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"Decided to purge" because they had constantly ignored pleas to remove abusive and/or illegal content from their platform and were in danger of attention from t

by gtf21 5y ago

"Decided to purge" because they had constantly ignored pleas to remove abusive and/or illegal content from their platform and were in danger of attention from the judicial arm of the state?

gremloni 5y ago
I don’t believe a small minority of content should effect an action on 99.9% of all content uploaded.
formerly_proven 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_Cry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_Cry
- gtf21 5y ago
  Relevant section: > In February 2020, the organization's Director of Abolition, Laila Mickelwait, launched a petition to shut down the adult website Pornhub. Mickelwait's campaign using the hashtag "#Traffickinghub" was co-sponsored by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, an anti-pornography organization formerly known as Morality in Media. By September, the campaign had gained over two million signatures, and on December 10, following an opinion column by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof alleging the site was being used to share sex abuse videos,[9] Visa and Mastercard stopped allowing Pornhub to accept credit card transactions.[10] Shortly after, the Canadian Parliament began conducting hearings to investigate the allegations against PornHub.[11] In December 2020, Pornhub's parent company MindGeek was sued in California on allegations of hosting non-consensual videos produced by GirlsDoPorn, which allegedly coerced women into appearing in their videos under false pretenses. In January 2021, a class action lawsuit making similar allegations was launched in Montreal, seeking $600 million in damages for anyone whose intimate photos and videos had been shared on MindGeek's sites without their consent.[12] In June 2021, another class-action lawsuit by 34 additional women was filed against Mindgeek in federal court, alleging that the company had exploited them and hosted and promoted videos that depicted rape, revenge porn, and child sexual abuse.[13]
- fourtrees 5y ago
  I wonder if they've read that part of the bible where the madam in Jericho saves the Jewish spies using her brothel as a safehouse and thereby helps facilitate the capture of the city.
  - mleonhard 5y ago
    "Capture of the city" is an understatement. The story says [0] the Jews murdered nearly everyone in the city of Jericho. The madam betrayed her entire city to genocide. Fortunately, the story is a myth [1]. [0] https://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0606.htm https://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0606.htm [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jericho#Origins_and_historicity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jericho#Origins_and_...

by gtf21 5y ago

"Decided to purge" because they had constantly ignored pleas to remove abusive and/or illegal content from their platform and were in danger of attention from the judicial arm of the state?

gremloni 5y ago

I don’t believe a small minority of content should effect an action on 99.9% of all content uploaded.

formerly_proven 5y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_Cry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_Cry

gtf21 5y ago
Relevant section: > In February 2020, the organization's Director of Abolition, Laila Mickelwait, launched a petition to shut down the adult website Pornhub. Mickelwait's campaign using the hashtag "#Traffickinghub" was co-sponsored by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, an anti-pornography organization formerly known as Morality in Media. By September, the campaign had gained over two million signatures, and on December 10, following an opinion column by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof alleging the site was being used to share sex abuse videos,[9] Visa and Mastercard stopped allowing Pornhub to accept credit card transactions.[10] Shortly after, the Canadian Parliament began conducting hearings to investigate the allegations against PornHub.[11] In December 2020, Pornhub's parent company MindGeek was sued in California on allegations of hosting non-consensual videos produced by GirlsDoPorn, which allegedly coerced women into appearing in their videos under false pretenses. In January 2021, a class action lawsuit making similar allegations was launched in Montreal, seeking $600 million in damages for anyone whose intimate photos and videos had been shared on MindGeek's sites without their consent.[12] In June 2021, another class-action lawsuit by 34 additional women was filed against Mindgeek in federal court, alleging that the company had exploited them and hosted and promoted videos that depicted rape, revenge porn, and child sexual abuse.[13]
fourtrees 5y ago
I wonder if they've read that part of the bible where the madam in Jericho saves the Jewish spies using her brothel as a safehouse and thereby helps facilitate the capture of the city.
- mleonhard 5y ago
  "Capture of the city" is an understatement. The story says [0] the Jews murdered nearly everyone in the city of Jericho. The madam betrayed her entire city to genocide. Fortunately, the story is a myth [1]. [0] https://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0606.htm https://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0606.htm [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jericho#Origins_and_historicity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jericho#Origins_and_...