Socio-Politico Rants.
Yeah, and all those guys who participate in the Asian Sex Trade pretends it’s all good nature and makes it funny and some people continue to support people like that and talks human rights, talk about open discussion on China. This is how ugly it can be. Women being sold on the net, you would think it was a slave auction or something.
By Lisa Baertlein
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Online marketplace eBay Inc. (Nasdaq:EBAY – news) on Friday said it had removed from its Web site a listing that offered three young Vietnamese women for auction and will report the person who posted it to local authorities.
The listing, which said the women were for shipment only to Taiwan, “was an egregious violation of not only eBay policies but also the law,” eBay spokesman Hani Durzy told Reuters.
“It was pulled as soon as we were aware of it. Anything illegal is against our policies. There is absolutely no room for human trafficking” on the site, said Durzy.
EBay also has suspended the poster, who originally listed the women for auction on eBay Taiwan, he said.
Durzy said he was not certain of the dates the posting appeared on eBay, which is a popular venue for bidding on and shopping for myriad items — from cars to collectibles.
A screenshot of the listing provided by the National Congress of Vietnamese Americans showed that it was first posted on March 2.
Hung Nguyen, the group’s president, said advocacy groups wrote to eBay demanding that the item be pulled down when it came to their attention on March 5.
Such activities “really concern us,” said Nguyen, who commended eBay for its quick response.
EBay, along with its community of users, keeps a constant watch on listings and reports cases of illegal activities to law enforcement.
The State Department has said Taiwan is a source, transit and destination point for people trafficked for sexual exploitation and forced labor. Victims often are trafficked to Taiwan from China, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines.
Yan Sham-Shackleton Online 
So is this a bad thing because of the fact that they dared to do it? Or a good thing because the response was the way it should be?
(and why are they all going to/through Taiwan?)
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Taiwan has a booming sex industry along with factories, I think. But it goes all over asia.
It’s a bad thing because it happens. Ebay did good.
Yan
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I’m always keen to make money on eBay but even I never thoight of trying to sell Mrs Carrots (yet). Terrible that this goes on, good that eBay stopped it. It won’t stop the other trade routes though :-S
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It’s a sad fact that the Internet empowers those involved in the illegal sex industry – ranging from the trafficking of women to kiddi porn. This is the first time that I’ve seen it being so boldly and so brazenly done in a public forum.
The only real solution to these sort of problems is to curtail demand. I’d imagine trying to move a mountain is easier though.
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