He should be in prison. It makes me sad men who are such shameless openly conmen are not jailed.

Everybody call these guys conmen. They're not. To con somebody you actually have to make up a lie, you have to be creative and convincing. These guys are neither, they just take from people who gave up on thinking altogether.
They're as much conmen as a guy who takes candy from a baby is a master thief.

chinese army of conmen

I felt just as disgusted as the rest of you at the senseless racism and bigotry shown at the beginning. But I'm also troubled by that style of reporting. Of course we were outraged, that was the whole point of the report. A perfect example of this trend is Dateline NBC, it's nothing but outrage mongering. Three times a week you're shown that all repairmen will screw you, that your grandparents will be swindled by fast talking conmen, that everyone is a theif given the right opportunity and that your children will be molested by the internet.

Those are all important topics, and there are real concerns behind them. But the way they're reported is designed to entertain and enrage. And never seems to focus on useful statistics, or the efforts being made to address the problem. Also, the sheer ammount of fucking with strangers against their will seems unethical. Serously, no need to make teenage girls cry with your staged confrontations.

On the other hand it was really nice to see ordinary people defending a muslim woman. But I still don't like the minipulative and unscientific nature of these real life experements.