[Possible NSFW warning] No more jerking here - PornHub remove all non-verified content

[williamcll]

After multiple cases of child abuse as well as content creators found to be underage, pornographic sharing website Pornhub has removed millions of videos and photos from their site.

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Pornhub is removing all videos on its site that weren't uploaded by official content partners or members of its model program, a fundamental shift in the way one of the largest porn sites in the world operates. This means a significant portion of its videos will disappear. "As part of our policy to ban unverified uploaders, we have now also suspended all previously uploaded content that was not created by content partners or members of the Model Program," according to Pornhub's announcement. "This means every piece of Pornhub content is from verified uploaders, a requirement that platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat and Twitter have yet to institute." Pornhub said the videos will be removed pending verification and review, and the verification process will begin in the new year. Prior to this change, anyone could create an account on Pornhub and upload any video they wanted to, since the platform's launch in 2007.

 

Pornhub made the policy change on Tuesday to ban all unverified users from uploading or downloading content to the site, and said it would expand its moderation efforts. But by Thursday, Mastercard and Visa announced that they'd both stop processing payments with the site altogether. Visa's announcement specifically stated it would drop all of the Mindgeek network, which includes a number of adult sites, including Redtube, Youporn, XTube, and Brazzers.

Before the content purge on Sunday evening, Pornhub hosted around 13.5 million videos according to the number displayed on the site's search bar, a large number of them from unverified accounts. On Monday morning as of 9 a.m., that search bar is showing only 4.7 million videos, meaning Pornhub removed most of the videos on its site, including the most-viewed non-verified amateur video, which had more than 29 million views. That number briefly went back up to 7.2 million, so at the moment it’s unclear how many videos will be removed.

Source: https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgqjjy/pornhub-suspended-all-unverified-videos-content

Thought: Considering that I have never watched any porngraphic content ever I really can't comment much on site that just removed half of their contents, though I think this might be a big setback for those who wish to further legalize or monetize prostitution.

[PlayStation 2]

Meh, e621 was better anyways.

[duncannah]

That's why archiving is important

[Moonzy]

Is the bee movie still on there?

That's all that matters

[poochyena]

More and more websites with user generated content will have the take youtube's approach in aggressively removing content that might have even a chance of being illegal. Its a struggle between unrestricted uploads and striking down illegal content. Its a tough balance to manage with any site that allows user generated content. The more you allow, the more illegal content you could be welcoming, which means more you have to moderate, which becomes more costly

[Teddy07]

Serves people right who made fun of me because I download my stuff. Who is laughing now?

[Downkey]

The site had like 1.5B monthly visits last year.
80% of them were me but that's besides the point

[IAmAndre]

My only concern with that is the Pornhub group already has policies in place preventing child porn. Now so many creators see their content stolen or have a hard time deleting it because of how annoying the procedures can be. Some have their lives ruined because of these videos. And now they are deleting without their consent, content from people who willingly uploaded these videos and are therefore losing millions of views.

[mahyar]

1 minute ago, Downkey said:

The site had like 1.5B monthly visits last year.
80% of them were me but that's besides the point

like for real?

thats surprising i did not know people have so much interest in porn

[IAmAndre]

Just now, mahyar said:

like for real?

thats surprising i did not know people have so much interest in porn

It's one of the biggest digital industries. The numbers have increased even further with the covid and sites like Onlyfans are booming.

[Downkey]

1 minute ago, mahyar said:

like for real?

thats surprising i did not know people have so much interest in porn

nah only time I've been on there was when my friend was screensharing it on discord as a joke LOL

[Letgomyleghoe]

10 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

Is the bee movie still on there?

That's all that matters

agreed, I've watched the bee movie on pornhub at least five times

[mahyar]

1 minute ago, IAmAndre said:

It's one of the biggest digital industries. The numbers have increased even further with the covid and sites like Onlyfans are booming.

where is humanity going 

[FloRolf]

Ah that's why I couldn't fi... I mean that's good, they should definitely strictly monitor what's being uploaded to disgusting websites like this! 

[trag1c]

21 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

Is the bee movie still on there?

That's all that matters

Can't forget about the panty raid episode of spongebob in the SFW section lol

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

4 minutes ago, Grand Admiral Thrawn said:

Imagine YouTube removing all content from non-verified creators. All the Hindu tutorials we have been educated by.

It's not just that, there are some pretty big communities around channels that are not verified. Like take this guy for example:

 

So while I applaud PornHub (yay Canadian company) for taking a big step towards purging child abuse and underage porn on the site, it seems to me they simply choose the simplest way out by purging everything that isn't verified. 

 

I can only hope this wouldn't have implications for other sites. 

[Alexeygridnev1993]

8 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

It's not just that, there are some pretty big communities around channels that are not verified. Like take this guy for example:

 

So while I applaud PornHub (yay Canadian company) for taking a big step towards purging child abuse and underage porn on the site, it seems to me they simply choose the simplest way out by purging everything that isn't verified. 

 

I can only hope this wouldn't have implications for other sites. 

I don't think it will. Mindgeek is desperately trying to shield itself from civil and criminal lawsuits and to unblock the payments, so they've done the crudest thing possible. I cannot imagine a scenario under which Youtube would be forced to do the same

[Gaires]

16 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

So while I applaud PornHub (yay Canadian company) for taking a big step towards purging child abuse and underage porn on the site

Which won't change a thing. Those people will just move on to the next site and upload to that one instead.

This is like going around forest fire and extuingishing invidual bushes that are on fire.

[bit]

15 minutes ago, Gaires said:

Which won't change a thing. Those people will just move on to the next site and upload to that one instead.

This is like going around forest fire and extuingishing invidual bushes that are on fire.

this is a wild thought train you have going on here. because they can't eliminate something 100% means they shouldn't work on doing something about it? so you just want all the abuse and underage stuff to stay up on pornhub? 

[SpaceGhostC2C]

1 hour ago, williamcll said:

I think this might be a big setback for those who wish to further legalize or monetize prostitution.

I don't see why: the reason fro this move was to get rid of underage content, non-consensual acts, or lack of consent to make public. And since it has surely taken some legitimate yet amateur content, I'd say it has increased the opportunities for professional adult videos (which is a form of legal prostitution).

 

1 hour ago, IAmAndre said:

My only concern with that is the Pornhub group already has policies in place preventing child porn.

Well, the problem was that those policies weren't very effective, so they were risking the whole site coming down:

 

 

[WkdPaul]

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If you're not interested in discussing the subject and just want to troll, then please don't reply and move on ;

 

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No trolling or flame-bait.

 

[LAwLz]

I find it very scary that two companies (Visa and Mastercard) basically controls the entire Internet.

If they feel like you have done something bad, then they can basically make sure you can't get paid. 

 

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Very, very bad news for everyone.

 

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Some random thoughts about it and why I think it is bad:

• I find it very scary that two companies (Visa and Mastercard) basically controls the entire Internet. If they feel like you have done something bad, then they can basically make sure you can't get paid. Imagine if Visa and Mastercard (strange how they usually decide to cancel someone at the same time, right? Not the first time it has happened) decided that "nahh, LinusTechTips is bad" and then just flat out blocked all Visa and Mastercard transactions to them. We see a lot of talk about monopolies these days but nobody seems to bat an eye at Visa and Mastercard. If you ask me, it's about time they get regulated.
   
• The New York Times article that caused this was loaded to the brim with bullshit. They didn't actually find any child porn despite the article really trying to push that narrative. What the moron with an agenda at the NYT found were playlists with titles such as "the best collection of young boys". The videos were not actually of underage people, but rather a clickbaity playlist video that contained adult porn. That's why the article never actually says they found child porn. Only that it things that seemed to imply child porn, or things that could have been child porn.
   
• Companies should not be punished for user generated content as long as they act upon reports of illegal content. This is what the entire Internet is founded upon. Imagine if Linus could get blocked by Visa and Mastercard just because a bunch of users and I decide to spam the site with copyrighted movies or whatever.
   
• The total amount of child porn found on Pornhub by the Internet Watch Foundation over the last 3 years were 118 pictures/videos. By comparison, they found 84,000,000 pictures and videos of child porn on Facebook. There is literally 71186340% more child porn on Facebook than on Pornhub, yet Pornhub is the one in trouble. Why?
   
• Verified on Pornhub is pretty much useless. It's not like on Twitter or Youtube where you need to be famous to get verified. You literally get verified by submitting a picture of you holding up a sign with your username. You can grab a random picture from Reddit /r/roastme has a ton), edit in your username on a paper/sign and get verified. 

[IkeaGnome]

57 minutes ago, BlueChinchillaEatingDorito said:

It's not just that, there are some pretty big communities around channels that are not verified. Like take this guy for example:

 

So while I applaud PornHub (yay Canadian company) for taking a big step towards purging child abuse and underage porn on the site, it seems to me they simply choose the simplest way out by purging everything that isn't verified. 

 

I can only hope this wouldn't have implications for other sites. 

I'll see if I can find a link somewhere. Apparently, PH is saying that the non verified "stuff" hasn't been deleted. Only delisted. They also said they plan on adding an "amateur verification" after the first of the year.

It seems like they got spooked hard, reacted heavily to put a stop to it, and have some sort of a plan to "go back to how it was" without the "wild west freedom"

Edit: Found the article

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In the short term, that will restrict uploads to content partners and members of the platform’s Model Program, although Pornhub plans to roll out a broader verification process for regular users in 2021.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/8/22164031/pornhub-upload-limit-blocked-download-nyt-kristof-child-abuse

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

9 minutes ago, LAwLz said:

I find it very scary that two companies (Visa and Mastercard) basically controls the entire Internet.

If they feel like you have done something bad, then they can basically make sure you can't get paid. 

When you realize those two can literally take down Amazon if they wanted to... If they stop servicing Amazon for whatever reason... oh boy... there's 2/3s of your payment options gone. (Not like people have a stockpile of Amazon gift cards)

[Lurick]

24 minutes ago, bit said:

this is a wild thought train you have going on here. because they can't eliminate something 100% means they shouldn't work on doing something about it? so you just want all the abuse and underage stuff to stay up on pornhub? 

When it shows up on reputable sites they are (usually) working with law enforcement agencies to go after the producers of this stuff. Now they'll move to more shady and less cooperative sites making them harder to track, find, and bring to justice. I remember the same thing with sex trafficking and whatnot moving off craigslist and the like. Now those who want to stop it have a harder time doing so because the people are working with sites that don't cooperate with law enforcement making the problem worse.