Living under authoritarian regimes is both relatively boring and normal AND incredibly corrosive to the human soul. These things can absolutely co-exist.
This is why everyone needs to resist authoritarians, even people who privately assume they’ll be just fine.
The damage this causes across generations (even if the regime is short lived!) is so hard to grasp if you haven’t lived with it. It touches every aspect of life. It makes trust impossible, and without some level of trust and a belief in the possibility of justice, *nothing in society works.*
The first time I saw it I seriously considered making a similar game for moderation using actual content (ie not the more abstract way Moderator Mayhem went with) to provoke the same understanding of how corrosive a force it is, but the fact it legally couldn't include the worst stuff would blunt it
It seems from reading your posts that "legally couldn't include the worst stuff" stifles a lot of research/discussion on T&S (and then of course there's also the ethical issues)
On the whole, I think it's a very good thing that people can't post the worst examples of the content T&S has to deal with, even though it makes it hard to convey the experience. I do wish for better research exemptions, though.
Having participated in an FBI investigation into CSAM in the earlier days of the internet as a sysadmin made me never want to be involved in T&S but I have the utmost respect for those that can handle it. I was the one that found the material and reported it. I'll never forget.
