NationStates Jolt Archive


I Wish I Had This Man's Job

The Sadisco Room
12-08-2007, 21:04
Tom Rogers, a retired Indianapolis detective, toils away most days in his suburban home office reviewing sexual Web sites and other Internet traffic to see whether they qualify as obscene material whose purveyors should be prosecuted by the Justice Department.

His work is financed by a Justice Department grant initially provided through a Congressional earmark inserted into a spending bill by Representative Frank R. Wolf, Republican of Virginia.

The grant, about $150,000 a year, has helped pay for Mr. Rogers and another retired law enforcement officer in Reno, Nev., to harvest and review complaints about obscene matter on the Internet that citizens register on the Justice Department Web site.

http://************/2sb7ca

Imagine it, being paid $150k a year to look at pornography. All you'd have to do is forward your favorite sites to the Justice Department and let them do nothing about it.
New Manvir
12-08-2007, 21:05
Greatest. Job. Ever.
Fassigen
12-08-2007, 21:05
to see whether they qualify as obscene material whose purveyors should be prosecuted by the Justice Department

Land of the free...
Smunkeeville
12-08-2007, 21:06
http://************/

you are breaking the frame.

(or my resolution sucks, either way)

and no, I don't want that job. I don't like porn.
IL Ruffino
12-08-2007, 21:07
Be a censor? No thanks.
Ifreann
12-08-2007, 21:07
Upside: Yay porn! *fap fap fap fap fap*
Downside: "Is that.....OH GOD NO, PLEASE GOD NO, DON'T PUT IT THERE! OH GOD NO, MY EYES! *gouges out eyeballs*
The Sadisco Room
12-08-2007, 21:07
http://************/

you are breaking the frame.

(or my resolution sucks, either way)

and no, I don't want that job. I don't like porn.

Roger that. Fixed for low-res losers (jk).
Smunkeeville
12-08-2007, 21:09
Roger that. Fixed for low-res losers (jk).

:p I can't help it, I got a tiny tiny screen.
Ishtar Temples
12-08-2007, 21:14
It still sound like an interesting job and there needs to be more out there. 7chan needs to have one.
Sarkhaan
12-08-2007, 21:27
I was under the impression that the justice department has no control over internet content...
Hydesland
12-08-2007, 22:22
You sure this doesn't mean looking for CP?
Bolol
12-08-2007, 22:28
You sure this doesn't mean looking for CP?

That's probably the case. That or any actual recorded rape.

I imagine they couldn't do anything about "obsene" material without treading on First Amendment grounds.

But correct me if I'm wrong.