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How are they supposed to prevent these videos from being posted? The ones doing the posting are anonymous users, not port hub. Any site that has user submitted

How are they supposed to prevent these videos from being posted? The ones doing the posting are anonymous users, not port hub. Any site that has user submitted content faces this issue. It is generally in feasible for them to manually review every submission so they are dependent on other users reporting the violations. On the other hand, they should be very responsive when content is reported and at least block it until they can do some review. Waiting for an extended period of time is unacceptable.

Spare_account 7y ago
So let's change the law and force them to moderate the content before it's published. They'll have to slow the rate of new content being made available until their moderators can keep up.
ocdtrekkie 7y ago
If it's infeasible for the business to operate ethically, the business shouldn't operate. But the resolution isn't impossible, especially for a company of MindGeek's scale: Remove anonymous uploads entirely. Require channels establish their and their performers legal identity (which for monetization, many have to do anyways), and require metadata on all performers in any video (presumably allowing them to publicly display as anonymous or with a stage name as adequate), and verify the consent of those performers to be posted on that channel.
Seenso 7y ago
> It is generally [infeasible] for them to manually review every submission so they are dependent on other users reporting the violations. It may be economically infeasible for them to moderate, but economics is not a "get out of ethics free" card. IMHO, we've gotten too comfortable with tech companies passing the buck on negative externalities that they create or profit from. We wouldn't accept a "can't do it, not economically feasible" answer from an industrial chemicals company that's been asked to stop polluting a river, and I don't see why PornHub should be any different.

Spare_account 7y ago

So let's change the law and force them to moderate the content before it's published. They'll have to slow the rate of new content being made available until their moderators can keep up.

ocdtrekkie 7y ago

If it's infeasible for the business to operate ethically, the business shouldn't operate. But the resolution isn't impossible, especially for a company of MindGeek's scale: Remove anonymous uploads entirely. Require channels establish their and their performers legal identity (which for monetization, many have to do anyways), and require metadata on all performers in any video (presumably allowing them to publicly display as anonymous or with a stage name as adequate), and verify the consent of those performers to be posted on that channel.

Seenso 7y ago

> It is generally [infeasible] for them to manually review every submission so they are dependent on other users reporting the violations. It may be economically infeasible for them to moderate, but economics is not a "get out of ethics free" card. IMHO, we've gotten too comfortable with tech companies passing the buck on negative externalities that they create or profit from. We wouldn't accept a "can't do it, not economically feasible" answer from an industrial chemicals company that's been asked to stop polluting a river, and I don't see why PornHub should be any different.