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.

  • cum_drinker69 [any]
    2·
    4 years ago

    Of course. It's pretty disheartening seeing people on a communist board acting like the site that's been hosting these things for years suddenly grew a conscience, and not that their bottom line was potentially going to be royally fucked if they didn't act in response to the credit card companies shutting them off.

    Sure, great, the overall effect might be good, but these fuckers deserve as much credit as Hitler does for killing Hitler.

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

      The sex industry is run by disgusting freaks that deserve the wall. That said, it is legitimately harm reduction to eliminate the vast majority of the CP and nonconsensual content.

    • Saint [he/him]
      ·
      4 years ago

      Who's acting like they grew a conscience? We're saying it's good, not that it's done for selfless reasons.