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.

        • AStonedApe [they/them]
          4·
          4 years ago

          I'm not sure, but I don't see how it's relevant to your argument. Moderating pictures/videos for CP is unethical, so we need to find another way; your proposed solution is only allowing verified users to upload. Is that a strategy you'd push for other sites, or only Pornhub?

            • AStonedApe [they/them]
              4·
              4 years ago

              So any site that allows uploading of nude pictures/videos, you'd favor this approach? How do we catch and remove pictures/videos of nudes on a site like ChapoChat without employing moderators that may accidentally see CP?

                • AStonedApe [they/them]
                  4·
                  4 years ago

                  filtering, weeding out porn

                  Who does this on ChapoChat currently? If it's humans, how is that any different than what OP proposed for Pornhub?

                    • AStonedApe [they/them]
                      4·
                      4 years ago

                      If anything I'd avocate for expanding this decision to more sites. Clearly allowing anyone to upload to ChapoChat already had some negative repurcussions, so I'll ask again: why should ChapoChat not follow suit and ban un-verified users from uploading pictures/videos?

                      And I can see how being coerced into moderating CP by capital is worse than volunteering to do so. But why put volunteers in that position anyway if we can just fix the problem by only allowing verified users to upload in the first place?

                        • AStonedApe [they/them]
                          3·
                          4 years ago

                          We don't allow porn, but how do we get rid of it when it is uploaded?

                            • AStonedApe [they/them]
                              3·
                              4 years ago

                              Right, and if what needs removing is CP then you've subjected humans to watching CP. Is that a problem? I'm not 100% sure, but it certainly makes me uncomfortable.

                                • AStonedApe [they/them]
                                  4·
                                  4 years ago

                                  The difference is huge in both scale and use case. This is all a volunteer effort, not a for-profit porn company.

                                  Profits or not, making human moderators look at CP in order to remove it is abhorrent. Why are we okay with that happening on our site?

                                  in what context are we even remotely near having cp be a grey area?

                                  I never said this was the case. Idk where you got that from, tbh.

                                    • AStonedApe [they/them]
                                      3·
                                      4 years ago

                                      I totally understand why it's easier to determine which porn to remove on here because all porn is to be deleted. But if CP is uploaded to this site, a human will have to see it before it is deleted. Why is that not bad?

                                    • AStonedApe [they/them]
                                      4·
                                      4 years ago

                                      Why does being smaller prevent us from implementing the same preventative tactic as Pornhub? If anything the fact that a billion dollar corporation is incapable of moderating their picture/video uploads is reason to think that we can't either.

                        • AStonedApe [they/them]
                          4·
                          4 years ago

                          Are you just doing this for a sake of being a contrarian?

                          No.

                          Fuck off

                          Ok.