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And what do you think the content moderation teams employed by Facebook, YouTube, et al. do all day?

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mattigames 5y ago
Yeah, we obviously needed one more company doing it as well, and I'm sure having more positions in the job market which pretty much could be described as "Get paid to watch pedophilia all day long" will not backfire in any way.
- emodendroket 5y ago
  You could say there are harmful effects of these jobs but probably not in the sense you're thinking. https://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/ https://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/
josephcsible 5y ago
They look at content that people actively and explicitly chose to share with wider audiences.
- emodendroket 5y ago
  While that's a snappy response, it doesn't seem to have much to do with the concern about perverts getting jobs specifically to view child abuse footage, which is what I thought this thread was about.
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  - CRConrad 5y ago
    I didn't think that was what it's about... Because that didn't even occur to me. Thanks for pointing it out.
mattnewton 5y ago
There's a big difference in the expectation of privacy between what someone posts on "Facebook, Youtube, et al" and what someone takes a picture of but doesn't share.
- emodendroket 5y ago
  A fair point but, again, quite aside from the concern being raised about moderators having to view potentially illegal content.
- alkonaut 5y ago
  Couldn’t they always avoid ever flagging pictures taken on the device itself (camera, rather than download) since if those match, it’s always a false positive?
- spacedcowboy 5y ago
  Odd, then, that Facebook reported 20.3 million photos to NCMEC last year, and Apple 265, according to the NYT that is.
  - johnny_b_g 5y ago
    >I'm a Brit Well I guess that explains a lot then - you're probably one of those that also voted for brexit, but now completely denies it - right?
techbio 5y ago
Hopefully, in between the moral sponge work they do, occasionally gaze over a growing history of mugshots, years-left-in-sentence reminders, and death notices for the producers of this content, their enablers, and imitators.

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Yeah, we obviously needed one more company doing it as well, and I'm sure having more positions in the job market which pretty much could be described as "Get paid to watch pedophilia all day long" will not backfire in any way.

emodendroket 5y ago
You could say there are harmful effects of these jobs but probably not in the sense you're thinking. https://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/ https://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/

josephcsible 5y ago

They look at content that people actively and explicitly chose to share with wider audiences.

emodendroket 5y ago
While that's a snappy response, it doesn't seem to have much to do with the concern about perverts getting jobs specifically to view child abuse footage, which is what I thought this thread was about.
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- CRConrad 5y ago
  I didn't think that was what it's about... Because that didn't even occur to me. Thanks for pointing it out.

mattnewton 5y ago

There's a big difference in the expectation of privacy between what someone posts on "Facebook, Youtube, et al" and what someone takes a picture of but doesn't share.

emodendroket 5y ago
A fair point but, again, quite aside from the concern being raised about moderators having to view potentially illegal content.
alkonaut 5y ago
Couldn’t they always avoid ever flagging pictures taken on the device itself (camera, rather than download) since if those match, it’s always a false positive?
spacedcowboy 5y ago
Odd, then, that Facebook reported 20.3 million photos to NCMEC last year, and Apple 265, according to the NYT that is.
- johnny_b_g 5y ago
  >I'm a Brit Well I guess that explains a lot then - you're probably one of those that also voted for brexit, but now completely denies it - right?

techbio 5y ago

Hopefully, in between the moral sponge work they do, occasionally gaze over a growing history of mugshots, years-left-in-sentence reminders, and death notices for the producers of this content, their enablers, and imitators.