"How much for the girl?"
Posted on 11/21/2018 6:35:53 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Facebook allowed a family in South Sudan to auction off a 16-year-old girl as a child bride last month, according to multiple reports.
The tech giant, which prohibits human trafficking on its platform, did not delete a post requesting payment for marriage to the girl until she was already married, CNN reported. The post reportedly went up on Oct. 25 and was taken down two weeks later.
ADVERTISEMENT The girl, whose identity is not publicly known, was married on Nov. 3 and has now gone into hiding in South Sudan's capital, the information minister of the country's Eastern Lakes state said in a statement, according to Business Insider.
"Any form of human trafficking — whether posts, pages, ads or groups is not allowed on Facebook," a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement, CNN noted. "We removed the post and permanently disabled the account belonging to the person who posted this to Facebook."
"We're always improving the methods we use to identify content that breaks our policies, including doubling our safety and security team to more than 30,000 and investing in technology," the spokesperson added.
Children's rights organization Plan International found that the girl's father received 500 cows, 3 cars and $10,000 in exchange for his daughter. Five men, including some "high-ranking government officials," bid on the girl, according to the organization.
"That a girl could be sold for marriage on the world's biggest social networking site in this day and age is beyond belief," George Otim, the country director for Plan International South Sudan, said in a statement. "This barbaric use of technology is reminiscent of latter-day slave markets."
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And I get 30 day suspension for calling a liberal a mental case.
But he will terminate your account if you post something about this!
It is not the duty of Facebook to impose western immorality on Sudan.
If Facebook wants to operate in /sudn, Facebook should respect local custom
Their practices result in their having a higher birthrate than the US white middle-class, where median age of first marriage for women is approaching 30. Sudan: 5.34 children born/woman (2018 est.) US: 1.87 (below replacement rate)
Perhaps we could learn from them?
Learn from them? Abject poverty and disease. No thanks.
Outside Herat, in a refugee camp, a CNN cameraman met Mamareen, who has lost her husband to the war, her home to the climate and now her daughter to the urgent need to feed her other children. Akila, 6, is now, under the warped economy of this tent city, the possession of another family. Mamareen sold Akila for $3,000 to Najmuddin, who has promised her to his 10-year-old son, Sher Agha."I fled my village with my three children because of severe drought," she says. "I came here thinking that I will receive some assistance, but I got nothing. To avoid starvation among my children, I gave my daughter to a man for about $3,000, but have only got $70 so far. I had no money, no food and no breadwinner -- my husband was also killed."
Unless we get the middle-class birth rate up, the US will eventually collapse.
But increasing the middle class birth rate is not in itself sufficient. A wife could eventually become brainwashed, brainwash the children, and get a divorce.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/22/asia/afghan-child-sales-intl/index.html
Mother had ‘no other choice’ but to sell her 6-year-old daughter
A higher birth rate is fine, but not like South Sudan.
The US middle class needs a birth rate of at least 2 kids per woman, preferably 3.
"How much for the girl?"
The left has been silent about the re-emergence of slavery in Muslim countries; apparently it is okay if no westerners are involved.
But beat up on white people today for something that happened 150 years ago.
That’s why the outrage and generational guilt mngeringbdirected towards whites is at least partly motivated by anti-white racism.
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