Wayfair trending on Twitter - Sex Trafficking?!

[SecretSquirreI]

Have you guys seen the stuff on Twitter about Wayfair products being named after missing children (a pillow case for $10k for example) and the theory it's human trafficking?

Blowing up the internet this evening.

Seems unlikely but is very very strange none the less!!

@PotholeParadise

Why is it tin foil hat? I’m a mother and it’s absolutely sickening you haven’t got any regards for this.. Sex trafficking Is very regal sadly and horrifying. Stop with the tin foil hat and have some sympathy for these children

Because child abusers aren't so stupid to do it in a way that could be spotted that easily and be accidentally uncovered just as easily. That's why.

Abducted children will be traded out of sight and no-one will find them by typing their real names into google.

I came across a facebook page that was full of young boys barely dressed and in provocative poses, it was horrible. It was clearly a pedophile site. 36000 likes. Thousands of comments. All men.

So no pedophiles are not hiding out of sight.. anymore.

There are people out there who believe in mole children and Hilary Clinton being a paedophile

Well I don’t know about mole children but Hilliary is getting battered on Twitter. She’s on the flight log to Epstein’s plane.

A lot of these conspiracy theories actually harm genuine sex abuse and trafficking victims.

Such victims are, near universally, from highly vulnerable backgrounds. The majority of trafficking victims are from countries with a high level of poverty, generally developing countries and former communist countries. The typical way a teenager or adult is trafficked is through being groomed into agreeing to travel to a Western country to take on a legitimate job as a secretary or nanny. Once they arrive they are told they owe huge fees to the trafficker (for the cost of transporting them, arranging the non-existent paperwork, housing them, etc.) and must work as prostitutes or domestic slaves to pay back these ever-increasing 'fees.' With younger children the traffickers present themselves as potential adopters or adoption agency staff, and groom the parents into agreeing to letting their children go in the belief they will be adopted and given a wonderful new life in Western Europe or America. The relatively small minority of Westerners who are trafficked are highly vulnerable and have no one looking out for them: kids in care, teen runaways, homeless. Again the tactics used are grooming and emotional manipulation.

The majority of media attention and conspiracy theories never mention teenage girls in Bangladesh or Moldova being groomed into accepting a 'job' that's really a front for forced prostitution. Or kids in care with no one looking out for them. They don't mention that most trafficking victims are groomed, not snatched. The focus is usually on white kids, Western kids, middle class kids. Violent abduction. Stranger abduction. In the 90s and 2000s there were all kinds of email hoaxes doing the rounds saying stuff like "Maisie-Joe, 38 from Ohio was abducted by human traffickers in a Walmart parking lot after she leaned into a car window to give them directions. If someone in a car stops you to ask for directions RUN AWAY!!! Please share to stop human trafficking abductions today!!" Nonsense. Not to mention the "Satanic Panic" elements of Pizzagate.

Compare Maddie McCann and the number of people convinced she was snatched to order by a trafficking gang, vs Virginia Giuffre (street homeless at 13) who actually was trafficked but was widely accused of being a liar or an attention-seeker who knew exactly what she was doing.

Trafficking isn't kids being snatched by strangers in vans, and it's not children being openly advertised on the Internet. It's systemic exploitation of the most vulnerable and powerless and a global capitalist society that commodifies human bodies. These theories spread dangerous misinformation.

I bet the people putting those photographs up of exploited children didn't tag them with their names though? That would make it a bit easy for someone to actually intervene.

Also that Russian search engine is well dodgy.

I think 98% of missing children are found within 48 hours. Most are teenagers.

Worth mentioning the Clever never goes campaign here

clevernevergoes.org/

Soooooo.......

Am a bit of a conspiracy buff but just to clarify I don't buy into much, alot of the reason is because I'm fascinated by the logic or lack of it in the majority of the cases that gain traction.

A friend of mine put me on to this just before I saw this thread, so I've done a bit of poking and my thoughts are:

1. As it's a third party drop shipping site it could host sellers doing dodgy stuff - I'm thinking coded listings rather than order a child online - however, the dark web exists for this sort of thing - so my jury is out on this. That said, companies can be off-shore, shell companies and be incredibly difficult to pinpoint sometimes as to how legitimate they are so again, who knows.

1. It could be some warped PR stunt - lets face it, this company is now trending all over the internet with the majority of people debunking and sympathising, and these days the bar is set pretty low when it comes to promoting business, especially big business. Be interesting to see where their share performance goes over the next few days.

1. It could be industrial espionage of some sort, a personal vendetta etc.

1. It could be a way to get internet providers and governments to crack down on "conspiracy theories" - as I understand it, corporations can sue against legislation they feel is directly affecting their business negatively or may do so in the future (I googled and found a few examples). So if they want tighter controls on internet content something like this might give an impetus for lobbying etc.

1. Is it a psy-op to determine how gullible we all are and how likely other outlandish ideas are to take hold that might actually cause proper instability in certain communities? This again might lead to moves to police internet activity for our own good.

1. Hiding in plain sight is a tactic used by criminals - the more confidently you behave while carrying out a theft the less likely you are to be questioned - for example, when my SD worked for the House of Fraser a couple of guys turned up in a lorry wearing overalls with clipboards and dockets and made off with a Capodimonte "Last Supper" - a massive ornament worth thousands just because they looked the part.

Anyhoo, it could be a glitch, there may be a grain of truth but as yet it seems impossible to find much other than hysteria and complete denial.

It plays into moral panics - think back to the RSA and Day Care scandals - this is reminiscent of that and paedophilia is very high profile and recognised as truly prevalent so it does create a perfect storm.

The world is so de-stabilised and divided right now - people want causes and certainties to cling to, plus a feeling of doing the right thing when what the right thing is exactly has become debatable.

I'm watching with interest.

Have we always had people this stupid?

I mean, like, really really unhinged mad?

Have we always had people this stupid?

Yes, it’s just that pre-internet they had a much more limited platform for their baseless ramblings, so they had to stand on street corners with a loud hailer

Have we always had people this stupid?

Have you met people?

Alien abductions, flat earthers, anti vaxxers, Michelle Obama is transgender, lizard people etc.

In the past, people who spouted crazed conspiracy theories mentioned their ideas to other people and those people just stared at them like . It was rare that they found a fellow traveller. Now the internet allows them to network without ever having to leave their bomb shelter full of tinned food and jars of their own urine.

Witch trials,cults,mass suicides, "exorcisms" and "home made" remedies with mercury and other shit, mob "justice".

It's nothing new. It wasn't even as lonely and eye brow rising as some people would like to believe.

I don't even know where to start with this

How did it originate?!

For something, anything, so outlandish to be beleiveable, there has to be elements of truth.

This one has got it in spades.
The names of the weirdly proceed furniture are missing girls names. Tick. That's true.
The sku numbers birmg up dodgy images on a dodgy website search engine. Tick
Criminals hide in plain sight. Tick
The world is crazy and crazy shit happens. This is crazy, but we all know crazy shit happens (global pandemic. Brits wearing masks. The government paying peoples wages not to work)Tick.

So, see, it's all true.

But then I read about that paedophilia political party in the 70s and can't beleive that was actually true. That was outlandish and hiding in plain sight. So then I think, who the fuck knows what's true, what's going on?

So whilst I seriously doubt that if you buy the ten grand industrial cupboard named after a missing a American girl, whose sku links to a trafficked girls image and that by clicking proceed to checkout that I'm going to get a vulnerable blond scrap of a teenager sent to me in a box marked 'this way up' I can see how this shit has legs.

But then I read about that paedophilia political party in the 70s and can't beleive that was actually true. That was outlandish and hiding in plain sight. So then I think, who the fuck knows what's true, what's going on?

I read about this group (before my time) & I was like wtf is this fake news?! Makes things confusing.

The trump administration admits it lost thousands of unaccompanied refugee children, many may have been picked up by child trafficking rings. I don't believe these missing children names relate to the actual child that is named, but I do believe that this may be a thing. Why have 5 different exorbitant but identical shower curtains with 5 different names? Something odd is going on at the very least.

Also Wayfair profited out of selling beds to child detention centres (where trump admits children have gone missing from). Connect the dots.

Hahaha!! You fact check on Snopes??? Haha then you must be properly stupid!!!

Who owns Snopes??

Of course it's true.

www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/06/25/wayfair-is-supplying-beds-texas-detention-centers-children-its-employees-are-protesting/%3foutputType=amp

Sadly there’s enough established ways trafficking people which don’t involve a big company listing a child under the guise of a pillowcase!

I'm sorry Bored but supplying beds to detention centres (legal) and supplying children to be abused (illegal) are not even remotely similar. It's not that odd that a furniture website would sell their beds to a paying customer, is it? Yes the customer and where the beds are used are abhorrent, but child trafficking? Really?

I just don't understand why people prefer to fight made up fantasies instead of real life crimes and injustices. Is it because fighting the "Elite" and the "Deep State" means you're some how powerless and don't actually have to do anything about it? Whereas opposing everyday domestic abuse, racism, child abuse and misogyny is just not "special" enough.

I can’t see why this is so unbelievable. The fact that so many children go missing each year, where do they go? Some of those girls names are extremely unusual, yet they’re selling stuff with these names attached to them. Not EVERYTHING is a conspiracy, and I don’t disbelieve stuff like that on the concept they wouldn’t be so open and brazen about it. They like to put it in plain sight.

theconversation.com/theres-a-conspiracy-theory-that-the-cia-invented-the-term-conspiracy-theory-heres-why-132117

Calling everyone a “conspirator” when they question something suspicious tends to shut down discussion.

So, all those who say they believe in this Wayfair stuff or who say there may be something to it, have you reported it to the appropriate authorities? If not, why not?

For something, anything, so outlandish to be beleiveable, there has to be elements of truth.

Really???

And PIE wasn't "hiding" at all - they were on national TV and in newspapers at the time.