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Microsoft Anti-Porn Workers Sue Over PTSD (thedailybeast.com)
An anonymous reader shares with us a report from The Daily Beast: When former Microsoft employees complained of the horrific pornography and murder films they had to watch for their jobs, the software giant told them to just take more smoke breaks, a new lawsuit alleges. Members of Microsoft's Online Safety Team had "God-like" status, former employees Henry Soto and Greg Blauert allege in a lawsuit filed on Dec. 30. They "could literally view any customer's communications at any time." Specifically, they were asked to screen Microsoft users' communications for child pornography and evidence of other crimes. But Big Brother didn't offer a good health care plan, the Microsoft employees allege. After years of being made to watch the "most twisted" videos on the internet, employees said they suffered severe psychological distress, while the company allegedly refused to provide a specially trained therapist or to pay for therapy. The two former employees and their families are suing for damages from what they describe as permanent psychological injuries, for which they were denied worker's compensation. "Microsoft applies industry-leading, cutting-edge technology to help detect and classify illegal images of child abuse and exploitation that are shared by users on Microsoft Services," a Microsoft spokesperson wrote in an email. "Once verified by a specially trained employee, the company removes the image, reports it to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and bans the users who shared the images from our services. We have put in place robust wellness programs to ensure the employees who handle this material have the resources and support they need." But the former employees allege neglect at Microsoft's hands.
There's plenty of sick fucks out there that would love to get paid to watch that shit.
Is this like South Park's "Sex Addiction" episode (http://southpark.cc.com/clips/267345/sex-addicts) where the only explanation for people who want to have sex with lots of women instead of maintaining monogamous relationships is a wizard alien who cast a spell on men?
There is truly some disgusting pornography that will make me gag - but if I were watching it professionally as a job, I imagine I'd get inured to it, the same way that sanitation workers, septic cleaners, etc get accustomed to the sensory unpleasantness that they are exposed to.
Since there are a LOT of nanny groups out there, and this is a unique lawsuit...I suspect that the two employees found a fetish while they were working, that it carried over to their personal life, interrupted typical marital (and boring) sex with a preference to masturbating to...Brazilian fart porn, or Japanese Elephant sex parties, or whatever it was - which in turn led to familial strife, which in turn is now leading to a lawsuit blaming watching porn for psychological trauma.
I've been in two wars fuckers. I've been shot, I've killed, I've had friends killed - I know PTSD. Complaining that you get PTSD from watching porn (even fucked up porn) is like saying that watching Saving Private Ryan entitles you to entrance to American Legion and VA benefits.