Facebook employs hundreds of young Filipinos to remove offensive material

Re:Facebook employs hundreds of young Filipinos to remove of... by ageek123 on Sunday May 28, 2017 @02:37AM (#14433356)

I'm sympathetic, but saying that working six days a week (which MANY Americans do) is "modern slavery" seems like quite a stretch.

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Re:Facebook employs hundreds of young Filipinos to remove of... by unfunco on Sunday May 28, 2017 @03:10AM (#14433422)

Compare wages, living conditions, and working conditions.

Intentional hyperbole: being forced into wage slavery in order to afford basic food and clean drinking water is a little different than taking a driverless car to the Googleplex on a Saturday morning for free breakfast and a game of ping pong.

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Re:Facebook employs hundreds of young Filipinos to remove of... by johnchristopher on Sunday May 28, 2017 @02:48AM (#14433381)

But why compare to America ? To MANY, It's not the best country to live in. Plus, what good is having modern job in a modern world that sucks up so much time for work ? Can't we get a bit of the good parts of the Star Trek utopia :) ?

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Re:Facebook employs hundreds of young Filipinos to remove of... by dirtylowprofile on Sunday May 28, 2017 @03:08AM (#14433419)

We're not America. Some may work the same as 6 day work week, but still our rate is like 1/12 of how much you guys own in an hour. Shit, some gringos even asked me $400 to have them develop an app for them. That is like one day for an engineer from Silicon Valley.

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