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A Chinese company has received 5,000 resumes and 300,000 emails expressing interest after it advertised for a "chief appraiser" of pornography. Safety Alliance, a company looking to offer web filtering in the already-restricted Middle Kingdom internet, is recruiting five people to check for obscene or "harmful" content online …

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  1. Yet Another Commentard

    "it was all too hard for him."

    I think that may just qualify as a treble-entendre.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Anonymous Coward

      Qualifications are important

      And I'm the expert, the job is mine.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
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    No fat birds

    Sounds like a job for <a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/19/laptop_plumpergeddon">Plumper</a>

    ...apart from all the bits that require possession of a braincell.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    No thanks

    Given some of what I've already seen on the Internet, there's no way you could pay me to take this job. What has seen cannot be unseen, and my sanity is already hanging on by a thread.

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: No thanks

      I've read (maybe here) about problems faced by people who think that looking at porn all day would be a great job. They soon find out that some of the stuff they have to look at is nasty beyond anything they ever imagined, and, like you said, what has been seen cannot be unseen.

      Next step: blubbing their hearts out to a psychiatric counsellor. Yes: it can be that bad.

      And anyway, even if it wasn't, porn all day?

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      1. kain preacher
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        Re: No thanks

        2 girls one cup.

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: No thanks

      While I would like the power over what is and isn't filtered and I would like the responsibility, I don't know if I would be able to cope for long actually seeing this stuff all day...

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  4. Huckleberry Muckelroy

    Take Me!

    Me Me Me Puhleeeeeze! I can remote in from Houston.

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  5. Anonymous Coward
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    Experience required...

    > The company is looking for proficiency in multiple languages, internet and obscenity case law, and personnel management.

    Exactly the kind of experience gained running a brothel.

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  6. Anonymous Coward
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    A disgraced official, politician, bureaucrat or corporate exec...

    ....should have to take this job as community service!

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  7. Anonymous Coward
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    stop laughing now, the US has to..

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  8. Katie Saucey
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    Last day of training...

    ...now if son if someone ever, ever again asks you if you have seen everything, you can damn well say..."YES!"

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  9. Anonymous Coward
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    $32,375? They could post a few ads on fiver and save a fortune. I'm sure they could get quite a few people to do this job at $5 for an hour or so worth of work. I'm sure they could even find some free applicants.

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  10. Fred Flintstone Gold badge
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    Interesting omission..

    No asking for xx years of experience?

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  11. frank ly

    The Web 2.0 method .....

    I'd do it for free and work long hours. I'd finance the operation by selling advertising on a daily blog containing examples of my work and my 'stream of conciousness' thoughts on the subject.

    Oh, .... wait a minute.

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  12. J 3
    Paris Hilton

    Before you start polishing your...

    Sorry, got distracted there for a moment.

    Anyway, I strongly suspect looking at that would get rather boring after the first few hours.

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  13. Anonymous C0ward

    I've seen enough hentai

    to know where this is going.

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  14. Anonymous Coward
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    And what do you do for work Mr Tsingtao?

    Mr Tsingtao: Oh me, I look at porn all day.

    Mr Tsingtao: And you?

    Same with me, do you work for the Local Council as well?

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  16. Anonymous Coward
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    Its' a great job for disabled candidates...

    Because it's expected that you will never have more than one hand on the keyboard at any given time!

    OK, OK, I'm leaving!!

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  17. bag o' spanners
    Facepalm

    This is a job for....[gnarly fanfare]...Tubgirl!

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  18. Mark 85

    Reminds mo of the old Woody Allen movie

    "What's the job worth?"

    "$40 a week. It's all I can afford."

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