Let us report retainers who sell items from bots

[Ceodore]

Imagine tonight you look outside and see a group of people doing their best to quietly shove a struggling human into the truck of their car. They could very well be "kidnapping" their best friend for a bachelor party and its all in good fun. Or maybe not. But either way, it looks very odd. So you pick up the phone and call the police.

All that this thread is asking for is an easier way to report (not convict, not sentence, or punish) activity that seems odd. Square can then take those reports, look into things, and then decide if its a bachelor party or a murder.

Now imagine you're a detective involved in trying to bust a large drug trafficking ring. What would you rather fall into you lap? Pictures of the lowly drug seller on the street? Or pictures of the drug producer making the drugs? The fact is, your example has no relation to the situation we are discussing. You're talking about what might be a kidnapping, which is a plain as day obvious offense. There has been no establishment of a human trafficking ring (as might be the case) in which case what you are witnessing is actually the production of the product (the human) to be sold, likely via several exchanges of hands, to the lowly seller. So, your example has no real bearing on this situation as a kidnapping is not even remotely like the illegal production (botting) of goods which then exchange hands until it is sold to a consumer. Next time, get your crimes to actually relate to the situation, and then you might actually understand how to make an allusion.

The reasoning for my examples, and my reasoning for why this kind of system is ultimately more harm than good, (even ignoring the fact that it might call guilt upon the innocent) is that frankly, it's more time consuming. It involves more resources and man hours to trace a product back to its source, then to have to trace the flow of the product from the source to the rest of its selling points than it is to just have the source be placed before you. What should be suggested isn't a system where we start from the consumer side of the equation, it's one where you start from the producer. It yields faster results, and also garners far less false alarms.