Pornhub scrubs million of videos from unverified users

[Shawn Knight]

Bottom line: Pornhub has taken the biggest step yet in changing its business model following a New York Times exposé earlier this month alleging the site was profiting from non-consensual video uploads. The move could ultimately result in the site moving away from its amateur content and focus more on material from professional models.

In a recent blog post, the user-generated adult content site said it has suspended all previously uploaded content that was not created by content partners or members of its model program.

“This means every piece of Pornhub content is from verified uploaders, a requirement that platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat and Twitter have yet to institute.”

Verified users are those that have verified their identity with the site via a selfie of them holding a piece of paper with their site username and Pornhub written on it.

According to Vice, Pornhub hosted roughly 13.5 million videos on Sunday evening (based on a counter in the site’s search bar). By Monday morning at 9 am, the figure had fallen to 4.7 million. Vice said the number briefly went back up to 7.2 million, so perhaps the situation is still fluid.

In the wake of the aforementioned exposé, Pornhub halted uploads from unverified members and put an end to downloads. Visa and Mastercard last week also cut ties with Pornhub, preventing cardholders from making purchases through the site.

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[QuantumPhysics]

When someone posts videos where the faces of the "participants" can't be verified, it "could" be illegal/child porn, and it's virtually unknowable. Not to mention the region where it's posted from is unknowable - as well as the laws in the region it was uploaded from.

That's the slippery slope you get on when you try to make porn like "youtube" and entice people to upload their porn.

If people were getting ad revenue share for posting porn, the internet would explode.


But then there's the legislature overreach as well:

If someone posts videos they made with a "prostitute", technically they'd be posting evidence of a crime.

If prostitution gets relabeled "trafficking" or "sexual abuse of women" or something, then there's an overreach possibility of charging the poster with "human trafficking". It's really ridiculous.

What's worse is, whether it happens on video or not, those same children, or women would be abused anyway.

During the pandemic, there's been a large movement of women into porn (for money) totally voluntarily.

In that same amount of time, there's been a tremendous surge of domestic violence claims, sexual abuse claims and spousal rape claims. Many parts of southeast Asia (among other places) are expecting a pregnancy pandemic this year due to the number of months we were locked down and had nothing else to do but..."copulate".

Both the victims and the market are there whether "pornhub" services it or not.

 

[kimo1]

I wonder if that was a conspiracy against PH. Since why no other porn sites are targeted? As if PH is the only porn site with huge userbase. And then there's Chaturbate...

 

[franticfrosty]

So basically, Pornhub just cut their revenue by 99%?

 

[veLa]

When someone posts videos where the faces of the "participants" can't be verified, it "could" be illegal/child porn, and it's virtually unknowable. Not to mention the region where it's posted from is unknowable - as well as the laws in the region it was uploaded from.

That's the slippery slope you get on when you try to make porn like "youtube" and entice people to upload their porn.

If people were getting ad revenue share for posting porn, the internet would explode.


But then there's the legislature overreach as well:

If someone posts videos they made with a "prostitute", technically they'd be posting evidence of a crime.

If prostitution gets relabeled "trafficking" or "sexual abuse of women" or something, then there's an overreach possibility of charging the poster with "human trafficking". It's really ridiculous.

What's worse is, whether it happens on video or not, those same children, or women would be abused anyway.

During the pandemic, there's been a large movement of women into porn (for money) totally voluntarily.

In that same amount of time, there's been a tremendous surge of domestic violence claims, sexual abuse claims and spousal rape claims. Many parts of southeast Asia (among other places) are expecting a pregnancy pandemic this year due to the number of months we were locked down and had nothing else to do but..."copulate".

Both the victims and the market are there whether "pornhub" services it or not.

I actually agree with you.

 

[EClyde]

Pro Skanks as opposed to semi pro or amateur skanks. The only thing skankier then the girls are the guys

 

[NimbusTLD]

Farewell various compilations ... Saying goodbye for a friend

 

[No Longer Human]

In Canada it's illegal to "communicate for the purposes of prostitution", yet if I form a company, film the sex, then make it available to the public by internet or DVD, that is totally legal. Seems very strange to me.