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Re:More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnos... by sandworm101 on Saturday December 21, 2024 @10:29PM (#42484203)
A parade shooting is bad, very bad, but is still tame compared to the sorts of things to which website moderators are exposed on a daily/hourly basis. Footage of people being shot is actually allowed on many platforms. Just think of all the war footage that is so common these days. The dark stuff that moderators see is way way worse.
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Re:More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnos... by wkat4242 on Sunday December 22, 2024 @12:42AM (#42484610)
> Footage of people being shot is actually allowed on many platforms.

It's also part of almost every American cop and military show and movie. Of course it's not real but it looks the same.

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Re:More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnos... by guerrilla on Sunday December 22, 2024 @09:42AM (#42486597)
> Of course it's not real but it looks the same.

I beg to differ. TV shows and movies are silly. Action movies are just tough-guy dancing.

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Re:More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnos... by jnwatson on Sunday December 22, 2024 @09:56AM (#42486681)
"Tough guy dancing" is such an apt phrase.

The organizer is even called a "fight choreographer".

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Re:More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnos... by wkat4242 on Sunday December 22, 2024 @01:48PM (#42488248)
I mean more the gory parts. Blood, decomposed bodies everywhere etc.

And I wasn't talking about action hero movies.

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Re:More than 140 Kenya Facebook moderators sue after diagnos... by 7bit on Monday December 23, 2024 @05:23AM (#42493338)
It absolutely does not look the same. You instinctively know that what you see is just acting. I somehow don't believe that you have seen a real video of a person getting shot or beheaded or sucked into a lathe. Seeing a life getting wiped out is emotionally completely different because that's more than a picture you are emotionally processing. It looks only the same if you have zero empathy or are a psychopath.
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