[SomethingNew2]

Based on the information in the article these complaints were raised after the contract was ended. Why not refuse the work or raise the complaint at the time? The article also mentions the work was worse than they thought, but indicates they were told what the work entailed before starting it. Also the primary person being quoted lost his wife and family, and blames this work on why he lost his wife. Anyone who has been in a relationship knows singular reasons are an oversimplification of a complicated relationship.

[version_five]

It's pretty obviously an unpleasant job, but it does seem like they cherry picked a disgruntled former employee for the story. The jobs pay above average wages, it would be interesting to know the overall sentiment of the people that work there as opposed to just seeing anecdotes designed to provoke outrage.

Would people rather that money just didnt go into the Kenyan economy?

[dagaci]

Hindsight is a great thing; I would assume that psychological damage accumulates. The question you are asking the man who lost his wife was: “Didn’t you know that constantly reading horrific texts, and looking at horrific images would wreck your mind. You should have known before you started?!” This is just a petition for the Kenyan government to investigate. Kenyan government may need to apply some age restriction, and require that staff be filtered by stability before the start reviewing horrible materials” "texts, and some images, many depicting graphic scenes of violence, self-harm, murder, rape, necrophilia, child abuse, bestiality and incest"

[frandroid]

Have you not ever had a shitty job that you could not afford to quit because there was no other work at comparable salary available to you? They talk about how they specifically targeted new graduates. The economy in Kenya is not exactly Silicon Valley.

[jstarfish]

> Anyone who has been in a relationship knows singular reasons are an oversimplification of a complicated relationship.

Oh come on:

> The 27-year-old said he would would view up to 700 text passages a day, many depicting graphic sexual violence. He recalls he started avoiding people after having read texts about rapists and found himself projecting paranoid narratives on to people around him. Then last year, his wife told him he was a changed man, and left. She was pregnant at the time. “I lost my family,” he said.

I deal with forensics and have incidental contact with similar; it rubs off on you. Even my own post history reflects a similar personality change over time; I've been accused of being an unmedicated schizophrenic (by someone committing disability fraud of all things). You stop sleeping, knowing what other people are capable of doing, concealing, and actively thinking about (especially when it's people you otherwise think you "know"). You come home progressively-broken from the shit you witness. Add to that a pregnant wife (the pinnacle of logic, reason and stability) and divorce is inevitable. It doesn't need a "complicated" relationship; when you look online, therapists will try to skim whatever they can off of you on the way out but /r/divorce is touted as the only solution to all marital problems-- especially "depressed spouse."

The man's job compelled him to read the equivalent of "The 120 Days of Sodom" every day. I couldn't even stomach it a single time as an edgelord teenager.

> Why not refuse the work or raise the complaint at the time?

Where's your empathy? The company set up shop in Africa for the purpose of exploiting everybody willing to walk through its doors. They don't need to put up with revolutionaries; they'll throw your ass out onto the street because there's a line of people who'll take your spot without complaint. Not an ideal situation to be in when you have a child on the way.

[hgsgm]

It's activism, not journalism. The purpose is to persuade, not inform.