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Amazon and Microsoft Directors Charged in Prostitution Sting (kiro7.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A director from Microsoft and a former Amazon director have been charged with promoting prostitution after an investigation into Seattle-area sex trafficking, according to a local news report. Investigators say the director of worldwide health for Microsoft submitted over 70 reviews of prostitutes that he had allegedly hired since April 2012, according to the report, while the director of software development at Amazon, who worked on Fire TV, "allegedly hired prostitutes at least 29 times through The Review Board and TheLeague.Net, according to court documents." Both men have pleaded not guilty and are free on $75,000 bail, part of a group of 19 people now facing criminal charges. "These defendants, we allege, were absolutely devoted to the commercial sexual exploitation of vulnerable, powerless immigrant women," King County Prosecutors said in January, adding that the women, who were forced into prostitution to pay off debts to organized crime bosses in Asia, are not being charged.
Last January a Seattle newspaper reported that one alleged brothel owner "previously had made his living off illegal marijuana grows, but moved into prostitution when the drug was legalized."
Last January a Seattle newspaper reported that one alleged brothel owner "previously had made his living off illegal marijuana grows, but moved into prostitution when the drug was legalized."
Prosecutorial overreach. The prosecutor will probably be running for office soon and is trying to make a name for himself/herself.
"Be particularly skeptical when presented with evidence confirming what you already believe." -
So you read the part about these being trafficked women, right? They'll have to provide the evidence about that in court to hold-up these charges as they are. Whether or not you like it, a LOT of "chose this career" women are actually forced into it. A TON of the women in the US that do this for a career are started involuntarily, very young, and find themselves with no options later (no education, training, or normal socialization). It's no secret that Asia has, however, immense problems like this: go to any of the "Maid Cafes" on Akhibara street in Japan and 99% of the time those are forced prostitutes paying off their (or a family member's) debts. Entirely illegal...mobsters don't care. I say that as a guy who knows someone running an online cam business who gets mob threats literally going something like "you're disrupting our debt-collection business b**ch, you better stop if you know what's good for you."
Where I live, prostitution is legal. And, until, a few years ago, it was legal at 16. You know what brothel-owners _and_ customers though about 16 year olds working as prostitutes? To young, too inexperienced, too self-centered, and generally unfit for the job. They did not want them. Hence there were only very rare instances of 16 year olds trying it in the first place. The whole thing about "most starting at a very young age" is a blatant lie, as there is no demand. The actual average age of starting is around 21 in the US and ones starting below 18 are very, very rare. Same with "women being forced into it". This works so badly that even the Italian Mafia has stopped doing it ages ago. The ones forced into it are not doing a good job (obviously) and hence fetch prices so low the whole thing is more hassle than it is worth. In addition, the person reporting a prostitute forced into it to the police is usually her first or second customer, because men are not total scum and notice when something is amiss.
The things you apparently believe are the outgrow of perverted and deranged fantasies, not any accurate description of actual reality.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
If prostitution was legal, then human trafficking drops to zero (or so close that it's not really measureable). So as pointed out, it's the government that makes trafficking happen. Since NZ legalized prostitution, there have been no cases of human trafficking. The black market only exists because the government requires it.
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New Zealand, most of Australia and large segments of Europe all have legal sex work. Even in places like Belgium where it is technically illegal, it's tolerated with famous red light districts like the one in Antwerp.
The only thing sad about this situation, is that it's still illegal in America (except for parts of Nevada)
I love the way they portray hookers as victims.
Just helpless little women who made $300 an hour and were lured into the business by baaaad white men.
God SJW's are hilariously stupid.
They are screwed that is for sure.
Humans that are not controlled (at least at times) by their genitals? I guess there are not that many. Men want to have sex, women want to have kids. Those humans that do not have such urges do not procreate and thus their genes are not passed over.
The whole thing is just as silly as war on drugs and other idiocies coming from the prudes in US of A. When one reads this one wonders for what A really stands for....
Ooooch and the poor women - I would be surprised if these poor women the two hired can be indeed qualified as poor. But this is the same BS as the recent article in TE claiming with big letters big gender pay gap where in fact in the article they clearly show that such gap does not exist while claiming the opposite. All PC propaganda. I wonder how long do we have to tolerate such nonsense?
Well, they *are* vulnerable, because they operate outside the law and can be exploited by criminals You don't think that a prostitute you've paid $300 gets to keep that money? Almost all of that goes to the pimp.
Freelancing women are targets for beatings by pimps because they threaten the pimp's income. And what are they supposed to do, go to the cops and say "This guy is trying to steal my prostitution business?"
Once a prostitute is in the clutches of a pimp, she's not free to leave to business either. Even if she wants to move to a different city, if the pimp keeps her in place by threats to her friends and family.
And not every prostitute is a prostitute by choice. There are runaways who fall into a pimp's control; rural foreigners who are tricked into thinking they're immigrating to the US for a high-paying (by their standards) domestic service job.
Understand I have no issues with prostitution per se, but I have a big problem with slavery, and in any system where prostitutes operate outside the protection of the law it's a given that most of them are de facto slaves.
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