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For animal trading, if you ban them off facebook, they go elsewhere and then you need to hunt them down again. Better to leave them up, figure out who they are,

by jbob2000 8y ago

For animal trading, if you ban them off facebook, they go elsewhere and then you need to hunt them down again. Better to leave them up, figure out who they are, get as close as you can to the top, then arrest everyone in one big operation. Don't blame facebook right away, they may have been instructed to keep these groups around. I think many policing operations work like this. I used to work for a security company and we had a building across the street from an illegal brothel. I asked my supervisor why the police didn't shut it down and he basically echo'd what I wrote above; that if they bust it, it moves somewhere else in the city. If the police need to talk to one of the girls or the madame for some intel on another case, they have to go hunting for it again.

simion314 8y ago
I think if you don't allow selling of illegal stuff on FB then you reduce the customer size because the seller needs to find some less popular platform, this means less sales so less illegal activity. Police can track this people on the obscure/shady platforms if they want to catch them.
- jbob2000 8y ago
  Nobody at facebook is saying to themselves "yup, keep the illegal stuff around, we need the numbers". That's such a farce, you clearly just have a hate-on for facebook. The article is about 12 facebook groups. Twelve! Wow. So many users. They absolutely can track the traffickers elsewhere, but they are here on facebook now and if the facebook groups go away, they need to find them again. That costs time and money. Is your hate for facebook so strong that you are blind to this?
  - potempkin_TOS 8y ago
    > Nobody at facebook is saying to themselves "yup, keep the illegal stuff around, we need the numbers". Yet they left the illegal (and malicious) stuff up, and benefited financially from the inflated numbers. Does it matter if that was literally said out loud, or not?
  - simion314 8y ago
    Did you read the comment I replied too, the comment was advocating that we should allow illegal shit on FB because is easy to catch the criminals.
LargeWu 8y ago
This is exactly what happened when backpage got shut down. Police lost all their leads on illegal sex trafficking, but did not have any meaningful impact on the illegal market - it just moved to another venue.

simion314 8y ago

I think if you don't allow selling of illegal stuff on FB then you reduce the customer size because the seller needs to find some less popular platform, this means less sales so less illegal activity. Police can track this people on the obscure/shady platforms if they want to catch them.

jbob2000 8y ago
Nobody at facebook is saying to themselves "yup, keep the illegal stuff around, we need the numbers". That's such a farce, you clearly just have a hate-on for facebook. The article is about 12 facebook groups. Twelve! Wow. So many users. They absolutely can track the traffickers elsewhere, but they are here on facebook now and if the facebook groups go away, they need to find them again. That costs time and money. Is your hate for facebook so strong that you are blind to this?
- potempkin_TOS 8y ago
  > Nobody at facebook is saying to themselves "yup, keep the illegal stuff around, we need the numbers". Yet they left the illegal (and malicious) stuff up, and benefited financially from the inflated numbers. Does it matter if that was literally said out loud, or not?
- simion314 8y ago
  Did you read the comment I replied too, the comment was advocating that we should allow illegal shit on FB because is easy to catch the criminals.

LargeWu 8y ago

This is exactly what happened when backpage got shut down. Police lost all their leads on illegal sex trafficking, but did not have any meaningful impact on the illegal market - it just moved to another venue.