WARNING: this article contains explicit language.

http://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/

This article directly relates to our discussion on Internet censorship – especially the case we discussed in relation to child pornography. It is written by Adrian Chen, the same journalist we spoke about “doxx-ing” Reddit moderator ViolentAcrez (article here, )(rebuttal here). This is the story of Internet moderators:

“…companies like Facebook and Twitter rely on an army of workers employed to soak up the worst of humanity in order to protect the rest of us. And there are legions of them—a vast, invisible pool of human labor. Hemanshu Nigam, the former chief security officer of MySpace who now runs online safety consultancy SSP Blue, estimates that the number of content moderators scrubbing the world’s social media sites, mobile apps, and cloud storage services runs to “well over 100,000”—that is, about twice the total head count of Google and nearly 14 times that of Facebook.” (Chen)

I think this is very interesting, and important for you to be aware of, but again I warn that it does contain sexual and violent language.