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"Content Screeners" Review 10,000 Baby-Stabbing Porno Images Each Hour
It's the new nightmare job: 'content screener' at one of the outfits hired by MySpace and Yahoo! and Microsoft and the like. Someone's gotta screen out all that homemade porno and true crime and wife-beating. You get paid between $8 and $12 an hour; somehow, you supposedly click by 80,000 images a day, if you work at Telecommunications On Demand. (Um, that's 166 images a minute per employee, by the math, which is impossible, but they do claim that their staff of 50 review 20 million images a week. Maybe it's in big thumbnail batches! But with thumbails big enough so that you can see if any of the pictures are of children being stabbed!) The Internet: destroying lives, one person at a time.
I can't tell if this is a pick me up from the slide show I just clicked through of former debt collectors' stories of suicides and employees threatening people with tire iron beatings in Spanish. Am thinking I will go back to the juggalos for a spell ..
Our dystopia will be more banal than we anticipated.
Aaaannd the likelihood that the next Stieg Larsson knockoff will make its Lisbeth Salander character a renegade content scanner just went through the roof.
Is anyone screening Facebook for shots of the sausage platter at last week's barbecue. The repetition is soul crushing.
As soon as they get word of Tumblr, expect these numbers to double.
I used to have a job where we would view web sites really fast and rate whether they were spam or not. It was terrible work.