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None of that is a problem. Porn can be quite degrading to women and young women should not feel pressured that they have accept that because it's now more normalized because of porn.
> [...] should not feel pressured that they have accept that because it's now more normalized Would you say the same thing about homosexuality or transgenderism ?
How to open your own video or image hosting site: Step 1: Open the site, have no content, get no clicks Step 2: Pirate everyone else's content Step 3: Start getting clicks due to the pirated content Step 4: Continue to spin the flywheel putting more pirated and "user generated" content on your site Step 5: Start to get more and more legitimate partners Step 6: Start blocking porn and pirated content. The content that…
Spotify also started with a library of pirated content.
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Smaller niche sites are exactly the type of pornographic sites I try to avoid (malware, etc.) And spinning up a new video host (that you intend to make money somehow) isn't cheap or easy.
And spinning up a new video host (that you intend to make money somehow) isn't cheap or easy. Nor is it terribly safe right now legally speaking. Considering the child porn castoffs from pornhub will be out looking for a new place to upload their trash. Eventually, not only child pornographers, but so many other undesirables are on your site, that it's just dangerous to continue running it from a liability perspectiv…
There are comments on other articles (like https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/12/pornhub-purges-a... ) where people are quoting statistics that suggest that PornHub has very little problematic content compared to other sites, such as Facebook. So the question is - why don't Visa and Mastercard take issue with those other platforms? Are they going after Pornhub simply because it sounds "bad"? Is it because they…
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My understanding is that copyrighted content on Youtube is often uploaded under the guise of anonymous users, but this is illusory. Unauthorized videos are taken down with vigilance, we see this happening to content creators all the time for no good reason. If these videos get the thumbs up to stay up, they're in cahoots with copyright holders somehow (most likely) or are deliberately ignored for some other reason. O…
> Unauthorized videos are taken down with vigilance, Yeah, right. Tell that to the flood of channels which will take cut single scenes out of tv series and twitch recordings and upload them to YT monetized.
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Let me guess, next you are going to tell me that my first person shooter game makes me a violent thug and should be banned These types of "studies" in gaming have been debunked for years, I image the porn "studies" will be as well
Why are you so sure that the psychology of sex and violence are identical, especially in such a specific context? They're totally different things. It seems ridiculous to point to the studies on one and say, "surely the studies on the other shall have the same result". Personally, I have no idea, but your premise doesn't make sense.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2154881-did-pokemon-go-...
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Section 230 + lack of resources by the owners to sue, right?
The relevant law here is the DMCA, which gives safe harbor to anyone hosting 3rd party content if they respond to timely takedown requests, which YouTube does.
From Wikipedia[0]: § 512(c) also requires that the OSP: 1) not receive a financial benefit directly attributable to the infringing activity, 2) not be aware of the presence of infringing material or know any facts or circumstances that would make infringing material apparent, and 3) upon receiving notice from copyright owners or their agents, act expeditiously to remove the purported infringing material.
This is an 'and' which I take to mean safe harbour takedown (the 3rd clause) only applies if the other two are also true. So the host must not know it exists (plausible for YouTube) and not receive a direct financial benefit (does Ad revenue count?).
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Copyright_Infringement_...
I wonder how much original content has been lost, not that it's comparable to book burning on the humanities. Is there enough porn sites in the ecosystem to redundantly "archive" content. Certainly more enthusiastic users out there than any other subject. Pornhub parent runs a lot of websites and overlap of local laws and technical requirements means not many countries can support large online porn platforms. That sa…
Nazis burned porn and trans literature, they're more alike than you apparently realize.
I'm surprised at how much impact the NYT's expose (I would personally consider it more of a hit piece) has had. I naively assumed that PornHub, as a top-10 site on the web would be immune to such a piece, but I guess I was wrong. How many of the members of the NYT and the Visa and Mastercard boards who created on this outcome watched the videos that are now down? Probably a majority of them, but that wasn't enough to…
I don't have any sympathy for Pornhub here. Their entire business is built on stolen content uploaded by anonymous users, and it wasn't until they hollowed out the rest of the industry through theft that they started looking beyond it. I would go so far as to say that the reason Pornhub and other tube sites haven't taken problems like child porn and revenge porn seriously is because doing so would undermine the found…
With all this talk about various corporations policing copyright, censoring political content, and whatnot, I think it's only a matter of time until someone makes an anonymous blockchain content aggregator that's impossible to censor. Then when it becomes the modern equivalent of Usenet/IRC/Napster/PirateBay, people will just shrug and say "don't blame the protocol". The demand exists and the technology exists, but n…
To be honest, I wonder why western governments don't ban cryptocurrencies.
They make tax collection harder and help criminals collect money. Plus that would be a blow for countries that are investing tons of money in it eg China, which is destroying the rest of the world, economy-wise.
There is the possibility that western governments are already under Chinese influence, I guess, but I wasn't definitely expecting BTC to survive so long. Especially because governments are not even benefiting from cryptos.