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.

    • anthm17 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      i offer critical support for pornhub.

      nah, they are doing this because of bad press.

      Still profit off things that should unquestionably be illegal.

        • anthm17 [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          I knew what you meant (and wasn't criticizing you, you're not wrong at all) I'm just saying even this is entirely self-serving. They have known about the problem for years and refused to do anything meaningful about it.

          This is the worst sort of capitalist whitewashing.

            • anthm17 [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              I clicked out of this thread and only came back because you replied.

              I also want no part of a porn struggle session.

      • MarxistHedonism [she/her]
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        4 years ago

        They’re doing this because every major credit card company banned them, not because of PR.

        Agree they still haven’t earned critical support.