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.

    • budoguytenkaichi [he/him,they/them]
      15·
      4 years ago

      Bet you a million dollars their algorithms don't catch all of them.

      So my question stands: Should all those millions of videos of people doing absolutely nothing wrong still get nuked?

        • budoguytenkaichi [he/him,they/them]
          14·
          4 years ago

          I am not "defending rape/CP" for thinking that a multibillion dollar company can afford a moderation team. You're being absolutely ridiculous.

          And once again: I wish.

          • Saint [he/him]
            6·
            4 years ago

            Can afford a moderation team? Yes. Can afford the magical omniscient moderation team that would be required to prevent videos of child porn and revenge porn to be available for anything between hours and forever? No

            • budoguytenkaichi [he/him,they/them]
              11·
              4 years ago

              Fucked up content can theoretically be uploaded to countless places on the internet where the vast majority of it's average content is inoffensive.

              Should literally all of them be purged of everything they've ever had because of that?

              • Saint [he/him]
                4·
                4 years ago

                I'm more interested in how they deal with real child porn than theoretical child porn

            • budoguytenkaichi [he/him,they/them]
              15·
              4 years ago

              You: Millions of innocent people, uploaders and wankers alike, should be collectively punished for the actions of a minority of bad actors when it could have been easily avoided entirely.

                • budoguytenkaichi [he/him,they/them]
                  12·
                  4 years ago

                  You have to at least see that something breaks the rules before you remove it for breaking said rules, that's literally how all moderating works you fucking dumbass.

                  • Bread_In_Baltimore [he/him]
                    4·
                    4 years ago

                    If the video IS an underaged girl but there is no way to verify that, they should just keep it up? Is that your solution?

                  • Saint [he/him]
                    4·
                    4 years ago

                    Yeah that's his point. It's a shortcoming of the moderation approach that you're advocating for that doesn't exist with the verified user approach that he's advocating for

        • autismdragon [he/him, they/them]
          1·
          4 years ago

          Uh, hold up, I tentatively agree that budoguy's priorities are not correct, but I absolutely disagree that Youtube should remove all content on the site that isn't verified. It's not a porn site. Removing small creators work because its inconvenient to moderate is incredibly fucked up. Youtube already has problems trying to make a computer do a job a human should do, lets not make that worse.

          Porn sites are different though.