[burpee]

I interviewed a young man who was doing this kind of work for about six months in Ireland a while back for a completely different role. It was quite clearly mentally taxing and he broke down crying mid-interview.

I ended up canceling my following meeting and talking through things with him.

He was close to suicide, had cut contact with most people in his life and said that he hadn't been able to sleep or think straight since he started the work. Unfortunately I couldn't offer him any work, only a shoulder to cry on and a promise that there was beauty in the world as well.

I never thought a job could do so much mental damage to someone, but these jobs are horrible.

[jacquesm]

No, these companies the people that upload/make the stuff are horrible, the jobs are merely a symptom.

Any company, large or small, that allows uploads of image content without strict identity verification of the uploader is going to be a vehicle for this junk. I had a super popular website in this space, as soon as I figured out what was going on I shut it down, I am of the opinion that it is not possible to run a service like that in a responsible way without causing damage somewhere.

[forkLding]

What if you put in strict identity verification and the uploader is identified but still decided to upload a NSFW or disturbing image?

[jaredmosley]

Then, assuming those kinds of images are against your TOS, then you ban them. This drastically reduces the number of images of that nature that are uploaded not only by ensuring they can't do it again but also by heavily disincentivizing them from doing it in the first place.

[alistairSH]

Beyond that, if the content they post is illegal, there's a more clear path to prosecution than if the content is posted anonymously.