Sex workers say 'defunding Pornhub' puts their livelihoods at risk

Can't believe people still use PornHub anyways. In my experience, the content is not the greatest

How do you ensure that the person performing sex work is being compensated for sex work, versus some form of exploitation (whether that's the platform or an individual exploiting)?

A sex worker union [1] who can negotiate with distribution companies and platforms, lobby legislators and payment facilitators (who should not be prohibiting payments for legal business transactions), and ensure quality working conditions and anti-exploitation controls are in place.

[1] https://www.iusw.org/ (just an example, not familiar with them specifically, just demonstrating the existence of such an org)

Can't they somehow verify themselves and then be allowed to upload anything they want[1]?

I thought the problem was that anyone could make an account and upload whatever they wished like child pornography, hidden cams, etc.

[1] As long as it is legal and it's their own stuff.

It would really be ideal if some of these sex workers could get their own platform. Pornhub seems like it was frankly unresponsive on a lot of serious concerns until they were forced to deal with them by the panic articles that went around last month

And frankly it seems to me like it's still trivial to go on there and find what seems to me to be a lot of content that has dubious consent or related issues.

These performers would be better off with a platform that was highly moderated, something Pornhub and the sites similar to it don't seem to be able to (or want to) properly do.

Interesting question, because I would be tempted to say "use the same safeguards as any other labor", but there are definite grey areas there. I suppose a union is the best way to go about it, but I don't know how that helps independents, side gigs, or people just trying to break into the industry..?