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> They're doing their best to police a giant platform that everyone in the world wants to use and abuse. It doesn’t really sound like they’re doing their best

> They're doing their best to police a giant platform that everyone in the world wants to use and abuse. It doesn’t really sound like they’re doing their best though, when they offer an aggressive content take-down service to their paying customers but not to victims of exploitation from whom they’ve (knowingly or unknowingly) profited.

INTPenis 6y ago
Sure but put yourself in their position for a minute. How does pornhub even receive notice of this video being posted? How many others contact ph through this channel? How many of these cases are bogus and lead nowhere? Remember that this is the internet. If you open up any communication channel to your massive website you will be flooded with junk. So just to maintain a communication channel with the outside world is an entire project in itself. Probably requires its own manager and employees working full time with nothing but handling cases. And despite all this ph did respond on this case, they even tried sending takedown requests to OTHER SITES. Imo they did truly do their best. But the problem goes beyond pornhub. It's an internet problem. There is no simple resolution to this problem, unless you want to lock down the entire internet. And despite all these difficulties the stories posted still mention Pornhub as the problem. Pornhub is not the problem here. But I would not be surprised if Pornhub comes up with a solution. if coinbase can verify your identity to open an account with them then surely Pornhub can do the same for uploaders.
- symlinkk 6y ago
  They already have a program that verifies the identity of uploaders called Verified Amateurs, and last year after the NYT published their hit piece and Visa stopped processing payments to them, they removed all amateur videos that weren’t Verified Amateurs, which was most of them. What’s sad is that you’re having to read this from me, instead of from the original article linked above, that someone who has a college degree in journalism was paid to write.
  - bryan_w 6y ago
    > What’s sad is that you’re having to read this from me, instead of from the original article linked above, that someone who has a college degree in journalism was paid to write. Exactly. Also the fact that none of their journalism colleagues wont call out this bad piece of work, reinforces that the news media really isnt trustworthy these days.

INTPenis 6y ago

Sure but put yourself in their position for a minute. How does pornhub even receive notice of this video being posted? How many others contact ph through this channel? How many of these cases are bogus and lead nowhere? Remember that this is the internet. If you open up any communication channel to your massive website you will be flooded with junk. So just to maintain a communication channel with the outside world is an entire project in itself. Probably requires its own manager and employees working full time with nothing but handling cases. And despite all this ph did respond on this case, they even tried sending takedown requests to OTHER SITES. Imo they did truly do their best. But the problem goes beyond pornhub. It's an internet problem. There is no simple resolution to this problem, unless you want to lock down the entire internet. And despite all these difficulties the stories posted still mention Pornhub as the problem. Pornhub is not the problem here. But I would not be surprised if Pornhub comes up with a solution. if coinbase can verify your identity to open an account with them then surely Pornhub can do the same for uploaders.

symlinkk 6y ago
They already have a program that verifies the identity of uploaders called Verified Amateurs, and last year after the NYT published their hit piece and Visa stopped processing payments to them, they removed all amateur videos that weren’t Verified Amateurs, which was most of them. What’s sad is that you’re having to read this from me, instead of from the original article linked above, that someone who has a college degree in journalism was paid to write.
- bryan_w 6y ago
  > What’s sad is that you’re having to read this from me, instead of from the original article linked above, that someone who has a college degree in journalism was paid to write. Exactly. Also the fact that none of their journalism colleagues wont call out this bad piece of work, reinforces that the news media really isnt trustworthy these days.