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.

 

[Yeeted Teet]

While it's concerning that payment processors are the ones passing judgement rather than the proper authorities, I'm seeing some spectacular meltdowns from cumbrained losers upset that that their favourite wank material disappeared.

 

[Archie_Kimkicker]

Friendly reminder that Kiwitards were sucking corporate cock as late as 2018.

Fuck off, Sundar. Go poop on your lawn (ie not in the street) like a good boy.

 

[Syaoran Li]

The payment processors have way too much power and I'm afraid they cannot be stopped and even if the Feds would actually get off their asses and do more than just "monitor the situation", I'm sure the payment processors would find a way to fuck over the federal government somehow.

Even if a major company stood up to them, they'd find a way to win in the end.

It's 2020. Nothing good can ever happen and nothing good will ever happen.

The payment processors and Silicon Valley are solidifying the control they have had over our lives for quite some time.

 

[bigbombguy2222]

"I felt a disturbance in the force. As if millions of coomers cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced."

 

[Archie_Kimkicker]

So blacked will be the only approved porn.

This is what the anti-porn crowd seems to not understand. Taking away the ability of independent porn producers to upload is not going to curb pornography. There is no relationship between narrowing the number of suppliers and the evaporation of demand. In fact, I anticipate a skyrocket in the normalization and spreading of porn. Expect mainstream media to actively push it on children overtly. What will change is that there will be no independent news voices on youtube, twitter, etc. who will call it out. What you are seeing now is the first domino.

 

[Roast Chicken]

Meh. Less degeneracy can't be a bad thing, imho.

 

[Shadfan666xxx000]

What kind of limpdicked, puritanical cesspool has the internet become? Not only are payment processors trying to now stamp out a staple of the internet, but we must also deal with prudes all over the place cheering them on and looking on with utter apathy at best. Even a couple years ago we could all agree to save what we could for exhentai for the art it was but now we turn our noses up at our fellow man? Must we now defend our case for sleaze in the greatest medium of all for complete and utter depravity in a world scrubbed clean otherwise?

 

[Archie_Kimkicker]

What kind of limpdicked, puritanical cesspool has the internet become? Not only are payment processors trying to now stamp out a staple of the internet, but we must also deal with prudes all over the place cheering them on and looking on with utter apathy at best. Even a couple years ago we could all agree to save what we could for exhentai for the art it was but now we turn our noses up at our fellow man? Must we now defend our case for sleaze in the greatest medium of all for complete and utter depravity in a world scrubbed clean otherwise?

Cultural re-engineering cannot occur unless every outlet conforms to the plan. Some people think I'm being too paranoid, but just you wait!

 

[draggs]

Lol so they're so dumb that not only is it only "verified" content can be uploaded

They've locked every "unverified" video on their entire network of sites

Aka like >95% of their videos

Sure hope those paypigs are gonna make up for losing over 90% of their ad revenue

Dicks no longer out for pornhub, redtube, etc.

 

[April Ryan]

As if any of this affects anything. Who the fuck actually uses pornhub for porn? Most of the "porn" is basically just trailers for mindgeeks paid sites.

Other than normies who don't know what a torrent is, the people who will be negatively affected by this are the people who use pornhub as "adult youtube".

Shit like lets plays for porn games and all the sfm/blender animators who use it as a reliable place to upload game characters fucking each other.

The actual free distribution of live action porn, let alone the fucked up shit, will not be slowed by this in the slightest.

 

[Piga Dgrifm]

Just jack off to cartoons like us normal people.

 

[kcbbq]

You WILL watch corporate approved porn peasant.

Mmmmm Party created prolefeed is the best.

 

[Xarpho]

What kind of limpdicked, puritanical cesspool has the internet become? Not only are payment processors trying to now stamp out a staple of the internet, but we must also deal with prudes all over the place cheering them on and looking on with utter apathy at best. Even a couple years ago we could all agree to save what we could for exhentai for the art it was but now we turn our noses up at our fellow man? Must we now defend our case for sleaze in the greatest medium of all for complete and utter depravity in a world scrubbed clean otherwise?

A few things going on here.

The "establishment" that wants to run the world and by extension, the Internet, isn't interested in Judeochristian morality. They want to only have porn from "approved" sources. A free-for-all site that hosts re-uploaded content and user-created content isn't part of that. The alternative is it gets slowly rebuilt in their new vision. And just you wait until YouTube does the same thing.

The "prudes" are a mixture of hardcore anti-pornography groups (and not just the "no fap" crowd), anti-trafficking groups, and people who are whining about revenge porn (anyone who is a "victim" of that is either just as shitty or at the very least irresponsible).

 

[the new ford bronco]

How many people do you think killed themselves over this? i think more than 10

 

[ColtWalker1847]

This is what the anti-porn crowd seems to not understand. Taking away the ability of independent porn producers to upload is not going to curb pornography. There is no relationship between narrowing the number of suppliers and the evaporation of demand. In fact, I anticipate a skyrocket in the normalization and spreading of porn. Expect mainstream media to actively push it on children overtly. What will change is that there will be no independent news voices on youtube, twitter, etc. who will call it out. What you are seeing now is the first domino.

So... the way things were pre-internet. Except there was still independent media and Larry Flynt out there back then.

Take your meds.

 

[Gloomy guest]

Make sense from their perspective: Pornhub doesn't even show full length scenes, they just want to get the coomersseurs who are prepared to pay for that shit to sign up for their premium subscription and their other affiliated paid sites. The big trend now is "girl next door" OnlyFans thots selling you lingerie pictures with your name written on their ass in red lipstick, Pornhub is going to try jumping on that bandwagon and hoping they start using Pornhub. No self-respecting degenerate uses Pornhub anyway, that's why xvideos, xhamster and motherless etc. exist.

 

[Niggaplease]

This is what the anti-porn crowd seems to not understand. Taking away the ability of independent porn producers to upload is not going to curb pornography. There is no relationship between narrowing the number of suppliers and the evaporation of demand. In fact, I anticipate a skyrocket in the normalization and spreading of porn. Expect mainstream media to actively push it on children overtly. What will change is that there will be no independent news voices on youtube, twitter, etc. who will call it out. What you are seeing now is the first domino.

I dont see how requiring "independent" porn producers to atleast verify their legal adults before posting their porn on their platform. If you make porn for others consumption then it should be that your legally required to prove you any one else involved are of legal age. Chaturbate does this shit all the time you dont verify you dont get paid. If anything I think it would cull cp being uploaded.

 

[Zero0]

I dont see how requiring "independent" porn producers to atleast verify their legal adults before posting their porn on their platform. If you make porn for others consumption then it should be that your legally required to prove you any one else involved are of legal age. Chaturbate does this shit all the time you dont verify you dont get paid. If anything I think it would cull cp being uploaded.

If they're not making money off of it, then no they shouldn't.

 

[Niggaplease]

If they're not making money off of it, then no they shouldn't.

So just because of a few cents, that means we should turn a blind eye to exploitation? You are aware cp has been uploaded on porn hub before right? By allowing unverifiable users uploading what ever with out as so much as checking for ID it has caused cp and rape videos being posted with out notice, and therefore has harmed people in the process. The current system before that wasn't working, and even professionally produced porn requires Id verification.
Simply put everyone should be held to a certain standard.

 

[Zero0]

So just because of a few cents, that means we should turn a blind eye to exploitation? You are aware cp has been uploaded on porn hub before right? By allowing unverifiable users uploading what ever with out as so much as checking for ID it has caused cp and rape videos being posted with out notice, and therefore has harmed people in the process. The current system before that wasn't working, and even professionally produced porn requires Id verification.
Simply put everyone should be held to a certain standard.

Mate fuck off, there's way more exploitation of children on instagram or tiktok than pornhub lol.

I'm sure tons of people will be lining up to get their ID associated with their porn, it won't make pornhub a major target at all.

People getting their panties in a bunch because of a few incidents.