Saturday, March 01, 2025

Starlink Is Keeping Modern Slavery Compounds Online

A WIRED investigation reveals that criminals who make billions from scam compounds in Myanmar"where tens of thousands of people are enslaved"are using Starlink to get online.

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 02:32 PM | 7 COMMENTS | permalink

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Hundreds of foreign nationals pulled out of scam compounds in Myanmar during a crackdown on centers run by criminal gangs have little food, scant healthcare and filthy toilets in the remote militia camp they have been taken to, two detainees said reut.rs/4bnWj0f

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-- Reuters (@reuters.com) February 28, 2025 at 8:19 AM

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We live now in the, 'whatever is profitable is legal' world of crass capitalism.

Which only gets worse from here.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-02-27 11:13 AM

Instead of using the system to help hunt down criminals and defend democracies, Elon would prefer to prop up dictators and let criminals run amuck.

#2 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2025-02-27 11:54 AM

Keeping in line with their apartheid origins.

#3 | Posted by fresno500 at 2025-03-01 03:59 PM

Instead of using the system to help hunt down criminals and defend democracies, Elon would prefer to prop up dictators and let criminals run amuck.

prop up dictators and let criminals run amuck. (i.e. ukraine)

The best irony writes itself.

#4 | Posted by itchypossum at 2025-03-01 06:49 PM

----------- supports this.

thehill.com

#5 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-03-01 07:22 PM

He's a billionaire ... when you know the right people who just give you money, you can be a billionaire too.

#6 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-03-01 11:03 PM

Capitalism at it's conclusion.

#7 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2025-03-02 03:58 PM

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