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Re:YouTube moderators forced to sign statement acknowledging... by numpad0 on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:37PM (#22140497)
I’m personally more interested in societal impacts to it.

YouTube is an impactful media, and it is moderated by personal judgements of, low paid, unqualified “moderators”, who may or may not have PTSD warping judgements or has political or religious inclinations.

I remember there was a news story of a Facebook moderator whose PTSD caused them to flag a legitimate family photo as a child pornography. I don’t think there is any other interpretation to it than that repeated exposure to images to flag will lead to the standards within the moderator to rise towards infinity sooner or later, beyond logic.

This is a slow fire burning the library of Alexandria that is the Internet, because everything WILL be labeled as “hateful offensive violent pornography” or something, past which point only static noises remain.

This needs to stop.

Re:YouTube moderators forced to sign statement acknowledging... by redisman on Friday January 24, 2020 @02:24PM (#22141565)
Giant extrapolation alert. So what's the alternative? Just leave the ISIS beheading video at #1 trending?