One of England's top police officers, Shaun Sawyer, wants citizens to go after internet giants that have wronged them.
Sawyer, who is chief constable in Devon and Cornwall and is national lead for human trafficking and modern slavery, made the suggestion in an interview with The Sunday Times, published over the weekend.
In a paywalled article, he told the Murdoch organ that if someone is a victim of an “Internet-enabled crime”, they should sue the platform involved.
Describing the internet as a “safe space for organised crime”, he said Silicon Valley company abuses were “becoming a human injustice”.
The comments coincidentally (?) came after American authorities last week shuttered Backpage.com, a site accused of supporting human trafficking by allowing publication of advertisements for "escorts".
Sawyer believes platforms like Facebook need more policing, and he also criticised “liberal” laws.
So it's down to users, apparently: if people with the resources of the person in the street start suing the platforms, he argued, they would start using their resources to spot abuse.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 10 2018, @10:39PM
There are plenty of white people being enslaved, it just depends on location and who is involved. The amount of race on race slavery in the world is a lot higher, also slavery is not always so clearly defined. If you can't leave your job because your children would starve but your boss is a total bastard are you enslaved? There are a lot of wage slaves in India and the like, Saudi is apparently bad for it as well, but I am no expert.