Just like 'making drugs less available' via the stupid war on drugs worked wonders, right? Read about Rio de Janeiro and drug traffic there to see where it will ultimately lead. And seriously, fuck you. Many people make use of such services in a very non harming way. And that "all prostitutes have a pimp" thing happens BECAUSE we criminalize the activity. If we treat the job as any other and provide the same protections we do to other workers they can go and offer their work autonomously. They already do a lot thanks to the internet as I can attest personally as I have had quite fun times with awesome girls. No pimps involved.
"Lowering availability in theory lowers demand, make the product less desirable and more dangerous to try to get, and not available anywhere any time. Cut down the income, cut down the profits, and cut down the desire for pimps to try to make easy money."
Just... LOL. What world are you living in? Again, drugs. It only increases the profits exactly because you can charge a premium for the 'dangers' involved.
"willful ignorance isn't a great legal defense. Intentionally ignoring what others post on your site (save for section 230) would not be a very good legal defense."
You keep spewing that crap and you keep being wrong. CDA230 does not apply if the company is engaged in criminal activity. And general knowledge of criminal activity in your infra-structure is NOT enough to make you a criminal as many court decisions have ruled already. At least I don't see highways operators being sued for traffic going on their roads or gun makers being sold because their guns were used for murder. But of course you will keep spewing it even though you are capable of more than crap.
"Make it less desirable to be in the business, and perhaps they will rope in fewer girls."
Perhaps. Except reality says otherwise. Make it more available, make it properly regulated and give girls protection. Demand will be there and it won't be reduced and where there's high demand there is business even if you don't like it.
"It's not simple, but it is certainly better than doing nothing at all about a serious problem."
Right, what's the damage in blaming Facebook for people using it to engage in criminal activity? Shut it down already, the other hundreds and hundreds of millions that use it and see value in it be damned! Somebody posted videos against the law in Youtube? Shut the fucking thing down, all the people making money honestly and otherwise using it for nice purposes (like researching and studying as I often do) be damned! A whole freaking lot of adults like porn but because I am a complete idiot just let's shut down porn sites that rely on user generated content if some users post cp or the likes because fuck anybody that doesn't agree with me! Fuck the companies if they can't set up the magic filter I'm demand! Fuck them all, I am the king, I am the only important person in the world! - MyNameHere
So it's an epidemic like drugs have been for decades and you are willing to use flawed (and failed in the future) strategies to combat it just like the old war on drugs dragging socially accepted practices under it and generally just benefiting jail management business. Got it.
Yeah, we should just disband the government and let everybody fend for themselves and companies will magically create the perfect free market utopia. Amirite?
Watched any of those CSI stuff lately? There's a pattern: they take evidence out of questionable forensics (or thin air), they don't like when judges force them into due process because "people will die!" and they think they are the law. Arts aren't created in a vacuum. They usually build on reality.
Hard to blame Facebook alone for it. Central platforms can't possibly know and deal with every different country, minority, issue out there even if they are Facebook big and wealthy much like we can't be experts at multiple activities (ie: if you devote your time to be the best swimmer out there you can't possibly do the same with research at the same time, to excel at something you must focus).
I'm not entirely sure a platform that won't allow removal of content unless very high and collective bars are reached because minorities may actually be minorities in numbers instead of simple rights and respect issues like black people and the majority can still drown those. I believe we'll need a mix of a good system paired with better education and more tolerance. So we won't see a solution anytime soon.
Yes, if the merger is blocked under current regulations that deal with monopoly and the FCC doesn't roll back what has been put in place it will help a lot.
They should be DELIGHTED that people call everything velcro-like Velcro. Because other companies cannot display VELCRO in their products so when people go looking for VELCRO the only one that will have the brand in their products is... Velcro. No seriously, use my goddamn brand already!
The RIAA should be ashamed that it exists by now. It's attempt after attempt of bending laws and respective enforcement to their will. It's example after example of supporting tyranny and trampling of democratic mechanisms for their own corrupt enrichment. Actually, the whole MAFIAA should be ashamed of existing.
"trust, particularly for U.S. government participants in standardization, is now non-existent."
What was the saying?
You heap what you sow?
And that's true in many other aspects for the US government particularly and this saddens me because I know a few Americans and I personally feel that they (Americans as a whole) are better than that.
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Just like 'making drugs less available' via the stupid war on drugs worked wonders, right? Read about Rio de Janeiro and drug traffic there to see where it will ultimately lead. And seriously, fuck you. Many people make use of such services in a very non harming way. And that "all prostitutes have a pimp" thing happens BECAUSE we criminalize the activity. If we treat the job as any other and provide the same protections we do to other workers they can go and offer their work autonomously. They already do a lot thanks to the internet as I can attest personally as I have had quite fun times with awesome girls. No pimps involved.
"Lowering availability in theory lowers demand, make the product less desirable and more dangerous to try to get, and not available anywhere any time. Cut down the income, cut down the profits, and cut down the desire for pimps to try to make easy money."
Just... LOL. What world are you living in? Again, drugs. It only increases the profits exactly because you can charge a premium for the 'dangers' involved.
"willful ignorance isn't a great legal defense. Intentionally ignoring what others post on your site (save for section 230) would not be a very good legal defense."
You keep spewing that crap and you keep being wrong. CDA230 does not apply if the company is engaged in criminal activity. And general knowledge of criminal activity in your infra-structure is NOT enough to make you a criminal as many court decisions have ruled already. At least I don't see highways operators being sued for traffic going on their roads or gun makers being sold because their guns were used for murder. But of course you will keep spewing it even though you are capable of more than crap.
"Make it less desirable to be in the business, and perhaps they will rope in fewer girls."
Perhaps. Except reality says otherwise. Make it more available, make it properly regulated and give girls protection. Demand will be there and it won't be reduced and where there's high demand there is business even if you don't like it.
"It's not simple, but it is certainly better than doing nothing at all about a serious problem."
Better do nothing than make it worse.
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Or, you know, set up fake pages so the voyeurs at the DHS can.. hmm... play with themselves using it.
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I'm not entirely sure a platform that won't allow removal of content unless very high and collective bars are reached because minorities may actually be minorities in numbers instead of simple rights and respect issues like black people and the majority can still drown those. I believe we'll need a mix of a good system paired with better education and more tolerance. So we won't see a solution anytime soon.
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Ahem. Of course Trump will vociferate against this egregious abuse just like when Clinton did it, right, right?
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What was the saying?
You heap what you sow?
And that's true in many other aspects for the US government particularly and this saddens me because I know a few Americans and I personally feel that they (Americans as a whole) are better than that.
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Ahem. This is rather telling about the journalistic quality of this company.
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