<story><title>A Facebook content moderator’s resignation note</title><url>https://twitter.com/rmac18/status/1382366931307565057</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>diamondhandle</author><text>People who comment on these moderator issues always overlook the huge huge mental red flag that these moderators always discuss: images of children being molested and tortured.&lt;p&gt;Endless images of young children. Being sexually assaulted, penetrated, made to do degrading things.&lt;p&gt;Think about how that statement makes you feel, and then imagine you’ve been tricked into looking at this stuff for money as a “content moderator.” It’s a form of cruel economic punishment.&lt;p&gt;Facebook wouldn’t have these problems if they weren’t obsessed with acquiring as many users as possible. They are the ones who should be forced to pay for the long term mental health of these workers.&lt;p&gt;California ballot initiative, anyone?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stickfigure</author><text>You know who else has to deal with these images - and &lt;i&gt;much&lt;/i&gt; worse, real-world living cases? Law enforcement. Lawyers. Juries.&lt;p&gt;Do we just sit back and say &amp;quot;let&amp;#x27;s stop subjecting those poor officers from having to see evil things&amp;quot;? Of course not. We hire people with strong stomachs and a strong sense of duty. Not everyone who sees this stuff is scarred for life.&lt;p&gt;See also: Soldiers. Firefighters. Emergency medical workers.&lt;p&gt;Personally, I&amp;#x27;d rather moderate gross things than, say, work in a coal mine. But that&amp;#x27;s me. I don&amp;#x27;t appreciate the insinuation that this makes me some sort of monster.</text></comment>
<story><title>A Facebook content moderator’s resignation note</title><url>https://twitter.com/rmac18/status/1382366931307565057</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>diamondhandle</author><text>People who comment on these moderator issues always overlook the huge huge mental red flag that these moderators always discuss: images of children being molested and tortured.&lt;p&gt;Endless images of young children. Being sexually assaulted, penetrated, made to do degrading things.&lt;p&gt;Think about how that statement makes you feel, and then imagine you’ve been tricked into looking at this stuff for money as a “content moderator.” It’s a form of cruel economic punishment.&lt;p&gt;Facebook wouldn’t have these problems if they weren’t obsessed with acquiring as many users as possible. They are the ones who should be forced to pay for the long term mental health of these workers.&lt;p&gt;California ballot initiative, anyone?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>carlhjerpe</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand why on earth anyone would use Facebook as a platform for sharing this kind of content, they know It&amp;#x27;ll be removed and that Facebook is quite good at tracking you, so unless you&amp;#x27;re using a VM connected to a VPN with a browser soley for this content you&amp;#x27;ll have the police called on you?&lt;p&gt;It just doesn&amp;#x27;t make sense to me. Also, why is it that facebooks content moderators have to look at everything while Google just removed content and says nothing more about it? Does Google have more confidence in their AI while Facebook doesn&amp;#x27;t and therefore need people to manually check it? Or is it that there might be more content on Facebook uploaded that an AI would misinterpret as child abuse (baby photos and the likes that people seem so desperate to share on Facebook these days).</text></comment>