[HN Gopher] Salesforce.com Must Face Texas Victims over Sex-Traf...
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Salesforce.com Must Face Texas Victims over Sex-Trafficking
Author : marshray
Score : 19 points
Date : 2021-03-24 19:25 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.bloomberg.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.bloomberg.com)
| renewiltord wrote:
| Hmm, something is wrong with this. Surely Backpage's catering
| company isn't in trouble too? Or their hosting company, etc.?
| Their ISP?
| marshray wrote:
| > U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen in Houston ruled that the
| women's claims should proceed because there's evidence
| Salesforce.com continued selling customer-relationship management
| tools and services to the internet ad company after law
| enforcement publicly accused it of running a nationwide online
| brothel.
|
| So the police publicly accusing you of doing something harmful to
| others now means the power and phone companies have to
| immediately cut off your service lest they become liable?
|
| That's not how it's supposed to work. Am I reading this wrong?
| bramblerose wrote:
| It's a badly written article (is this a civil or a criminal
| case?), but my reading is that because of these facts the case
| was not immediately dismissed. Which does not mean Salesforce
| is liable, just that they need to show up for an actual trial.
| setr wrote:
| It's beyond ridiculous -- there's no reason not to keep
| cascading that reasoning into everything. Any business that
| serviced backpage is a sex-traffic supporter; Any business that
| serviced a business that serviced to backpage is also a sex-
| traffic supporter.
|
| You could even make the case that the US government itself, in
| not immediately and totally eliminating backpage from existence
| upon public accusation, and thus allowing its continued
| operation, is a sex-traffic supporter. And of course, every
| government that provides services to the US government. And
| even the taxpayer, who didn't refuse to pay tax this year to a
| government in support of sex trafficking, have also supported
| the backpage operation.
| glasss wrote:
| I can see an argument being made about the payment processing
| services being directly beneficial to facilitating the
| trafficking that was taking place. But I don't think it's a good
| one.
|
| I think it's unreasonable for Salesforce to be expected to keep
| up with all of the news or accusations, legal or otherwise, about
| their clients.
| sn_master wrote:
| Archive Link: https://archive.is/k9XpS
| sn_master wrote:
| When the government wants a website down, they ask the domain
| controller to take down the domain. If Backpage was guilty, the
| government should have just asked everyone to stop providing
| services to them.
|
| Backpage had many legit sections like Craigslist for trading used
| items and jobs, and there were not any explicit indicators that
| the girls were not offering their services voluntarily like many
| other websites that are active to this day.
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