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Child bride auctioned on Facebook in 'barbaric use of technology'
CNN ^ | November 20, 2018 | Bianca Britton

Posted on 11/20/2018 4:21:10 PM PST by lowbridge

Facebook has come under fire for a "barbaric use of technology" that allowed the sale of a child bride to be held on its site.

An auction was held on the social media platform for a 16-year-old girl in South Sudan which sought payment for her hand in marriage.

Facebook said the post was taken down as soon as the company learned of it, but that wasn't until after the girl was married.

According to children's rights organization Plan International, the girl was bid on by five men, some of whom were reportedly high-ranking South Sudanese government officials.

Activists are concerned that this auction -- for which the father reportedly received 500 cows, three cars and $10,000 in exchange for his daughter -- could inspire other families to use social media sites to receive larger payments.

Plan International's country director in South Sudan, George Otim, said: "That a girl could be sold for marriage on the world's biggest social networking site in this day and age is beyond belief."

He added: "This barbaric use of technology is reminiscent of latter-day slave markets."

Removed from Facebook 15 days after being posted

Facebook told CNN that its platform was used for the bidding, which started on October 25, and that it removed the post on November 9 -- 15 days later.

"Any form of human trafficking -- whether posts, pages, ads or groups is not allowed on Facebook. We removed the post and permanently disabled the account belonging to the person who posted this to Facebook," a company spokesperson said in a statement.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: facebook; islam; koranimals; muslim; muslims; obamalegacy; slavery; sudan
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Apparently Facebook moves much faster only when it comes to banning or suspending conservatives.
1 posted on 11/20/2018 4:21:10 PM PST by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

15 Days for a child bride posting to be removed.

Post a selfie in a MAGA hat and it will be gone in 10 seconds.

Facebook sucks. And anyone who uses the platform is knowingly enriching the enemy.


2 posted on 11/20/2018 4:23:16 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (Fascism and socialism are cousins. They both disarm their citizens.)
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To: lowbridge
500 cows, three cars and $10,000

You'd think it would have been pulled for blatant capitalism in minutes.

3 posted on 11/20/2018 4:25:00 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: lowbridge

Wow. “500 cows, three cars and $10,000.” Must be a good looking young lady.

That’s the Muslim way!


4 posted on 11/20/2018 4:25:02 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

You beat me by two seconds.


5 posted on 11/20/2018 4:25:36 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: lowbridge

FIFTEEN DAYS it was up?!?!?!

And they didn’t notice it?????

Total and unadulterated BS.


6 posted on 11/20/2018 4:28:03 PM PST by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: lowbridge

I remember all the right people talking about independence for South Sudan. How is that working out? A ****hole whether ruled from Khartoum or what ever armpit the new capital is.


7 posted on 11/20/2018 4:29:53 PM PST by C19fan
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To: lowbridge
Child bride auctioned on Facebook in 'barbaric use of technology'...

...An auction was held on the social media platform for a 16-year-old girl in South Sudan

Just sayin', I'm pretty sure there's nobody in South Sudan who would consider a 16-year old girl to be a child.

8 posted on 11/20/2018 4:31:08 PM PST by Drew68 (Twitter @TheRealDrew68 // Click my profile page for great Russian pop music videos.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim

at least they got a fair price


9 posted on 11/20/2018 4:38:34 PM PST by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: lowbridge

Well, for an outfit that calls itself liberal enough to hate making people into property, it sure took its time to move.


10 posted on 11/20/2018 4:39:29 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: lowbridge
p38

Jake Blues missed Facebook by 30 years.

11 posted on 11/20/2018 4:39:48 PM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: Drew68

True enough... by the local customs she’s a young adult already. 21 year old adulthood is an artifact of modern Western society.

Maybe this is okay as long as the husband swears to support her all his life.


12 posted on 11/20/2018 4:41:37 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: lowbridge

Apparently under Islam women are property that can be legitimately bid for.


13 posted on 11/20/2018 4:49:29 PM PST by Yulee
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To: Yulee

On the other side of it, it looks like her parents will not have to worry about a dowry, or about her getting a rich husband. Whether he’ll be a jerk, is another question.


14 posted on 11/20/2018 4:52:32 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: Cicero
Wow. “500 cows, three cars and $10,000.” Must be a good looking young lady.

And to think I paid a huge amount for my daughter's wedding, and gave a huge amount of money to the couple towards a down payment for a home - and received nothing from the groom or his family. Although I don't know what I would do with a cow let alone 500 cows.

15 posted on 11/20/2018 5:06:47 PM PST by roadcat
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To: Yulee
How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.

The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.

No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilization of ancient Rome.

— Sir Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages 248-50 [London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899]).

16 posted on 11/20/2018 5:11:24 PM PST by null and void (Those who make change through the vote impossible make changes by force inevitable)
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To: lowbridge

I used the term “Muzzy” and my account was suspended for like two weeks

Child Bridge auction, no punishment

Fakebook is so great!


17 posted on 11/20/2018 5:13:31 PM PST by Trump.Deplorable
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To: lowbridge

And 16 is very old in the Muzzy world

They tend to marry them off when they are 10-14

This is one has expired, father wanted too much, 500 cows? 3 cars? and 10 grand?

That guy was a dreamer in muzzy land


18 posted on 11/20/2018 5:15:49 PM PST by Trump.Deplorable
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To: Red in Blue PA
"Facebook sucks. And anyone who uses the platform is knowingly enriching the enemy."

Yes, exactly.

I have worn myself out posting and reposting this. Finally I got a private email after this recent repost, telling me he had watched The Social Network with his new wife, and after the movie ended, they both closed their FB accounts late that night!

Once again, I urge fellow Freepers to watch "The Social Network", the well-written, smartly-produced story of weaponized autism and the owner of said autism:

"A copiously godless, evil, misanthropic sob who yesterday, today, and tomorrow sold your granular, atomized most-private disclosures about your health, your finances, your desires, your risk-taking, your goals -- to your insurance company, your credit card companies, lawyers, researchers, and most insidiously & in extreme contravention of the 4th Amendment -- the U. S. Government."

Please watch this movie and at least consider dumping Facebook:



19 posted on 11/20/2018 5:37:37 PM PST by StAnDeliver ("Mueller personally delivered US uranium to Russia.")
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To: lowbridge

If she came with a MAGA cap, it’d have been yanked within 5 minutes.


20 posted on 11/20/2018 5:38:47 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know. how people are infected with Ebola.")
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