Facebook animal trade exposed in Thailand
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Countries can't let Facebook get a free pass on these things just because they're Facebook.
Such a colossal platform is given leniency all around under the "we have too much content to police effectively" model.
although these things can be correlated, use of client-attorney privilege stonewalls a lot of pencil-pusher investigations and protects the entity from sanctions
If you think this is an accident, let me remind you that I’ve personally reported a lot of posts breaking their community guidelines and none of them were deleted.
I would bet good money the offending posts were also reported plenty of times but no action was taken because it’s easier for FB to just close their eyes and pretend the problem doesn’t exist.
I think many policing operations work like this. I used to work for a security company and we had a building across the street from an illegal brothel. I asked my supervisor why the police didn't shut it down and he basically echo'd what I wrote above; that if they bust it, it moves somewhere else in the city. If the police need to talk to one of the girls or the madame for some intel on another case, they have to go hunting for it again.
Police can track this people on the obscure/shady platforms if they want to catch them.
They absolutely can track the traffickers elsewhere, but they are here on facebook now and if the facebook groups go away, they need to find them again. That costs time and money. Is your hate for facebook so strong that you are blind to this?
Yet they left the illegal (and malicious) stuff up, and benefited financially from the inflated numbers.
Does it matter if that was literally said out loud, or not?
Having illegal things on a general-purpose platform is another thing. This can encourage a broad chunk of people to break the law, sometimes even unknowingly. This is way worse than the Backpage scenario.