I'm curious about the contents that these people moderated. What is it that seeing it fucks people up?
things that you cannot unsee, the absolute worst of humanity
More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnoses of PTSD
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#72Worked at PornHub's parent company for a bit and the moderation floor had a noticeable depressive vibe. Huge turnover. Can't imagine what these people were subjected to.
You don't mention the year(s), but I recently listened to Jordan Peterson's podcast episode 503. One Woman’s War on P*rnhub | Laila Mickelwait. I will go ahead and assume that on the wild/carefree time of PornHub, when anyone could be able to upload anything and everything, from what that lady said, the numbers of pedophilia videos, bestiality, etc. was rampant.
Yeah, it was during that time, before the great purge. It's not just sexual depravity, people used that site to host all kinds of videos that would get auto-flagged anywhere else (including, the least of it, full movies).
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#73it's kinda crazy that they have normies doing this job
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#74I'm curious about the contents that these people moderated. What is it that seeing it fucks people up?
From the first paragraph of the article:
> post-traumatic stress disorder caused by exposure to graphic social media content including murders, suicides, child sexual abuse and terrorism.
If you want a taste of the legal portion of theses just got to 4chan.org/gif/catalog and look for a "rekt", "war", "gore", or "women hate" thread. Watch every video there for 8-10 hours a day.
Now remember this is the legal portion of the content moderated as 4chan does a good job these days of removing illegal content mentioned in that list above. So all these examples will be a milder sample of what moderators deal with.
And do remember to browse for 8-10 hours a day.
edit: it should go without saying that the content there is deep in the NSFW territory, and if you haven't already stumbled upon that content, I do not recommend browsing "out of curiosity".
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#75I'm curious about the contents that these people moderated. What is it that seeing it fucks people up?
There was a report by 60 minutes (I think) on this fairly recently. I’m not surprised the publicity attracted lawyers soon after.
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#76I'm curious about the contents that these people moderated. What is it that seeing it fucks people up?
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#77Obvious job that would benefit everyone for AI to do instead of humans.
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#78Borrowing the thought from Ed Zitron, but when you think about it, most of us are exposing ourselves to low-grade trauma when we step onto the internet now.
That's the risk of being in a society in general, it's just that we interact with people outside way less now. If one doesn't like it, they can always be a hermit.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
PTSD is what happens when you see someone standing next to you reduced to a chunky red salsa in a split second. The idea that seeing images of that can match the real thing can only be said by people who haven't smelled the results.
You’re very wrong, it can be caused by different things to different people- as the causes are emotional it requires severe emotional trauma, which does not have to happen through a specific category of event- a lot of different types of trauma and abuse can cause it. It’s hard to imagine a more disgusting thought process than someone trying to gatekeep others suffering like you are doing here.
You were literally gatekeeping ptsd from Christian mom's not one post ago.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Exploited people of the world should just pull themselves up by their bootstraps and work harder to get what they want, like you did?
They aren’t exploited. They’re paid money in return for viewing and filtering content for others. They could not apply or decline the offer and look at other jobs. The availability of this job doesn’t change the rest of their employment options. But it’s pretty clear what this job is. If it was just looking at friendly content, it wouldn’t need to exist.
Exploitation nearly always involves paying. Plenty of people caught up in sex trafficking still get paid, they just don't have a viable way out. Plenty of people working in sweat shops still get paid, but again not enough with enough viable alternatives to get out.