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Re:Laws hold the porn industry accountable for dangerous con... by gambiting on Friday November 08, 2019 @04:14AM (#21480876)
I mean - if you see an abuse video, a regular employee would flag it immediately and stop watching. Someone doing it for the thrill would watch it till the end and then flag it. It would be pretty obvious from the data I think.
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Re:Laws hold the porn industry accountable for dangerous con... by thaumasiotes on Friday November 08, 2019 @04:22AM (#21480899)
> Someone doing it for the thrill would watch it till the end and then flag it.

Why do you believe this? It's not at all similar to how the regular user base watches videos. Compare PornHub's in-video display of how popular various timestamps are.

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Re:Laws hold the porn industry accountable for dangerous con... by Dylan16807 on Friday November 08, 2019 @04:48AM (#21480997)
You're getting hung up on the exact wording. Maybe not to the end, but they're not going to get any enjoyment if they close it five seconds after they part they're seeking starts.
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Re:Laws hold the porn industry accountable for dangerous con... by mk89 on Friday November 08, 2019 @05:07AM (#21481056)
Or you download it, flag it, and watch it at home once you are alone.

I never thought about the fact that the reviewers can have bad intentions. Interesting....

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Re:Laws hold the porn industry accountable for dangerous con... by gtsteve on Friday November 08, 2019 @05:16AM (#21481077)
I can only assume you would use data loss prevention software/techniques for tasks this. Locking out USB ports and logging web traffic on the terminal would be the first step but there's probably smarter things you could do.
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Re:Laws hold the porn industry accountable for dangerous con... by mk89 on Friday November 08, 2019 @05:27AM (#21481117)
True, indeed. If you want, you can somewhat prevent.

Although, to be honest, typically videos are buffered and even cached from the browser, so logging incoming web traffic won't help there.

Preventing outgoing traffic might help. Preventing storage would be interesting. I think those machines need to be really just terminals where you can't do literally anything but click yes/no and go to the next in the queue. It'd be interesting to know how they do it.

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