I am sure if this is successful one of the 65+ rep people will repeat it and they will get hundreds of entries. The chances of me producing the fall out you are screaming wolf over is slim to none.
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I am sure if this is successful one of the 65+ rep people will repeat it and they will get hundreds of entries. The chances of me producing the fall out you are screaming wolf over is slim to none.
I would actually have to be making an invalid claim of something that's not true for it to be "crying wolf."
I'm simply pointing out that the results of this could have some serious and unpleasant fallout for the platform as a whole. I'm not even saying that such fallout isn't inevitable – it very well may be completely unavoidable. At the very least, someone is going to notice that they can get ass loads of upvotes (and as a result increased reputation, increased SP, and increased steem) for showing their tits and more.
I'm honestly rather shocked that it hasn't happened to any noticeable level, yet. That might be a side effect of discoverability on Steemit being a steaming pile, but that's an entirely different discussion.
Once that door is open we start getting into the rather sticky issue of the fact that most governmental entities and quite a lot of people are uncomfortable with "human trafficking," which is a polite way of referring to "sex work I don't like."
Could Steemit and its ilk be broadly tarred as houses of ill repute as their primary purpose? Given the eagerness with which cryptocoin in general is painted as the "coin of the realm" for terrorism and criminal activity (despite the fact that most criminals really prefer money that they can spend), it's really easy to see it happen.
Maybe most of the people with Rep 65+ have the good sense to avoid putting their foot in that particular trap. They're not the ones are worried about. The trap is a lot broader and more stupid than that.
rather "sex work the worker doesn't like" - but who cares about such subtleties when money can be made...
Most of the major "human trafficking" stings that have been executed in the US in recent years haven't targeted people who are being compelled to be on the street or in the brothel, but rather people who are choosing the best of a bad set of options, by and large.
I don't particularly want to be sitting behind a desk working for someone else 40 hours a week but no one would refer to that as "engineer trafficking" just because I don't particularly like it but do it because the money is good and I like the things that money can buy me.
But maybe they should!
If we really want to broaden the idea of "human trafficking" to mean "sex work the worker doesn't like", it probably would be a good idea to change the law so that they're not the ones who are being punished. Unless you mean to imply that people who do jobs that they don't like should be punished by the coercive power of the State for making that decision.
To be very clear – that is not what I think that you mean to say, it's only what you can be interpreted to be saying.
Of course it's different when the person chooses the job. The general definition for trafficking requires a trafficker.
| Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others.
Which is a vanishingly small slice of the sex worker pie (pun intended), and very, very few of those prosecuted are actually engaged in coerced activity.
Now, it's a great claim to make if you get caught because it's very hard for your pimp or coordinator to prove they weren't coercing you. You can angle for leniency from the system and stick it to your boss, and who doesn't like that?
At present, prosecution only requires the suspicion of trafficking, and that's an actual problem.
Yes and the flood gates are bound to open once people point out the flaw, kind of like vote buying. It started small, a few felt inclined to point it out and how it could affect the platform and that effect is what followed but it was small and unnoticed until broadcast as a what if. You're pointing out the what if and stating how money could be made and people exploited. Great job planting that seed in public.
I can guarantee, no one needed me to point that out as a potential way of leveraging the system.
I've worked in operating system security before. I know that if you don't point out the flaws in the system in public, the odds that such a system gets fixed – especially if the issue is subtle – is minor. Given that this flaw is inherent to the system at an architectural level, there's absolutely no reason for me to take on board any sort of guilt for talking about it.
I am, after all, not going to be the one labeled a procurer.
You, on the other hand – it's your pseudonym at the top of the post. If anyone should be patted on the back and thanked for sticking their head in the oven, turning on the gas, and waiting for someone to walk by with a lit match, it's you.
So… Congratulations! You've achieved something!
Thank you for your wisdom, wise one. I've been on the internet since before your trailer had internet. You really don't understand how scammers work. I'm done with this conversation, I can't keep talking below my intelligence level. Feel free to continue.
Are you suggesting that you're a scammer? Because I was going to absolutely give you the benefit of the doubt. I guess I can't do much about a direct admission, though.
And for your information, my trailer had Internet long before the web existed. Modems. Look them up, kid. They're technology.
I suppose it will make two of us who will be glad you stop talking below your intelligence level. When you're ready to engage at an adult level, let me know. Until then, I think I have to agree with you – we're done here.
Lex, you look like you may be sporting a pretty big pair of man boobs. Are you going to enter?
No, I may hate humanity and despise all that they stand for – but there are certain levels of torment that not even I will enact on a captured audience.
No one deserves that kind of horror. No one.
Count you and your species very lucky.