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The In-House Decency Patrol At Facebook
theodp writes "How'd you like a job where you get fired if you DON'T view porn at work? Newsweek reports on Facebook's internal police force of 150 staffers who are charged with regulating users' decorum, hunting spammers and working with actual law-enforcement agencies to help solve crimes. Part hall monitors, part vice cops, the $50,000-a-year 'porn cops' also keep Facebook safe for corporate advertisers."
there are people who get PAID to view porn?!
They pay 150 people $50k a year to do this when if they promised people a few hundred Texas Hold 'Em chips per report they could have millions doing it for free.
There are ads on facebook?
If you build it, nerds will come. Soylentnews.org
Wait till they find pictures of their mothers on my page!
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
If you've been following what the LAPD has been up to in the last few months, you'd know that cops get cycled through the vice unit after only 18 months so that the next guy can get a turn.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
aww, how cute, baby learned to type already..
Just be thankful you're not being paid to watch necrophilia-based porn - that's dead boring. In contrast, the incest related stuff is only relatively boring.
It gripped her hand gently. 'Regret is for humans,' it said.