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
#2They are such a large player in this business. I wonder what would the impact be on competitor websites.
Re: Pornhub bans uploads by unidentified users amid child-abuse investigations
#3I 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.
Re: Pornhub bans uploads by unidentified users amid child-abuse investigations
#4I 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.
I'd recommend the NYT article that led to this recent pushback: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opinion/sunday/pornhub-ra... It's not at all anti-porn, and addresses what you're referring to.
This is just my own two cents independent of the article, but I think for any platform that allows anyone to upload anything, a blacklist system is inevitably doomed to fail once the platform is beyond a certain size. The only feasible option in that case is to whitelist, which is what Pornhub seems to now be doing going forward.
Re: Pornhub bans uploads by unidentified users amid child-abuse investigations
#5I 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. Interestingly PornHub only really started caring when payment processors started looking into things. But better late than never.
Re: Pornhub bans uploads by unidentified users amid child-abuse investigations
#6I 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.
I'd recommend the NYT article that led to this recent pushback: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opinion/sunday/pornhub-ra... It's not at all anti-porn, and addresses what you're referring to. This is just my own two cents independent of the article, but I think for any platform that allows anyone to upload anything, a blacklist system is inevitably doomed to fail once the platform is beyond a certain size. The onl…
That op-ed is anti-porn though. The only source is Exodus Cry, an evangelical group trying to shut down the entire sex industry.
The author briefly mentions the Internet Watch Foundation's objective stats and then dismisses it when they say they don't know why it's so low compared to Facebook and Twitter. Maybe because it just is?
Why are Mastercard and Visa not "investigating" Facebook and other sites for allow child abuse uploads in the millions?
Re: Pornhub bans uploads by unidentified users amid child-abuse investigations
#7I 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…
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Re: Pornhub bans uploads by unidentified users amid child-abuse investigations
#8I 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…
> It's playing whack-a-mole with illegal child abuse imagery.
As opposed to the alternatives? Have a moderator sitting in a chair behind every single person using a computer? Outlaw storing/transmitting any user generated data, and turn the internet into Cable TV 2.0?
Playing whack-a-mole with law breakers is a fact of life in a non-totalitarian society.
Re: Pornhub bans uploads by unidentified users amid child-abuse investigations
#9They are such a large player in this business. I wonder what would the impact be on competitor websites.
Their main competitor is 2x the size (wgcz).
Re: Pornhub bans uploads by unidentified users amid child-abuse investigations
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd recommend the NYT article that led to this recent pushback: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opinion/sunday/pornhub-ra... It's not at all anti-porn, and addresses what you're referring to. This is just my own two cents independent of the article, but I think for any platform that allows anyone to upload anything, a blacklist system is inevitably doomed to fail once the platform is beyond a certain size. The onl…
That op-ed is anti-porn though. The only source is Exodus Cry, an evangelical group trying to shut down the entire sex industry. The author briefly mentions the Internet Watch Foundation's objective stats and then dismisses it when they say they don't know why it's so low compared to Facebook and Twitter. Maybe because it just is? Why are Mastercard and Visa not "investigating" Facebook and other sites for allow chil…
Let's try to stay at the higher levels of Graham's hierarchy pyramid.
What's the specific stat or claim you disagree with? If you read the article, you can see both the author and several interview subjects explicitly clarify severe times they're perfectly fine with porn, as long as it's of age and consensual.
What's a source on Facebook having millions of child pornography videos? If they did, I'm sure NYT would report on them and Mastercard and Visa would investigate them, too.