Re:A Facebook content moderator’s resignation note
by wiedelphine on Thursday April 15, 2021 @10:20AM
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It feels like you are suggesting that under a certain amount looking at images of children being sexually abused or tortured shouldn't have an impact on mental health? For me personally I think even a single image like that would haunt me.
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Re:A Facebook content moderator’s resignation note
by pdpi on Thursday April 15, 2021 @11:00AM
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Seeing one image once will have an impact but probably allow you to still lead a normal life after that. Spending all day looking at that sort of thing over an extended period of time is much more likely to have serious long-lasting effects.
I don’t think there’s a magical line where it suddenly has an impact on mental health, and the details will vary from person to person, but there is most certainly a point where you go from functioning adult to justifying a formal diagnosis of PTSD or something similar.