Social media's content moderators (censorship)
backseatLover12
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Eye-opening article on "The Laborers Who Keep Dick Pics and Beheadings Out of Your Facebook Feed".
We are being censored - by outsourced, under-paid jobs as well as well-paid U.S. jobs… and we're thankful for it. These workers get paid to view the violence, gore, and humanity-questioning content and erase it, so our social feeds don't post it for the sake of protection of humanity. It's a long article but very interesting.
http://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/
“If someone was uploading animal abuse, a lot of the time it was the person who did it. He was proud of that,” Rob says. “And seeing it from the eyes of someone who was proud to do the fucked-up thing, rather than news reporting on the fucked-up thing—it just hurts you so much harder, for some reason. It just gives you a much darker view of humanity.”
We are being censored - by outsourced, under-paid jobs as well as well-paid U.S. jobs… and we're thankful for it. These workers get paid to view the violence, gore, and humanity-questioning content and erase it, so our social feeds don't post it for the sake of protection of humanity. It's a long article but very interesting.
http://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/
“If someone was uploading animal abuse, a lot of the time it was the person who did it. He was proud of that,” Rob says. “And seeing it from the eyes of someone who was proud to do the fucked-up thing, rather than news reporting on the fucked-up thing—it just hurts you so much harder, for some reason. It just gives you a much darker view of humanity.”
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But it was mind blowing. Who knew that our feeds are protected thanks to those whose eyes are burned by gruesome and disgusting content. At the same time, I hate censorship, but this really makes you rethink things. Thanks for commenting, Whatyoutaughtme.
Having had all the stupid crazy jobs I have, I have gotten to see many fucked up lines crossed recrossed and completely obliterated by human kind. As a CrimeScene recovery agent ( I cleaned up murder scenes, suicides, torture scenes etc, after the investigations arenas had all their evidence), I saw a torture chamber where a man had kept his wife holed up under ground, ( 10 feet underground!) and 22 miles out into the middle of a field.. There he gave her a coffee can to shit in, which he collected. Throughout the first 24 hours, he took a single blade razor, and made over one thousand tiny cuts all over her body.. He then rubbed her own shit into the wounds, and left her to die from the infection.. And that was one of the milder cases I saw!
As an EMT I saw a 76 year old woman beaten to death with a steel handled cane by her own husband over a fifth of Bourbon!
So having seen some pretty fucked up stuff, I am very grateful that there is someone out there that is keeping that stuff off of these easy access sites like FB etc. I can't even stomach how fucked up people can be.. ( probably why I don't like people), and I'm glad that the rest of the decent 'innocent' population doesn't have to know about a lot of these warped inclinations.
Very interesting read for sure!
Seems my preconceptions are what should have been burned...
I AM MINE
It's like birds dropping dead - been happening for ages but the fact that the information is so readily transmitted might make it appear as if it's occurring more frequently.
(and to whispering hands - good god, woman! You must have a stomach of steel to have witnessed what you have)
WhisperingHands, thanks for chiming in. I hope that you're not too scarred by what you've seen. It sounds completely and utterly awful just reading it!
I hear you though - sight tends to stew longer and deeper.
To haunt you in an odd way.. I can remember leaving a suicide scene, and the guy had shot himself in the head.. Which had been MY suicide plan 24 years ago, and cleaning up his brains from the wall and carpets, made me realize that could have been what my family saw!! And I couldn't stop praying for the family of that guy.. For like weeks.
I think too, that somehow, knowing these images and incidents or those committing these horrific acts, are out there doing evil, that it inspires us to be sure in our deepest moral core, NOT to be this way; to stand against it. It's odd how some people are utterly disgusted by such things, and some are drawn to watch or look at the pictures. Remember those faces of death movies that sort of thing.. Anyhow, that's all I have right now.
I was thinking- most of us when we drive by a car accident have a hard time not being curious so many times we glance over as we pass by or (unfortunately) many times people slow down traffic and stare at the carnage. Few people do not at least glance at the scene. Why are we both so curious about and (generally speaking) equally repulsed by morbidity?
The other thing I wonder about is- how do people who work at jobs such as the one you had, whispering, or forensics or in a morgue? How do you get used to that sort of thing? My wife tells a story about her treating a horses gross facial wound years ago and the thought of it kind of make me turn green (she always leaves in the gory details) but she cannot look at a person being injected by a needle- not even on TV or film. Interesting!