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Two points of contention: 1) How wide do you cast the net for accountability? Bad content is a subset of unverified content, unverified content is a subset of
by mrkeen 6y ago
Two points of contention:
1) How wide do you cast the net for accountability?
Bad content is a subset of unverified content, unverified content is a subset of Pornhub, Pornhub is a subset of an ISP's traffic and a subset of CC companies' revenue. How much good do you want to ban with the bad?
2) Why not actual law & order?
I would guess a lot of fans of unverified content also dislike bad actors, and would like to see them investigated/prosecuted, rather than 'deplatformed'. 200 OKs for the good actors and gaoltime for the bad actors, rather than 401s for everyone.
- ce4 6y agoPornhub and the (formerly named) company Manwin grew their business mostly on pirated content only to buy large porn studios later on with the gains. It surely helped that the industry wasnt too litigous and judges surely were reluctant to support such cases where the whole industry may be perceived as morally objectionable and indecent by parts of the society. Der Spiegel Magazin has an 8 year old article on Pornhub and its German founder, it's lengthy but worth a read: https://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/fabian-thylmann-and-his-revolutionary-porn-business-model-a-873802.html https://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/fabian-thylma...
- sequoia 6y agoTo these commenters: are you unaware of the issue of child porn, revenge porn, stolen content* and videos of actual rapes being uploaded to Pornhub, and Pornhub making money off of this content? If you are aware of this (the core issue), you should be grappling with these issues rather than ignoring them. Sure I’ll answer your questions, but you go first & answer mine :) Agree that jail is better, if that’s an option I’ll take it. But if the options are “let a company make money off rape/cp/etc” or don’t let them do that, I’ll take the latter.