> Their mission: to make sure the cameras capture no rude words, no insults, and no political slogans.

That is a very interesting problem. Most events with high attendance happen in controller environments.

> The words “SOS réfugiés” – a call for action on the Mediterranean migrant crisis – are turned into an enigmatic 888.

That is an interesting strategy. Even that I can also see it backfiring by creating "messages" that can be read by niche cultures as significant.

I guess that the future of this job is to have it done digitally by deleting messages in real time thru some AI filter. That would be very practical, but it is also a scary future were changing reality becomes a commodity.