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Pornhub bans uploads by unidentified users amid child-abuse investigations

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Re: Pornhub bans uploads by unidentified users amid child-abuse investigations

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I hate this. I feel like segments of the population that dislike porn will use this as a wedge to demonize the entire experience over time. There is nothing wrong with taking down illegal content as it’s reported especially if the parent company is highly receptive to doing so which pornhub almost certainly is.

The idea that they were highly receptive to extensive moderation is questionable at best. But one major problem is they allowed anyone to upload AND download. So userA would upload child abuse imagery. userB would download it. PornHub would delete video uploaded by userA. userB would reupload with different video name. userC would download the reupload. It's playing whack-a-mole with illegal child abuse imagery . Int…

Yeah whack a mole is the way to go. The alternative is total surveillance which is completely unacceptable no matter how bad the crime.

Re: Pornhub bans uploads by unidentified users amid child-abuse investigations

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As a practical matter, how is this different from copyright enforcement? Simply disabling downloads is not enough, they would need either an effective DRM system, or to kill off third party downloaders such as youtube-dl. I'm sure the RIAA would love to be able to go after youtube-dl on child porn charges instead of just cppyright charges. They could attempt to implement a content-ID system to detect re-uploads. I su…

> As a practical matter, how is this different from copyright enforcement? Child porn has victims and harms society

Not more than some totalitarian surveillance law.
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