Re: Would you work at a porn company?

in reply to Would you work at a porn company?

I have done some small contracting work for one. My big question was "Do you do child, animal, or non-consensual porn?". While I never actually saw the actual media, it was important to me that nothing repugnant to me, personally, was being supported with my work.

Frankly, I have almost never understood the applications I work on. Heck, I don't even understand the applications I have designed from scratch! I'm a builder, not a user.

Here's another way to look at the topic - porn is serving multimedia in a rapid fashion. My first Perl job was doing exactly that, but for images of corn, tractors, and bees. What's the difference?

My last job was to automate submission and indexing of multimedia from various sources and to improve the response time for searches and delivery of said multimedia.

Porn? Corn? Can you tell the difference?

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