Obligatory disclaimer: Facebook has massive overreach, human trafficking is evil, etc... I love to hate on Facebook, but given the near ubiquity of Facebook, a

Obligatory disclaimer: Facebook has massive overreach, human trafficking is evil, etc... I love to hate on Facebook, but given the near ubiquity of Facebook, and the internet, is this Facebook's fault? Isn't this just a consequence of ubiquitous technology? There were so many different human technologies and inventions used in this tragedy, why lay the blame on Facebook, if we rewrote the headline, which of the following technologies are also to blame: A teenage girl in South Sudan was auctioned off using the World Wide Web A teenage girl in South Sudan was auctioned off using the Internet A teenage girl in South Sudan was auctioned off using DNS & TCP/IP A teenage girl in South Sudan was auctioned off using mobile phones A teenage girl in South Sudan was auctioned off using written and spoken human languages A teenage girl in South Sudan was auctioned off using money and the abstract concept of trade