Posted on 12/26/2017 1:31:20 AM PST by SteveH
According to a new report, Amazon employees appear to have been caught purchasing services from trafficked sex workers.
Engadget reports:
The tech industry has a clear history of sexism and misogyny, but a recent Newsweek report highlights another problem. The publication got its hands on a slew of emails sent to brothels and pimps between 2014 and 2016 that document the industrys patronage of brothels and purchasing of services from trafficked sex workers. Among the emails, which were obtained through a public records request to the King County Prosecutors Office, were 67 sent from Microsoft employee email accounts, 63 from Amazon accounts and dozens more from companies like Boeing, T-Mobile, Oracleand local Seattle tech firms.
Some of the emails were collected during a 2015 sting operation that targeted sex worker review boards and resulted in the arrest of 18 individuals, including high-level Amazon and Microsoft directors. Two opted for a trial, which is currently set to begin in March.
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The one thing that surprises me is that many are underage. I’ve never done polling on the topic, but I would have expected ages 18-21 to be in highest demand. I would also expect both customers and the places where the girls work to completely avoid children under 18, if for no other reason due to the higher legal penalties. Perhaps I’m overoptimistic or overly law-abiding.
Younger girls are easier to acquire and control.
No, it's not. It's a handful of employees from companies that have tens of thousands on staff who were caught trying to hire hookers during law enforcement entrapment scams.
Hookers generally start hooking in the 15-21 range, but are careful to tell their clients they’re 18+ if younger than 18. Prostitution is a pretty minor crime but underage prostitution is a major felony so there isn’t a lot of clientele for it outside the super rich and the drug alded poor.
I’d half-expect Amazon to have a page for buying hookers the way it has pages for buying anything else. You know, with the photo on the left that you can zoom in, a spec sheet, colors and sizes you can order. Reviews. What other customers wound up buying...
I’ve run a business, but I am totally clueless on that line of work. The idea of “controlling” employees disgusts me. My people delivered exceptionally high-quality products on schedule, or they would have needed to find a new job, but that was the limit of my control over them.
Implementation of Craigslist prototype?
Lots of people will work hard for their paycheck, and get a new job it they aren’t happy with the position. However, for all the propaganda that “sex work” is no different from a job as a bank teller, it really is different.
But can a sexbot make me a sammie?
If for $15,000 I get sex, intelligent answers, no Hallmark movies, no drama, beer on request, changeable looks, never divorce AND sammies, well now...
Alexa, get me the hookers and blow package.
Indeed. Every customer of a hooker works for someone, are all of their employers responsible?
It is indeed human trafficking. Assets seized, Bezos.
Interesting. You are suggesting legitimate business people are selling legal goods to cops at a sting operation. Possible. Possible.
We have a justice system for a reason. Use it.
"Human trafficking" is the new word for prostitution. They are used one in the same. If you go out and hire a hooker off the street corner for a BJ, you are engaging in human trafficking.
In the military, George W. Bush saw to it that human trafficking be added to the UCMJ so if a sailor in port goes out and gets himself a hooker for an hour, he can go to Leavenworth.
So when we read stories about human trafficking regarding sex workers, we are reading about the world's oldest profession, what used to be called plain old prostitution.
Expect a knock off at harbor freight in a few years for several hundred bucks.
ROFLOL
Not prostitutes, human trafficked sex slaves.
Because these 67 were either too arrogant, or too stupid, to use their own private email accounts.
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