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by TobyTheDog123 878 days ago
I don't think that's what the commenter is claiming. I think they want to be able to sue the companies who indirectly benefit from this kind of spam, which is pretty ridiculous.

However, crypto has become such a menace to society that it's time that governments do something about it, if they even can at this point.
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gear54rus 878 days ago
Shall we sue banks for being mentioned in some scammy same-day loan ad too? Wouldn't that be a sight.

One person's menace is another person's salvation :)

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Animats 878 days ago
> I think they want to be able to sue the companies who indirectly benefit from this kind of spam, which is pretty ridiculous.

There's the legal concept of an implicit or implied conspiracy. Usually comes up in antitrust law, where sellers raise prices at about the same time without actually getting together to talk about it.[1][2] It's a difficult area of law.

[1] https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2...

[2] https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article...

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