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I don't know why you are saying this, because all I did was say we should stop slavery. Whether or not we protect copyright or whatever, we definitely should st

I don't know why you are saying this, because all I did was say we should stop slavery. Whether or not we protect copyright or whatever, we definitely should stop slavery. Taking down a post isn't stopping slavery, it's insulating elite Westerners like myself from being aware that slavery is actually happening. Up until today I was aware of piratebay, copyright issues, etc because it has impacted my life. I was unaware that in some places it was still accepted practice to not only enslave people but to publicly post about it. I imagine a lot of the people who work at the social media companies are similar to myself in that respect.

CapricornNoble 7y ago
I really wonder what sort of information sources people are exposing themselves to for "slavery still exists, and tech platforms are used to facilitate it" to be a revelation. I just don't understand the news-browsing/discovery experience of educated, tech-savvy people who somehow don't even stumble upon global news websites with tons of articles about all the bad shit that happens worldwide, and that it's not isolated incidents but PREVALENT and normal in some places.
SllX 7y ago
Last I heard, today’s global slave trade makes the Transatlantic Slave Trade at its peak look like a drop in the bucket. I don’t know if that comparison is accurate, but slavery never died in the world, it merely became illegal. https://sfpublicpress.org/news/2012-02/human-trafficking-is-a-growing-global-scourge https://sfpublicpress.org/news/2012-02/human-trafficking-is-...