2Cheap Censorship
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Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has made no secret of his liberal viewpoints and his dislike of conservative politics. Thankfully, America has a constitution that provides for free speech or FB would be completely taken over by the likes of BuzzFeed and Huffington Post. However, Zuckerberg is also known for his “creativity” and he has found a way to monitor FB content.
And now, we know who his army of thought police are and how much they are being paid to do the dirty work. According to this report, a Mail on Sunday investigation has found that the billion-dollar social networking site has hired young Filipinos, many with limited English skills, to censor offensive and terror-related content.
Worse still, they are being paid a measly £1.81 an hour to do it. That is just $2.03 an hour in USD by the way. Keep in mind, this is the guy who is considering running for president in 2020, well, because social justice is just so important. Seems that paying slave wages and outsourcing jobs doesn’t fall under his definition of justice and equality.
Workers are not only paid little for their efforts, but the work itself is grueling. And if they don’t meet “quotas”-they are…
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