Ask HN: If anyone could help me here, I cant find and article I read here

#1

Post by burnedouthacker » Thu, Apr 30, 2009, 3:53 AM UTC

The article had to do with modern slavery. Cant seem to find it using searchyc.com

Re: Ask HN: If anyone could help me here, I cant find and article I read here

#2

Post by tokenadult » Thu, Apr 30, 2009, 3:57 AM UTC

Maybe this one, found by a site-restricted Google search:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=550719

Re: Ask HN: If anyone could help me here, I cant find and article I read here

#3

Post by burnedouthacker » Thu, Apr 30, 2009, 4:08 AM UTC

tokenadult wrote: post #2

Maybe this one, found by a site-restricted Google search: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=550719

Thanks, but its not that one. :P It had to do with the possibility of being able to buy a person at caribbean islands for USD $500.

Re: Ask HN: If anyone could help me here, I cant find and article I read here

#4

Post by wmf » Thu, Apr 30, 2009, 4:45 AM UTC

Maybe this one: http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/Story?id=5326508

Re: Ask HN: If anyone could help me here, I cant find and article I read here

#5

Post by rms » Thu, Apr 30, 2009, 4:49 AM UTC

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4173

Is this it? Behind a paywall now, but you can probably get it somehow. I searched for human slavery across comments on searchyc.

Re: Ask HN: If anyone could help me here, I cant find and article I read here

#6

Post by tdoggette » Thu, Apr 30, 2009, 4:55 AM UTC

burnedouthacker wrote: post #3

tokenadult wrote: post #2

Maybe this one, found by a site-restricted Google search: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=550719

Thanks, but its not that one. :P It had to do with the possibility of being able to buy a person at caribbean islands for USD $500.

Was it about a book entitled "A Crime So Monstrous"?

Re: Ask HN: If anyone could help me here, I cant find and article I read here

#7

Post by burnedouthacker » Thu, Apr 30, 2009, 5:27 AM UTC

rms wrote: post #5

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4173 Is this it? Behind a paywall now, but you can probably get it somehow. I searched for human slavery across comments on searchyc.

Yeah, this is the one! Thanks :D