News
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
view the rest of the comments
Was the chase worth it? Dipshits.
Possibly. How many more children would this dirt bag sell into the sex trade? One? Fifty? At what point is it "worth it" to pursue justice.
Can you give me a hypothetical sex traffic victim to dead person person conversion table?
Asking for some Austin cops…
50 to 1
If law enforcement actually wanted to tackle the trafficking problem in Houston, they would go after the outlets.
All it takes is a quick search on rubmaps.com to see where you can buy sex, right now, in Houston.
After that, they can go after people on Tryst. It's such an open secret because there is so much money being passed around.
Human trafficking is integral to Houston's economy and culture. They won't do anything about it because they don't want to.
The only solution to make sex work safer in Houston is to legalize it. Which they also won't do because they're "better than that" and legalization would result in better treatment of workers at the expense of employers.
Why do you think children were sold into sex slavery here? This is just about illegal migration. Why do you weirdos assume everything is about raping children?
Do you have any concept of what human smuggling actually means? Educate yourself for five whole minutes and then come back and tell me what you found out. You think people in Georgia are actually still buying slaves to work the land? Surprise, weirdo, there are a shitload of pedophiles and sex abusers in every developed nation who purchase children to that end. Usually they work somewhere in the highest tiers of government.