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Re: Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr

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I hope they succeed. Tumblr is not really my thing and neither is porn, but I have been dismayed by the seeming trend to criminalize and stamp out all expressions of consenting adult sexual behavior on the internet. It would be nice to see some successful push back.

How is porn criminalized? If anything, it's the opposite.

Pornstars are heroes for kids nowadays, we should be trying to avoid kids getting their sex education from PornHub, not favor even more exposure.

Re: Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr

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Porn video sites stay in business by not competing with YouTube, accommodating content and advertisers that YouTube doesn't want. What kind of content are you or the grandparent commenter looking for this theoretical new site to host?

> What kind of content are you or the grandparent commenter looking for this theoretical new site to host? I mentioned it in a different comment: I miss the content that YouTube used to have before they started punishing the stuff that advertisers objected to (through demonetization and refusal to recommend them). Far too many YouTube channels now are clearly walking on eggshells and being very careful about what the…

So true. I keep seeing vodeos where the host censors even remotely-triggering words and sentences.

Re: Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr

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I hope they succeed. Tumblr is not really my thing and neither is porn, but I have been dismayed by the seeming trend to criminalize and stamp out all expressions of consenting adult sexual behavior on the internet. It would be nice to see some successful push back.

How is porn criminalized? If anything, it's the opposite. Pornstars are heroes for kids nowadays, we should be trying to avoid kids getting their sex education from PornHub, not favor even more exposure.

I didn't say porn was being criminalized.

Just curious, can you give me a list of good resources for sex education?

Re: Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr

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I'm actually confused why everyone in this thread is saying PornHub is full of illegal content. First, they have tons of verified accounts with revshare ala YouTube monetization at the same or better rates / view. Second, MindGeek owns all the tube sites and all the premium sites. Them and advertising networks like TrafficJunky are the equivalent Google Ads for the adult industry. The premium sites are heavily affili…

Most people don't know that MG owns most of the industry. They've done a really good job making sure no one looks behind the curtain.

They’ve even achieved regulatory capture. The UK has a law coming into effect that will require porn sites to require ID-based age verification; MindGeek is naturally the primary company developing such a system: AgeID.

Re: Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr

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https://www.reddit.com/r/hailcorporate started to gain some momentum and was killed fast. My guess is that the professional community, people that earn money manipulating/contributing paid-content to Reddit, is quite big. Or, at least, their impact is really big. Most people are just readers and Reddit professionals have time, motivation and knowledge to game the system. I have fun reading Reddit. And I read it very…

> https://www.reddit.com/r/hailcorporate started to gain some momentum and was killed fast. Killed how? They've got 168,000 subscribers and seem to be fairly active.

Socially killed. It was turned into a joke quickly, and most people seem to roll their eyes and mumble something about tinfoil hats whenever astroturfing is brought up.

Re: Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr

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Maybe worth a try. Sometimes one business fails to find the right recipe/market but another might very well do.

I Think we're approaching a time where it will be honourable to use a competitor to a shit behemoth, and will engage a following more.

I fail to parse your sentence 'to a shit behemoth' ?

Re: Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr

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How is porn criminalized? If anything, it's the opposite. Pornstars are heroes for kids nowadays, we should be trying to avoid kids getting their sex education from PornHub, not favor even more exposure.

I didn't say porn was being criminalized. Just curious, can you give me a list of good resources for sex education?

How much education do you really need for safe sex?

Re: Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr

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I didn't say porn was being criminalized. Just curious, can you give me a list of good resources for sex education?

How much education do you really need for safe sex?

I was molested for a few years as a child. I ended up suicidal and frigid.

I spent a year in therapy in my teens and 2.5 years in my twenties. I read stacks of research-based books to educate myself.

It took me decades to learn to have sex safely without being some man's victim.

Re: Pornhub wants to buy Tumblr

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Some gun vloggers were talking about moving to a porn site after Youtube banned them, but I don't know if anything came of it. There's also a Pornhub meme community. Brightly colored videos of dancing Shrek heads and so on - on Pornhub! But I don't think there are many non-pornographic content creators who want to publish to a porn site.

InRange TV (Ian from Forgotten Weapons and a couple other guys) posted a couple videos there during the threat of bans from YouTube. I don't know if they've posted any others since they were never banned and their audience on YT is so much larger. It'd be interesting to see if the videos are still up or if they were removed.

The old videos are still up, but they mostly stopped uploading new videos to it a while back. It was discussed in the January Q&A. They're still uploading to bitchute and full30.
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