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porn sifter noun. A person who works for a content-filtering service and who searches the Internet for pornographic Web pages so that they can be included in the list of sites blocked by the software.

Example Citation:
"'The Internet is a big toilet. If we had kids at home, I wouldn't let them use it.' — Brian Milburn, president, Cybersitter, a content-filtering software package, quoted in a story on Forbes.com on the lousiest tech jobs. among them is porn sifter for content-filtering companies."
—"The Buzz," The Oregonian, January 22, 2001

Related Words:
debt porn
domestic pornography
gastroporn
investment pornography

Subject Categories:
Business - Jobs and Job Titles
Computers - Internet
Culture - Pornography

Posted on March 13, 2001 at 6:10 PM
Updated on March 13, 2001 at 6:10 PM


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