October 23rd, 2014
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Zoom thisistheverge: “ Meet the Laborers Who Keep Dick Pics and Beheadings Out of your Facebook Feed, Wired: “ Baybayan is part of a massive labor force that handles “content moderation”—the removal of offensive material—for US social-networking sites. As...

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Meet the Laborers Who Keep Dick Pics and Beheadings Out of your Facebook Feed, Wired: 

Baybayan is part of a massive labor force that handles “content moderation”—the removal of offensive material—for US social-networking sites. As social media connects more people more intimately than ever before, companies have been confronted with the Grandma Problem: Now that grandparents routinely use services like Facebook to connect with their kids and grandkids, they are potentially exposed to the Internet’s panoply of jerks, racists, creeps, criminals, and bullies. They won’t continue to log on if they find their family photos sandwiched between a gruesome Russian highway accident and a hardcore porn video.

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    Interesting how much we can take content moderation for granted.
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