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Re:Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Has Reinvented Research by ccnafr on Friday May 18, 2018 @08:37AM (#17100910)
Why not? Are they afraid of users from low-income countries flooding the site?
Re:Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Has Reinvented Research by mberger on Friday May 18, 2018 @02:00PM (#17103537)
Yes, and that you get a lot of tasks that you can't prosecute their origin. For example (off the top of my head) solving captchas, cracking passwords, doxing, hacking offers etc. I think there was also the spectre of organized crime enslaving people to do the tasks and taking the profits.