Pornhub Just Purged All Unverified Content From the Platform
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After changing its policies to ban unverified uploaders and Mastercard and Visa's decision to drop the platform entirely, Pornhub has removed millions of videos.

11.1 million (Out of about 14 million) to be more exact. Almost 80% of all their videos.

Isn’t my main porn site personally, but still pretty lame that all that amateur stuff is gone. Looks like it’s heading the way of Tumblr.

Just a reminder that Pornhub is worth nearly 3 billion dollars and easily could’ve afforded as big of a moderation team as they could’ve wanted lol.

Edit: Alright, this got dumber than I thought it would, so I’m leaving off with this:

I can’t believe I have to say this, but it does not make someone a rapist or a pedophile to suggest that a multibillion dollar company, one responsible for a site where the public can upload things to it, can afford to have a moderation team.

Literally every site that allows public uploads. porn or otherwise, runs the risk of someone uploading something fucked up to it, that’s why moderation teams exist in the first place. To find and remove such content.

Yes, it sucks ass that those mods would have to even glance at such things, but Pornhub is not some crazy unique special case here. Mods everywhere have to see fucked up shit before it can be removed to protect others.

Rule-breaking content has to verified that it is, indeed, breaking the rules. That’s how moderation works.

I apologize for nothing.

Peace.

  • CthulhusIntern [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 years ago

    You can still be amateur and verified dude. Just look at r/gonewild. And verified also does not mean ethical. Girlsdoporn was verified until the FBI shut them down.

  • PermaculturalMarxist [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 years ago

    Wasn’t this because there was a bunch of stolen content, revenge porn, and cp being posted and barely anything was done about it? I would say this is probably a good thing, even though the damage has mostly been done and MindGeek’s monopoly status has been more or less completely consolidated.

      • PermaculturalMarxist [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        4 years ago

        Eh, if anything more pro-worker and anti-sex abuse measures could be taken. I personally don’t consider the enjoyment and utility of a porn website to it’s users to weigh anywhere near as much as the safety and material benefit to the people that work for it.

          • Saint [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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            4 years ago

            Removing videos of children being raped and revenge porn is obviously worth the cost of you having fewer options to jack it to, how is this even a question? You holding up the idea of some sort of imaginary perfect moderation system is just a distraction