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"You only have to watch it through if you have to make sure its actually gore."

I'm not sure that is any different than what the article describes.

>She knows that section 13 of the Facebook community standards prohibits videos that depict the murder of one or more people

>It’s a place where employees can be fired for making just a few errors a week

As I understand it, an employee has to make sure its extremely likely that it is a murder. She is told she can pause it by the psychiatrist, not to close it. You as an individual dont need to find out. Just close it immediately if you assume its gore.

I'm not sure that watching some of it, is more desirable than watching all of it long term. They're just on to the next horrible video anyway.

I think we are talking past each other. I am arguing, that this job shouldnt exist in this form as users can take care of what they watch themselves.

> as users can take care of what they watch themselves.

I don't know what you mean by that. If you visit facebook, you don't get to pick what you see. Certainly a few seconds of a murder is going to be less than desirable.

You can pick what videos you play. If it looks like its going to be a gore clip dont continue to play it. You dont need to find out if the example above, with the guys with machetes, ends badly.

> Certainly a few seconds of a murder is going to be less than desirable.

While not desirable, outsourcing your second every few days to some poor guy who has to watch it all day long doesnt sound like a good solution to me.

I think our understanding of how someone sees a video is different too. I'm not sure how many give you a heads up as much as your scenario implies.

Not everyone processes things the same way as you and many people (children, poorly educated folk) don't necessarily have the self-awareness to make such decisions reliably. And we both know there are people who delight in propagating such material and causing discomfort to others. Perhaps consider that the problem is not as simple as it appears to you.

>Perhaps consider that the problem is not as simple as it appears to you.

I dont think its a simple problem. It is one without an optimal solution. I just think the downsides of having the stuff around are preferable to having people ruining their mental health out of financial desperation.

I also believe that the reliability would go up with time, people are able to learn quite a lot.

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