Thursday Movie Night
Im Schatten der Netzwelt - The Cleaners

Director - Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck, Germany 2017, Documentary, 88 min.

Thu, 28.02.2019
7:00 PM Goethe-Institut Dar es Salaam

Enter a hidden third world shadow industry of digital cleaning, where the Internet rids itself of what it doesn‘t like. Here we meet five “digital scavengers”, among thousands of people outsourced from Silicon Valley, whose job is to delete “inappropriate” content of the net. In a parallel struggle, we meet people around the globe whose lives are dramatically affected by online censorship. A typical “cleaner” must observe and rate thousands of often deeply disturbing images and videos every day, leading to lasting psychological impacts.