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> Which is mostly coming from the religious right who are big funders/power-holders and dislike sexual imagery and non-fundamental norms in the public eye. The
by rkk3 5y ago
> Which is mostly coming from the religious right who are big funders/power-holders and dislike sexual imagery and non-fundamental norms in the public eye.
The Religious Right? Nicholas Kristof of the NYT, is probably the most powerful individual sex censor - the guy singlehandedly got Pornhub financially de-platformed!
- devmor 5y agoTo be fair, getting pornhub punished wasn't hard. They were hosting child pornography.
- rkk3 5y agoIt wasn't hard to de-platform them because they are a vice company, not because of what was on there servers unintentionally. By your standard Meta/FB/Insta are much worse perpetrators of hosting child pornography
- devmor 5y agoThose companies don't actively give people money to produce that content though. I'm not denying that being a porn company made it easier, but let's not compare what was going on there to what goes on in the private messages of nearly any website large enough.
- IfOnlyYouKnew 5y agoPornhub's problem wasn't sex. It was revenge porn, authentic rape videos, and all the other content you will host if you allow anonymous uploads. Not seeing that there is a difference between content intended for public distribution and content that is not is arguably part of the problem here. (Or, even worse, considering someone having sex and someone being raped to be morally equivalent.)
- rkk3 5y ago> Pornhub's problem wasn't sex. It was revenge porn, authentic rape videos, and all the other content you will host if you allow anonymous uploads. Meta/FB/Insta/Whatsapp/Messenger were & are responsible for facilitating significantly more of all of the above terrible things. Of course the problem was sex and that they are a vice company, it made them an easy moral outrage target.