When Safety Forgot about Scammers
Michael
For a while, I’ve been thinking about how the online dating moderation space shifted from focusing primarily on tackling masses of spam, much of which was scam-related, to prioritizing individual…
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Down the rabbit hole of Trudeau’s gun ban in Canada
I’ve been meaning to write something about Trudeau’s gun ban in Canada for about 2 years now, mostly as a follow-up to my 2013 post about the British bans. I…
Everything is good in moderation; except moderation…
I thought it was about time to write an article on how I was recently fired from my job with one of the Internet's leading moderation companies. It's been a…
We’re the Sweeney, son, and we haven’t had any dinner…
In the last few months, I have read an awful lot of articles and watched far too many YouTube videos about gun ownership and the British gun ban. I didn’t…
How not to fire your Security Manager.
If you have ever read my resume on this site you will notice that I passingly refer to being sacked from British Telecom three times. Occasionally people ask for the…
Please turn out the lights…
I used to consider myself something of a nationalist. Not in the jack-booted send home all the blacks and “The Empire could do no wrong” sense, but certainly in the…
