"Exploitation" Blogs & Blog Posts

Sharon entered the job market expecting opportunities and a better deal. Instead, she said, she found more exploitation.

From The Guardian:Aisuluu was returning home after spending the afternoon with her aunt in the village of At-Bashy, not far from the Torugart crossing into China. “It was 5 o’clock in the afternoon on Saturday. I had a paper bag full of samsa [a...

Apple staff worry that governments may exploit the feature, which scans iPhones for child sex abuse images, to censor or arrest people, per Reuters.

For many hardcore baseball fans (like me, before I began researching this story), the idea of playing in Minor League Baseball is like the dream before the dream comes true. Sure, we know there are long bus rides, the pay is lousy and there’s a goo...

Ridesharing app Lyft has conscripted a few lines from a Maya Angelou poem to demonstrate its commitment to BIPOC and underserved communities, while simultaneously spending hundreds of millions of dollars to ensure that its employees, half of whom are...

Above: In 1987, TV newsmagazine 20/20 revealed the real horror of horror movies: children watching splatterpunk films on VHS in the comfort of their living rooms! "Fair warning though: There is some graphic violence in this. But we say that fo...

Many tech companies are born of the idea that existing systems could be made more efficient by giving one tool multiple functionalities. For example, under the auspices of Silicon Valley, the telephone also became a camera, music player, and televisi...