[inetknght]

America does have laws against this kind of thing.

So instead of banning America, report the IP addresses to their American hosts for spam and malicious intent. If the host refuses to do anything, report it to law enforcement. If law enforcement doesn't do anything... then you're proving my point.

[dmantis]

So you are saying that if 95% of world population, including Chinese, Russians, etc reports American bot farm to American police, somebody would really review that and go after Americans?

BTW, how they should report it, if they are a small business/physical person without lawyers? Does US police have some kind of online hotline to report US criminals for foreigners or smth?

[inetknght]

It's almost as if there should be an international body of laws which covers fraud...

[dmantis]

That's not feasible for bots, crawling, IP laws, etc.

Strict fraud could be handled, but everything above is really different per jurisdiction by obvious reasons. There is nothing clearly good or bad in bots, or e.g. pirates, it depends on particular cultural perception. And if one nation thinks that the action is not a crime, it doesn't make sense to them to prosecute such actions for foreign requests.

[inetknght]

One problem at a time. A lot of the malicious activity of bots/crawling/etc hide behind plain fraud.

Combat fraud first so you can start to really identify the other more troublesome troublemakers.

Bots? Declare the owner. Lie about the owner? Fraud.

Crawling? Bots.

Intellectual property? That's an entire whole other industry.

[portaouflop]

How are you gonna force law enforcement to enforce the laws?

[inetknght]

Thanks for finding my point!