The Dubai ads on spotify

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I don't know how much control HR has for its Spotify ads, but on Aerois episodes 183 (I think a bit further back) to at least 185 there are some ads for Dubai.

It's not talked about much in the modern media, but Dubai is a major hub for modern day slavery. This article goes into it (https://www.google.com/amp/s/hir.harvard.edu/taken-hostage-in-the-uae/amp/) but a TLDR includes...

Trapping foreign labour by taking their passports and putting them in packed accomodation. Not having actual channels for said foreign labour to defend their rights (they technically do have them as the UAE banned slavery in the 70s but the government doesn't actually investigate or have the structure to investigate the practice of modern slavery).

Putting employees into permanent debt with their employers so they aren't able to potentially escape (like indentured servitude) and have to rely on said debt to eat.

And there are even worse reports which are far less forum appropriate to talk about.

To be clear, I'm not suggesting that HR is willingly supporting it (It's unfortunately not well known), but that I imagine the team would probably want to be aware of it so they can remove it from future streams if possible.

Posted Aug 15, 2023, 9:37 AM UTC

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Also the laws on rape and reporting it out there... yikes...

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The ads on Spotify are not controlled by High Rollers, and they do not have any say in what Spotify chooses to advertise.

Thank you for highlighting this, but as the High Rollers team can't do anything about the Dubai ads, this subreddit is not the place to discuss the issue.

Thank you for your time The Mods of r/highrollersdnd

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