Bill Gates Sued For Forcing Staff To Watch Child Rape And Murder

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Microsoft staff were forced to view footage of children being raped and murdered, according to a lawsuit filed against Bill Gates.

Microsoft staff were forced to view photos and videos of “indescribable sexual assaults”, and “horrible brutality” including the rape and murder of children, resulting in severe post-traumatic stress disorder, according to a lawsuit filed against Bill Gates and Microsoft.

The complaint, filed on behalf of two former employees and their families, outlined the “inhumane and disgusting content” the moderators viewed on a regular basis and alleged that the psychological impact has been so extreme that the men are “triggered” by simply seeing children and can no longer use computers without breaking down.

“It’s horrendous,” said Ben Wells, one of the attorneys who filed the suit in Washington state, where Microsoft is headquartered. “It’s bad enough just to see a child get sexually molested. Then there are murders. Unspeakable things are done to these children.”

Guardian reports:

If the suit prevails, it could have ramifications for corporations across the industry, and Wells said he hopes the case inspires others to speak out about poor working conditions.

A Microsoft spokesperson said in a statement that the company “disagrees” with the claims in the suit and “takes seriously its responsibility to remove and report imagery of child sexual exploitation and abuse being shared on its services, as well as the health and resiliency of the employees who do this important work”.

Plaintiffs Henry Soto and Greg Blauert both worked on the online safety team, which is responsible for complying with legislation passed in 2008 requiring tech companies to report child abuse images and other crimes.

Microsoft did not warn the workers about the dangers of this line of work and the potential for “debilitating injuries”, according to the suit, which was filed in December and was publicly reported this week.

When Soto was “involuntarily transferred” to the unit in 2008, he had “God-like” status, which meant he could view any customer’s communications, the suit said. His job involved assisting law enforcement in breaking up “crime rings” and “violent groups” and required him to view “many thousands of photographs and videos” of violence and brutality.

“Many people simply cannot imagine what Mr Soto had to view on a daily basis as most people do not understand how horrible and inhumane the worst people in the world can be,” his lawyers wrote. Blauert, who was hired as a full-time employee in 2012, was also required to “review thousands of images of child pornography, adult pornography and bestiality that graphically depicted the violence and depravity of the perpetrators.”

[Soto] suffered from an internal video screen in his head and could see disturbing images
Although Microsoft created a “wellness program” and offered a counselor, the services were insufficient and ineffective and the company failed to help the workers understand the “vicarious trauma” and PTSD they were suffering, according to the suit.

Program authorities advised the workers to take walks and smoke breaks and suggested Blauert play video games to manage his symptoms, the complaint said. Later, however, his supervisors allegedly gave him a poor evaluation for “lack of production and too much time playing video games”

When Soto initially met with psychiatrists, he said he was experiencing sleep disturbances, nightmares, anxiety and “suffered from an internal video screen in his head and could see disturbing images”. As time progressed, he began experiencing visual hallucinations, panic attacks in public, disassociation and depression.

“One of the triggers for him is children,” Wells told the Guardian. “At times, he can’t look at his own son … He can’t see a knife in the kitchen … He can’t look at computers.”

Soto eventually went on medical leave.

Blauert suffered a physical and mental breakdown in 2013 when he was experiencing “intractable crying, insomnia, anxiety and PTSD”, the suit said. He is now triggered by adults who look like “potential abusers” and “fears for the safety of children he meets”. He is also unable to look at any “child related content” on computers and has not returned to work due to the triggers, according to the complaint.

The men are seeking damages, and the complaint also outlined potential reforms that would make the “online safety” job less harmful. That includes mandatory rotations out of the program, more time off, weekly meetings with a psychologist and a spousal wellness program.

Microsoft declined to comment on the specific claims, but said in a statement: “The health and safety of our employees who do this difficult work is a top priority.”

The corporation also said it provides mandatory psychological support each month, uses technology to “reduce the realism of the imagery”, reassigns employees who no longer want to do this work, and limits the amount of time the employees spend on the moderation.

Microsoft and other tech corporations need to do a much better job “protecting people who are doing heroic work”, added Wells. “They saved children’s lives. They put people in jail that deserved to be in jail.”

The attorney said he believes other tech corporations have similar challenges and inadequate or nonexistent wellness programs. In recent years, there have been past reports of alarming conditions for moderators who review Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other companies.

“The public needs to understand that this work is not being done by a computer,” Wells said.

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19 Comments

  1. Not surprised at all. Gates and his eugenics vaccines are evil…as in a member of the satanic cabal. He sure looks a lot like George Soros. Great reporting, Newspunch. Hope all his assets are confiscated and the money returned to the ppl, especially those he has harmed. Thank God for PDJT and team!

  2. This article is being suppressed A.F. Had a hard time finding it but I knew it existed because I read it before. Not surprised at the criminals at Google.

    • They were sys admins who helped law enforcement to seek out perpetrators. As a sys admin I have seen things too, but the reason was back in the day the network would clog up when people started watching porn.
      Believe me these employees saw horrendous stuff and being exposed to it for a long time is not healthy. I just saw it occasionaly and it already sticks in your head like an accident.

  3. This is the perfect job for psychopaths. Regular folk have no business being up in evil folk’s business.

  4. Wow. This is another case of “the headline doesn’t match the story”. I hate that.
    It is important work, finding this horrible content online, removing it, and busting the people and rings who use it. Bill Gates didn’t MaKe them watch it, as the headline suggest.
    You would think that we would have computer programs to do this work, tho, instead of people actually having to watch it as their job!

    • He was not having them view that content to “protect” those kind of images from being searchable, he was having them view them to groom them, program them and make it “normal”. Bill Gates is a satanic worshipper, have a look at his wife’s necklace. They are open about it. He has openly said he will REDUCE the population via vaccines. He also said the world needs a GOOD GENOCIDE to lower the population numbers. He has been on Jeffery Epsteins plane, to his Island, not one time by mistake, but 17 times. He is part of the Deep State and a disgusting animal that needs to be euthanized

      • I think he’s more a convenient scapegoat than anything, given his visibility and outspoken views on these very real issues. I believe Bill has been played. The real perps operate in the shadows, using puppets like Gates, while they themselves remain relatively hidden and unknown.

        That said, I tend to agree with them. Too many retards who absolutely need to be culled.

        • You are disgusting I have two granddaughters with Down Syndrome so what you just wrote makes me sick. I know they are good and kind and are full of love. You are a sicko I hope you don’t have a family because you don’t deserve one. What you said ranks right up there with being a pedophilic or a murderer.

    • “FREE MONEY” in Lawsuits.
      Seriously, if you cannot handle the job, get a different line of work. And I dislike intently the Kissinger’d code thief.

    • I won’t sub this site based on that clickbait – the headline makes it sound as if Gates forced them to watch this stuff at his personal insistence. Using that as clickbait is reprehensible, and believe me – I DON’T LIKE GATES.

  5. It would have been nice to see a court document as it is its an opinion piece like many others.having said that, wouldn’t surprise me but it would be all over the conservative web sites.

  6. A young man I knew somehow got a ‘crazy’ VHS video 30+ or so years ago & (not being sure what it was) a small number of us watched it; and I thought “Wow, those are some crazy special effects; it can’t be true”, then, later I realized what a snuff video was. That was enough for me. Only after seeing later evidence what ISIS-types do, did I realize it was almost certainly real. Poor woman.

  7. Meanwhile, Microsoft does nothing (apparently) to keep social media like FB & TWTR from posting material relating to or participating in pedophilia and trafficking, via a Windows-based system.

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