Maybe we should blame people who produce horrible content instead?

In many cases, that's a shitty, low-paying job too.

https://restofworld.org/2021/the-chinese-content-farms-behin...

Same for the folks at click farms boosting those pieces of content.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/02/click-far...

It's fascinating to me how many people really want to blame the cogs in the machine over the designers and owners of it.

Those aren't creating traumatising content though. Totally different thing.

Then I'm at a loss as to what the parent poster wanted; acts of child porn and murder and whatnot are already illegal and fairly regularly punished. Those folks get plenty of (fair) blame.

Yeah their comment made no sense really. Maybe they wanted to focus more on catching the perpetrators rather than filtering out their effects?

People who moderate TikTok are not slaves.

It's possible to get exploited without being a literal slave, though.

There's a vast spectrum between "I'm Bill Gates and nothing is ever out of my reach" and "slavery". Folks in poor nations with few prospects being exploited for their cheap labor often gets uncomfortably close to the slavery end of things.

If you end up watching traumatizing content for a low salary it does mean that the cards you were dealt at birth weren't so great. Perhaps they could have been in a better place if they pulled up their bootstraps but I'd challenge any SWE here to do well with the same starting circumstances