Call me old fashioned, but I still don't get these articles that consist of 10 copy-pasted tweets. Where's the content? Other than the press release and some comments from random people, this has 0 information content.
Does LinkedIn have a prostitution problem?
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#12Call me old fashioned, but I still don't get these articles that consist of 10 copy-pasted tweets. Where's the content? Other than the press release and some comments from random people, this has 0 information content.
And the tweets aren't even that good. Definite attempted (and failed) humor there. Everyone's a comedian.
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#13I had never thought of it before, but LinkedIn is a brilliant place for a escort to market their services. Lots of business travellers, who are often a middle-aged man travelling alone. The marks should have money, are likely to be disease and drug free, and probably these exchanges occur in a low risk environment such as a business traveler's hotel.
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#14so the real reason why prostitutes use linked in isn't to FIND new clients or to create networks of whores on linked in -- it's to verify that their clients aren't cops.
in a lot of places, prostitution is illegal, and clients and "service providers" alike are worried about the repercussions of getting caught. some are regular people who are trying to make money, or like their side alter ego, but don't particularly want their friends or family to find out.
getting busted is scary for both parties. in order to protect themselves, they resort to ID verifications of sorts and a variety of other practices to help them increase the odds that the person they're spending their time with is not an officer of the law.
a busy linked in profile, business cards, and a drivers license that all point to the same person is a pretty good sign that that person ACTUALLY has the job they claim and they're not a cop.
source: i love hookers.
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#15Aljazeera.com article a case for Betteridge's law of headlines?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
Re: Does LinkedIn have a prostitution problem?
#16I had never thought of it before, but LinkedIn is a brilliant place for a escort to market their services. Lots of business travellers, who are often a middle-aged man travelling alone. The marks should have money, are likely to be disease and drug free, and probably these exchanges occur in a low risk environment such as a business traveler's hotel.
The escorts definitely didn't miss the opportunity.
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#17I am speculating that the reason LinkedIn did it, is to get distanced from legal problems, not only in relation to prostitution laws (for example, Brazil says prostitution is allowed, but facilitating prostitution is not... LinkedIn was a facilitator? Also, several other countries have equally, or even more confusing laws on the subject), but also to law enforcement efforts against sex slavery and human trafficking.
I guess LinkedIn don't want the ball thrown on their court and be responsible for checking who is a real prostitute and who is a slave or a scammer.
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#18The title of the article raises a good question, though: what is the rationale for clamping down on this?
Have they had a real problem, or is it merely moralistic?
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#19so the real reason why prostitutes use linked in isn't to FIND new clients or to create networks of whores on linked in -- it's to verify that their clients aren't cops. in a lot of places, prostitution is illegal, and clients and "service providers" alike are worried about the repercussions of getting caught. some are regular people who are trying to make money, or like their side alter ego, but don't particularly w…
So there are people who are paid by the government to have sex with hookers and then arrest them?
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#20Call me old fashioned, but I still don't get these articles that consist of 10 copy-pasted tweets. Where's the content? Other than the press release and some comments from random people, this has 0 information content.
It's a lazy version of Man on the Street, which news used to do a lot. The difference being 1) laziness and 2) the ability to cherry pick to a much greater extent.