Well, my top hit was someone named “Ninja Sex Party” offering songs about disks and unicorns. So, basically your standard internet?
If you think this proves Musk’s ownership of Twitter has opened the doors to all sorts of depravity, I don’t think this is the case. Wildly explicit sexual content has always been on Twitter and I don’t think it’s ever been against their terms of service. Twitter hasn’t had to deal with the bullying that forced Tumblr to ban pornography because it’s big enough that the app store owners don’t want to pick a fight.
Now maybe it’s true that CSA and the like are now easier to find on Twitter thanks to the reduction in moderation, but I really don’t recommend you go looking for it or posting links to it here.
Famously, Ted Cruz accidentally clicked like on a video of incest porn on Twitter on the anniversary of 9/11. It just goes to show that there really is no limit to the depravity that Twitter will allow Ted Cruz to still be on the platform.
Apartheid Clyde eventually deleted this tweet after he realized he’d grabbed the bullhorn instead of the dog whistle.
I know you’re joking but I suspect the vast majority of things that job would involve looking at are less “sexy” and more “soul-scarring”. Particularly if child porn is involved.
I have a friend who worked for a content delivery system company, and her job for a while was watching porn. The porn provider was a client, and her employer had human beings checking that client content streamed smoothly, and the clients whose performance she was monitoring delivered porn.
She didn’t enjoy it, but didn’t find it soul scaring. I suppose it was a legitimate commercial porn company, not random tweets.
So we surveyed 442 Twitter employees remaining at the company and asked them: Do you believe Twitter will succeed under Elon Musk’s management? Eighty-nine percent said “no,” 11% said “yes.”
…We also asked after the layoffs if they’d recommend Twitter as a workplace to their friends and family — 2% said “agree” or “strongly agree.”
One percent of respondents believed that employees had been treated “with dignity and empathy during the layoffs,” and 63% believed that “steps could have been taken” to avoid mass firings, including business restructures or leadership decisions.
Ah, good old green card slaves. (People slaving away in the hopes of earning a green card, that is.) I used to work for an employer that had some of them. Our green card slaves really did put in more hours than the rest of us. It was a decent place to work, though. We had a few who did earn their green card, left to try life at a competitor, and returned.
Somehow, i doubt that’s how it’s going to play out at Twitter.
I don’t have one at hand, but there are articles out there about content moderators suffering from PTSD from having to watch really horrible stuff: violence, murder, mayhem, scatological stuff, physical abuse, child abuse, gore. Think snuff films.
And they were often independent contractors so weren’t eligible for mental health care coverage.
Oh, I’m sure it far worse for content moderators than for people who are evaluating the streaming quality of stuff that someone else has already moderated and curated. The sounds like a horrible job.
(I’ve run into ugly stuff just moderating some tame little chat sites. But it’s a less-than-once-a-year event for this kind of moderating.)
I’ve seen these too. Apparently Facebook content screeners have it the worst. Sounds like absolute hell on earth.
I’ve heard its real, real bad at reddit, too.
I was, and I’m sure it is a horrible job. Child porn, beheading videos, and all sorts of depravity. I stay away from any parts of the web that show these sorts of things. I don’t like watching people get murdered so stay away from police shooting videos. I don’t need to add nightmare material to my head. I still vividly remember things that that taught me that lesson years ago.
Worse than that, if a H1B holder loses their job, they have 60 days to find a new job (and hopefully one that will help with their intent to immigrate), somehow change to a different visa status, or get out of the country.
It essentially gives the tech industry carte blanche to make extreme demands of such employees, knowing those employees would otherwise face deportation.
It appears that have checked the preference for allowing sensitive contents, although I don’t remember specifically changing it in preferences. There were many times when, while reading a thread, I clicked the past the sensitive content warning, but that’s because I wanted to see mean tweets that contained curse words, not graphic close-ups of double penetration.
And since my account is suspended, I can’t change the preference.
What I found unusual about yesterday wasn’t so much that a search on #sex turned up hard core porn, but that it appeared on my trend line.
Not like what I saw yesterday. The porn is all in NSFW forums that are specifically cataloged as being NSFW, in the regular forums it seems like they put the NSFW tag (which blurs the preview) even on bathing suit pics and pics that show deep cleavage.
No, I mean the people that have to look at stuff and make calls about moderation. Back in the day, at least, Reddit was real committed to letting people go right up to the line and push really awful stuff. So the “edge cases” that got sent to content moderators was awful. Lots of “is it CP?”
Ahhh, I get it.
I just want all this hubbub about Twitter to die down, or I need to ignore it.
Last night I had a near nightmare where I was back at my old company, and some ultimatum similar to Musk’s was made, and I was all upset.
Then, I remembered I’d been retired, comfortably enough, for ten years. Not going back either. No way. No how.
Yes, that’s why we joked about their “slave” status. They are completely dependent of their employer, and they have all kinds of issues if they lose their jobs.
Like most such jokes, there was an uncomfortable truth behind it. H1B visa holders are very vulnerable to a bad employer.