Disaster Pornhub Will Ban Uploads From Unverified Users - RIP Pornhub

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Pornhub Will Ban Uploads From Unverified Users​

The site announced a slate of "trust and safety" measures after facing an onslaught of criticism over hosting abusive and illegal content.​

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A Pornhub logo at the 2018 AVN Adult Entertainment Expo.
Pornhub will prohibit uploads from unverified users, effective immediately, the company announced Tuesday.

The new policy is part of a slate of “trust and safety” measures that come after the site faced an onslaught of criticism in recent days over allegations of hosting abusive and illegal content.

“Our core values such as inclusivity, freedom of expression and privacy are only possible when our platform is trusted by our users," the company said in a statement announcing the changes. "Every online platform has the moral responsibility to join this fight, and it requires collective action and constant vigilance.”

The site will limit uploads to content partners and people in the Model Program, effective immediately. The company said it will create a new verification process next year to allow any user who goes through an identification process to upload content.

Pornhub will also ban downloads from the site, with the exception of paid content from the Model Program, whose users are verified. It will also expand moderation with a new team dedicated to auditing the site. It will release a report on moderation results next year, including details about child sexual abuse materials found on the platform.

The changes come after a scathing op-ed in the New York Times that detailed allegations of child abuse and sexual assault videos on the site.

MindGeek, Pornhub’s parent company, is based in Canada. The op-ed prompted concern from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, along with investigationsfrom Visa and Mastercard.

Pornhub and other streaming sites have faced criticism for years from both the public and members of the porn industryover policies that allow anyone to upload content with little oversight.

The renewed scrutiny comes amid a public debate over how and when tech platforms like Facebook should be held accountable for user-generated content on their sites.

At the same time, the criticism has been fueled by a growing moral panic over sex trafficking. A petition to shut down the site led by Laila Mickelwait, an anti–sex work activist, received nearly 2 million signatures this summer.

Major questions remain over the implementation and efficacy of Pornhub’s measures. The requirements to become a verified user are minimal, and reporting from Vice last year showed that “fingerprinting” software that the company uses to prevent content from being reposted once it has been removed can be easily circumvented.

Pornhub did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

 

[Yaniv’s Hairy Balls]

Isn’t this kind of similar to what happened with YouTube and their terrorism debacle? When they got shit for not removing monetized Isis propaganda of murders and shit?

And now look at YouTube

 

[Rebel Wilson]

Porngate is the new 9/11 of the internet.

 

[Zero Day Defense]

oh no... one porn site out of the bazillion others out there is going down the crapper. How will anyone ever survive this catastrophic crisis?

MindGeek is a collection of porn sites, and other porn sites that do business will certainly be following suit.

It'll be a sight to behold if this seriously strangles online porn dead.

Now, how about we do something about kids being able to access porn sites freely without so much as being asked if they're 18?

 

[NerdShamer]

I find it weird that the amateur/random stuff is better than the professional porn.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Now, how about we do something about kids being able to access porn sites freely without so much as being asked if they're 18?

It's called being a parent and taking measures to prevent their kids from accessing said sites. It's the same with TV, movies, and video games.

 

[DamageJoy]

Following the Times’ report last week, Visa and Mastercard said they would investigate whether the site was hosting illegal content.

First they come for the meme frog posters, then they came for your "free" porn.
Isn't it absurd that a few credit card processing companies can just bully anybody to do whatever they want?

Shouldn't the authorities be investigating the illegal activities? You guys should just provide a way to money to flow.

Our current internet infrastructure has some serious choke points that will be exploited by robber barons sooner or later.
So many huge players who basically own all of a segment of the process can just nuke you for no reason at all.

Also, oh look another platform that have used user generated content to increase their relevance gets more selective about the people on the site. I don't even care about porn, but if somebody doesn't really do something content beside corporations and "influencers" might be phased out.

 

[Smug Cat]

Going against the grain here but I really can't be assblasted about a porn site requiring age verification from the people posting spank material on it. I think that's responsible of them, and missing out on your favorite amateur gangbang number 42 because the girl getting gangbanged might be a 15-year-old sex slave in eastern europe is not a serious loss. This is not political dissent being censored.

Payment processors being the arbiters of stuff like this is a big problem though. I agree this should be something the authorities are dealing with,

 

[Dark Edea]

It's alright I should have most of them backed up.

 

[Goyslop Muncher]

Porngate is the new 9/11 of the internet.

Gamergate 6.9

 

[round robin]

Welp, time to see them go the way of tumblr.

 

[Spatula]

Good.
I sincerely hope porn businesses shut down permanently.

 

[Archie_Kimkicker]

I find it weird that the amateur/random stuff is better than the professional porn.

The same is true of traditional "professional" content, both online and in legacy sources. The Cathedral is re-asserting itself.

 

[Zero Day Defense]

It's called being a parent and taking measures to prevent their kids from accessing said sites. It's the same with TV, movies, and video games.

The kind of parenting required to keep porn out of the view of children (and most importantly, teenagers) would screw them up in other ways. Meanwhile, these corporations profit off children in the short term (when they visit their sites and drive up traffic/ad revenue), and simultaneously invest in a future captive consumer base when they become adults able to give them money.

 

[JimmyNugget]

So time Magazine ratted out the porn?
Good thing xvideos is still here.

 

[Not Really Here]

Good.
It's about time the porn megapacks came back to the torrents.

 

[Gypsymagic]

I find it weird that the amateur/random stuff is better than the professional porn.

Not really weird at all. Amateur stuff is good because it's genuine sex, you can tell the people involved are enjoying themselves. A lot of professional porn just feels fake because they're just there for a paycheck, they're not there for the sex. Granted every once and awhile you can find a decent professional who can act and make it seem genuine, but they're rare because the barrier to entry for a professional pornstar is extremely low.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

Good thing xvideos is still here.

And XHamster, and YouPorn, and PornTube.

Hell, just go to https://www.findtubes.com/ look for what you want and it'll show you everything under every porn site under the sun

 

[2021Murder]

oh no... one porn site out of the bazillion others out there is going down the crapper. How will anyone ever survive this catastrophic crisis?

Its the biggest one and the company that owns it has most of the porn studios and the most watched tube sites. Basically this might be the end of easily watching pirated porn/amateur porn.

When this company put its foot down on BDSM and ageplay it destroyed both genres. Before all this incest and stepmom bullshit BDSM was the thing antiporn people whined about and before that was ageplay.

Combine this with amatuer porn exploding this past year and you might have credit card companies basically forcing porn to go financially bankrupt because of some fuckjng lefty journalist.

With the rise of the anti-porn left porn might just be done. All the stars just have only fans at this point and its near fucking impossible to shoot a scenes with all these restrictions. The Harris Decade is going to fuck us all hard.

 

[Return of the Freaker]

Its the biggest one and the company that owns it has most of the porn studios and the most watched tube sites. Basically this might be the end of easily watching pirated porn/amateur porn.

When this company put its foot down on BDSM and ageplay it destroyed both genres. Before all this incest and stepmom bullshit BDSM was the thing antiporn people whined about and before that was ageplay.

Combine this with amatuer porn exploding this past year and you might have credit card companies basically forcing porn to go financially bankrupt because of some fuckjng lefty journalist.

With the rise of the anti-porn left porn might just be done. All the stars just have only fans at this point and its near fucking impossible to shoot a scenes with all these restrictions. The Harris Decade is going to fuck us all hard.

Maybe the Harris Decade will finally be bad enough for some Minecraft?

 

[Sage In All Fields]

Amazing news, when are they removing the rest?