That sentence annoys the heck out of me. As in- somehow - his actions should be vilified, yet the scammers ON THE VIDEO are provided the benefit of "allegations" against them?
It's very clear to me that we have lost trust in our public institutions because they have failed us. It is trivial, given a lack of a certain moral compass, to set up an international call center scam like the one in this story. I receive at least 3-4 of these calls per day on my own phone - the scale is absolutely immense. And yet the person who successfully reveals the depravity of what these people do is the one who is the criminal? To that I say let the scammers try and sue him.
If the governments can't or don't have the will to solve the problem, I say let the people do it for them. Before you accuse me of advocating for vigilante justice, there is precedent for this sort of thing: the TCPA, passed by Congress in 1991, provides for a Private Right of Action against these telephone scammers - meaning that private individuals have the right to sue the scammers, rather than waiting for collective government action. However, this no longer works with the international scale of modern phone scams.
It's a classic tragedy of the commons. The cost of making phone calls over VoIP is basically zero at this point. I believe that the solution is simple: first, make the economics work against the scammers by making VoIP more expensive and use those funds to create an abuse reporting and enforcement mechanism; second, make the source of all phone calls completely transparent to end-users (or at least power-users). VoIP abuse must be taken seriously otherwise there will be no public telephone network left for the rest of us. It'll just be a bunch of bots calling each other and us- what a dystopia.