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Hello, Why Doesn’t the U.S. Implement These Simple Security Measures!
When raising children, its popular to give them the “freedom to explore”, while setting the proper “boundaries”. Using our Democratic Capitalism as a larger example, we want to give ourselves the freedom to innovate and compete, without the contaminations of cheating, lying, extortion, and piracy (which I’m going to collectively call “CLEP”). Sounds simple right? Yet for some reason, our society allows some appalling “freedoms” that seem to benefit CLEP, at the expense of honest citizens. There are actually some simple solutions to the problems of CLEP, part political and part technical, but good luck implementing them (which implies that some powerful forces, foreign and domestic, are behind CLEP).
Problem #1: Unregistered Phone Numbers: Just about all crime is conducted using “burner” phones (think “Breaking Bad” here, drug dealers etc who use a cheap, unregistered phone, then throw it away). Lately, you’re probably also getting many scam phone calls using burner accounts for a) Unwanted solicitors b) Phishing scams. So why not just require everyone to register their phones, right? But wait! This is America, and that would infringe upon someone’s right to privacy (in this case, criminals), and you’d be surprised to learn how legislators have tried and failed to even place the slightest restrictions on unregistered phones…
