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> Until late last year, it probably didn’t take more than an email address to post photos and videos on XVideos. Accessible to a potential audience of millions.
by mccorrinall 5y ago
> Until late last year, it probably didn’t take more than an email address to post photos and videos on XVideos. Accessible to a potential audience of millions. These were very low hurdles for people who wanted to distribute recordings of others without their consent, so-called voyeur recordings or „revenge porn.“
So what? Even if I'd require e.g. a phone number of every uploader it wouldn't change a thing. XVideos would still only be able to react, not preact. Content would still remain online, until someone reports it.
If someone uploads your porn tape and you're the original author, just send a DMCA and it gets taken down. No problemo.
- rbanffy 5y ago> XVideos would still only be able to react, not preact. The less anonymous the poster is, the easier it gets for law enforcement to find them and enforce the laws against posting revenge porn or unconsented videos. Once a video is marked that way, it's relatively trivial to remove other instances of it.
- transforming 5y ago> The less anonymous the poster is, the easier it gets for law enforcement But this would have a horrifying, chilling effect on marginalized communities. Anonymity allows for one to publish marginalized interest works and trans-oriented contents. This is especially important for less-than-safe jurisdictions, for which even bog-standard sex workers may well find themselves in the crosshairs of a fascist government, or even grass-roots persecution from far-right sources using hacked data! It is, after all, only a matter of time for most any web site in this day and age for a user-data compromise. These kinds of policies lead to harassment, violence, and imprisonment for many.
- AlecSchueler 5y agoAgreed but the lack of these kinds of policies also lead to harassment and violence for many, so it's clear a discussion needs to be had.
- strangeattractr 5y agoI would choose reducing real harm caused by the actual distribution of abuse material (anyone can be abused in this way even in marginalised communities) if the only cost was potentially chilling the distribution of trans-oriented adult content. Seems like a small price to pay to reduce the effects of one of the worst things the internet has enabled.
- mccorrinall 5y agoSurely national ID cards will help against these porn videos. Like they did help against terrorism. And credit card fraud. Or cheating in Chinese video games. IDs don't prove your real identity, especially online.
- rbanffy 5y agoWho mentioned national ID cards?
- mccorrinall 5y agoThe article complains about the low hurdles which xvideos has for creating a new account (they only require an email). I can’t think of anything else than phone numbers and IDs which they could require for uploaders. Do you have any other ideas?
- rbanffy 5y agoA phone number helps a bit. In many places buying a handset or a SIM will leave some paper track the police can follow.
- mschuster91 5y ago> If someone uploads your porn tape and you're the original author, just send a DMCA and it gets taken down. No problemo. Unfortunately, it's not as easy. The tube sites have understaffed support and, as the credit card processing ban on Pornhub has shown, consistently made life hell for affected people. These sites are blatantly ignoring even the most basic requirements of being good citizens of the Internet.