Chinese Prisoners Forced to Farm MMO Gold
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I can't decide whether WoW is to blame for the situation, or if something similar would be happening without them.
Bots can't respond if asked what they're doing, makes the chance of getting caught much higher. The ones that can respond usually respond with an automated message such as "I am not a bot"snfonseka said:
With a person its a lot harder to catch them doing such.
This is kinda funny, but at the same time it's horrible...
i heard about this a long time ago, why has it surfaced just now?
back to the topic, it is still as horrible as i remember and again i question if this falls under human rights?
back to the topic, it is still as horrible as i remember and again i question if this falls under human rights?
Every time I hear about China, it's something bad. Some violation of human rights, oppression, hypocrisy, or another product that has a bunch of lead in it.
If anyone is really interested in this, there's a great fiction book with a lot of research and real-life situations backing it up; For The Win by Cory Doctorow. http://www.amazon.com/Win-Cory-Doctorow/dp/0765322161
I wasn't sure about it at first but it ended up being really engaging and interesting. It covers a lot about gold farming as well as labor union struggles in third world countries. Way more interesting and entertaining than it sounds.
I wasn't sure about it at first but it ended up being really engaging and interesting. It covers a lot about gold farming as well as labor union struggles in third world countries. Way more interesting and entertaining than it sounds.
Agreed It's like they took lessons from Lex Luthor. And now I have scared myself even more.Speakercone said:
At this point I'm surprise the earth hasn't collapsed into the black hole that is that nation.Sonicron said:
I will say that it seems that we've seen a decrease in gold farming since 2009 though, the last couple of years have been relatively peaceful, still tons of it, but not as much. Perhaps we're looking at a previously untold reason why. To be honest if this is true, it's always possible that the Chinese goverment intervened because of the bad reputation it was getting China as a nation, both from millions of players, and the occasional expose.
Of course then again my inner cynic suspects that Chinese organized crime managed to influance the goverment, leading to the prisons being cracked down on, less farmers, and with less competition more money going into the hands of the other sweatshops. A few payoffs of officials being more than covered by the reduction in gold farming competition. If you figure a thousand bucks a day, that's $365,000 a year, multiply it by the number of prisons, and you can see how the guys running the other slave-farming operations losing that money might be a bit miffed by the competition.
We'll likely never know the truth however.
Of course then again my inner cynic suspects that Chinese organized crime managed to influance the goverment, leading to the prisons being cracked down on, less farmers, and with less competition more money going into the hands of the other sweatshops. A few payoffs of officials being more than covered by the reduction in gold farming competition. If you figure a thousand bucks a day, that's $365,000 a year, multiply it by the number of prisons, and you can see how the guys running the other slave-farming operations losing that money might be a bit miffed by the competition.
We'll likely never know the truth however.
No, this is actually lightweight for China, home of the mobile execution chamber. Basically what China has are these vans that are set up as execution chambers. They claim to the world that this fleet of vehicles is used to drive around to prisons, bring people out, and kill them in the vans instead of in the prisons which makes like zero sense when you think about it. Apparently the actual use is where the goverment will arrest people, strap them into the death chamber, have a judge conduct a trial via the inside communications equipment, and then kill the guy in the van and harvest his organs, which is the whole point of the "death van" so they can efficiently harvest organs and get them rapidly into storage.CrazyJuan77 said:
I've posted links to articles about it, if you do a quick web search for "Chinese Death Vans" you'll wind up with a bunch of hits going back to I think around 2004. The articles range in quality, some treat it as legit, others talk about the organ harvesting, and some talk about the internal communications suite being used for trials, while others insist it's simply to ensure that the executions are conducted according to law.
In the end though what it means is that your over the top fantasy scenarios like in the old "Knight Hunters" anime, with organ harvesting seriel killers prowling the streets with modified vans to steal kidneys and the like, are actually true in China, except it's not some kind of deranged seriel killer or amoral black market operation, it's the goverment.
Put into perspective, that makes this allegation about the Chinese prison system incredibly lightweight. This gold farming scheme being roughly the equvilent of some of the things here in the US with wardens hiring out inmates to perform construction and such and pocketing the money, or making sex tapes for sale with the inmates of a women's prison (well more similar to the former than that latter which is a substantial step up).
