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The people policing the internet's most horrific content

2019-08-20 01:16:52| BBC News | Business | UK Edition

Website content moderators have to see some very disturbing material. How do they cope?

The Internet's Precarious Health

2018-11-09 18:56:10| TechNewsWorld

Mozilla has launched the first full edition of its Internet Health Report. The report is "an open source effort to explore the state of human life on the Internet," said Mozilla Executive Director Mark Surman. It consists of research and analysis about the Internet compiled by researchers, engineers, data scientists, policy analysts and artists in Mozilla's extended community.

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Surviving the Internet's Troll Apocalypse

2016-09-29 19:56:58| TechNewsWorld

Social media has sharpened humans' age-old appetite for public shaming, providing a stage and unlimited seating for an endless stream of immorality plays. Those who share even the simplest identifying details about themselves are vulnerable to being pushed into the glare of the spotlight. Anonymity frees many individuals of the consequences they might face offline for being abusive to others.

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The Internet's Shameful Role in Propagating Body Shaming

2016-09-21 19:14:39| TechNewsWorld

A problem once associated mainly with school playgrounds often follows people into adulthood, and the anonymity of the Internet has aided its proliferation. People have been shamed for being overweight, underweight, too conservative, too revealing, too young, too old, too plastic or too real. Bullying and harassment are very real problems not only for children, but also for countless adults.

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