Warning: Adult Content

"Have you gone through your dailies?" Rich asks.

"Almost. Just about," Roxy replies.

It's another day at the offices of Viviotube, a growing video sharing website. Roxy is one of their quality assurance staff and one of her duties every day was to go through her assigned number of dailies. To first understand dailies, one has to understand the website. Thousands of videos are uploaded onto Viviotube every day by all sorts of users, old and young, real and imagined, male and female. One thing that can be said for the web community--and by extension, the Viviotube community--is that they are an eclectic bunch possessing their own ideas of what is right and wrong.

Roxy and her cohorts can't possibly see every video that is uploaded to the website, so they generally take a random sampling and weed out any violate Viviotube's terms and agreements. These include videos with pornography, extreme violence, and copyright violations. Sometimes they are contacted by foreign countries with less democratic values. Sometimes it's television networks or record labels.

Then there are the ones that fall through the cracks. These are picked up by the users themselves. Fastidiously diligent users comb through videos and flag ones they find inappropriate. These flagged submissions are consolidated daily and split up equally among Roxy's group. They go through each one and decide whether or not to ban them, attach a warning tag, or leave it alone. Most of these are easy. A Democrat might be complaining because they find a video mocking his candidate. Annoying for him, sure, but not a violation. A video of a man pleasuring an animal? Roxy can delete that video without a bat of an eye. A video of a man falling off a ladder and breaking an arm or a video blog that has a few words of profanity? A warning tag will probably do. But there are gray areas. There might be a racist video that is morally reprehensible, but even as it promote bigotry and ignorance, it does not promote violence. Roxy dislikes it, but she might not have any grounds to remove it. At most, she might be able to put a warning tag on it, but even that is questionable.

When the gray areas prove to be too gray, the group meets and decides by majority vote. And this is why Rich is asking Roxy if she is done yet. When she is, she joins the rest of them in the conference room. Rich is at the head of the room.

"Roxy, do you mind starting us off?"

"Sure."

She walks to the front and logs onto the computer, pulls up her videos that require deliberation. The first one is cued to start on the wall display.

"Okay," she says, "This first one is sort of strange. It's a guy setting fire to a kangaroo. But I think it might just be a stuffed one."