[Air-L] Oppression and internet

A journalist sent me the following inquiry: "Do you know anyone who has done research on how the explosion of modern media communications and technology has affected the success of efforts to place humans under slavery conditions and keep them there? Do countries with more restrictive media/technology communications regimes have a greater incidence of human slavery and a reduced chance of these people getting out of such slave conditions? Overall has the use of technology by the criminals or the reduced access to media by the victims resulted in more or less slavery?" If you have pointers, please contact me offlist. Susan