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.

  • Bread_In_Baltimore [he/him]
    17·
    4 years ago

    Literally no question that this is good. If you prioritize your diversity of jerk off material over the safety of sex workers and exploited people then honestly you should really do some thinking about yourself. Under no circumstances should a rape video or child porn be up on the internet for any amount of time at all, and leaving any wiggle room will always lead to bad outcomes.

    I see the argument that they should just pay for better moderation but that means things will still fall through the cracks, questionable content will remain up. Under the old system, if there is a random amateur video of a young girl fucking an older guy and it's unclear whether she's 15 or 19 (and no you can't always tell), and you report it, they don't remove it until they can verify she isn't underage. They leave it up until they can find proof that she is underage. I stopped using pornhub because I reported a questionable video like this and saw the exact thing. They just left it up. A video that really looks like a 40 year old creep fucking a teenager and it was probably still up until now.

    I'm sorry that you don't have as many videos to crank your hog to, but children and sex workers are more important. Full stop.

    • anthm17 [he/him]
      3·
      4 years ago

      Under no circumstances should a rape video or child porn be up on the internet for any amount of time at all, and leaving any wiggle room will always lead to bad outcomes.

      That's impossible to guarantee without massive government overreach.

      What they could do is crack down on the porn industry. There has been cases where even the supposedly legally produced porn was actually assault.

        • anthm17 [he/him]
          1·
          4 years ago

          A better solution is to legalize and regulate

          That's what they have done.

          So one of the examples of this was that a site lured out women with false promises and then the guy bullied them into and just straight up assaulted them.

          I don't remember how much they knew going in, but that's still massively different than expectations even if they were agreeing to do porn.

          Regulation doesn't handle that, this is another fucking way in which police fail us.

          • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]
            ·
            4 years ago

            So one of the examples of this was that a site lured out women with false promises and then the guy bullied them into and just straight up assaulted them.

            That was the disgusting GirlsDoPorn thing. However that somehow was a verified PornHub account, so unfortunately this new policy from PornHub would not have prevented that content from being uploaded. Still think the new policy is good though, and still can't believe that someone thought it was a good idea to allow anyone to just create an account and upload pornography without any verification.

            • anthm17 [he/him]
              1·
              4 years ago

              It was. There's also been at least a couple stories about big male stars (in straight porn) who are total shitbags.

              still can’t believe that someone thought it was a good idea to allow anyone to just create an account and upload pornography without any verification.

              gotta get that money.

            • anthm17 [he/him]
              ·
              4 years ago

              I'm saying the police are shitbags who can't even be trusted to arrest someone is regularly preying on young women.

              It's the whole system top to bottom.

                • anthm17 [he/him]
                  ·
                  4 years ago

                  The fucking New York Post did that to a woman just yesterday. Bastards.

                  She's an emergency health care worker too. So gross.