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Lebronwon
12/09/20 4:57:10 PM
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said Tuesday it was halting unverified users from uploading videos after a New York Times report alleged that the pornographic website was 'infested' with videos of rape and underage sex. The column, written by Nicholas Kristof, asserted that among the 6.8 million new videos posted on the site each year, a majority 'probably involve consenting adults, but many depict child abuse and non-consensual violence.' '[The] site is infested with rape videos. It monetizes child rapes, revenge pornography, spy cam videos of women showering, racist and misogynist content, and footage of women being asphyxiated in plastic bags,' Kristof continued. , the Times said, also lets users download the videos in question directly from its site, which permits anyone to repost the clips repeatedly and without limit. Visa and Mastercard said over the weekend that they were investigating their business relationship with the porn giant in light of the allegations. In response Tuesday, released a statement pledging to take 'major steps to further protect our community.' 'Going forward, we will only allow properly identified users to upload content. We have banned downloads,' the company added. In future, only content partners and those who earn ad revenue from their videos will be permitted to upload videos to the site. 'In the new year, we will implement a verification process so that any user can upload content upon successful completion of identification protocol,' the statement read. Once content has been uploaded, will block downloading content. Users will no longer be allowed to export videos from the site, other than through paid downloads which are triggered through the companys verified system. has also pledged to increase moderation of content currently on the platform through its newly established 'Red Team,' which will be tasked with 'proactively sweeping content already uploaded for potential violations and identifying any breakdowns in the moderation process.'

The company says it will also be releasing its first transparency report in 2021, outlining the results of moderation from the previous year. said that 'every online platform has the moral responsibility' to join in the fight against depictions of child sexual abuse or non-consensual activity. In its statement, the company attributed the seismic policy shift to an independent review it launched in April, geared toward eliminating all illegal content from its platform. However, the move was revealed just four days after Kristof's searing, the Children of, article was published by the Times, and just 24 hours after officials at MasterCard and Visa launched a probe into their business links with site. Kristof's report highlighted a number of young girls who appeared in videos uploaded to without their consent. Even after the videos were flagged and removed, downloaded copies continued to circulate, often with severe personal consequences. 'The issue is not pornography but rape. Let's agree that promoting assaults on children or on anyone without consent is unconscionable,' the report reads 'A search [for specific terms] leads in each case to more than 100,000 videos. Most arent of children being assaulted, but too many are,' Kristof said of the site, which brings in 3.5 billion visits a month, more than Netflix, Yahoo or Amazon. , the 10th most visited website in the world, said in a statement that it has 'no tolerance' for content that shows sexual abuse of children and denied it knowingly allows such images.

The site cant be named here so article and name has to be censored. It the major site that free.



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s0nicfan
12/09/20 4:58:53 PM
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Uploading. They're disabling user video uploads.

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Lebronwon
12/09/20 5:00:50 PM
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s0nicfan posted...
Uploading. They're disabling user video uploads.

Its both. They banning downloads and restricting who can upload.

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NeonOctopus
12/09/20 5:00:56 PM
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Does it start with an X?

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s0nicfan
12/09/20 5:03:25 PM
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Lebronwon posted...
Its both. They banning downloads and restricting who can upload.

Just saw it. I don't know how much good that will actually do because there's a dozen ways to rip video from a site, but at least they're taking steps to trying to address the issue.

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TreyFlowers
12/09/20 5:04:24 PM
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NeonOctopus posted...
Does it start with an X?

or is the hub

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nothanks1
12/09/20 5:05:41 PM
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you can stil download
like they just disabled the ability to do it via account
this is like saying "we don't let people enter" and you lock the door but leave a window open
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Squall28
12/09/20 5:05:42 PM
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Good

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Irony
12/09/20 5:06:00 PM
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I can bypass the direct downloads anyways. Already have to on the hub because I won't get premium

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nothanks1
12/09/20 5:06:33 PM
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also a really fun fact about porn sites that are legitimate
they're one of the least likely ones to give you a virus through ads
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refmon
12/09/20 5:06:36 PM
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lol cant you just download a video downloader addon?

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nemu
12/09/20 5:07:34 PM
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Do they have actual numbers or is it just some vague handwave like every Youtube controversy ? You're always going to have issues with people uploading vile shit on normal websites, let alone a porn-based one. What needs to be stated is if this is longstanding content that's been there for years or a case of someone coming upon something illegal that's normally taken down quickly. The fact that they list "racist and misogynist content" is kind of weird unless they think people don't fetishize weird domination shit like that.
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radical rhino
12/09/20 5:08:30 PM
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Ive never seen anything on that site that looked sketchy.

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s0nicfan
12/09/20 5:10:00 PM
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nemu posted...
Do they have actual numbers or is it just some vague handwave like every Youtube controversy ? You're always going to have issues with people uploading vile shit on normal websites, let alone a porn-based one. What needs to be stated is if this is longstanding content that's been there for years or a case of someone coming upon something illegal that's normally taken down quickly. The fact that they list "racist and misogynist content" is kind of weird unless they think people don't fetishize weird domination shit like that.

You're seeing two things at play. The first is people with an agenda to get rid of porn building up a case against them.that's why it seems like they're throwing in a whole host of accusations at once.

The second is a problem that has been building for about a decade and how to deal with sites that are so large that they can't effectively moderate the volume of content being put up there's no solution for it, yet, but you're seeing bipartisan support and Congress to address the issue through some kind of regulation that probably won't work.

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NeonOctopus
12/09/20 5:10:09 PM
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radical rhino posted...
Ive never seen anything on that site that looked sketchy.
If this is the X site, then I agree >_> I've never seen a shady video in the stuff I search

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nothanks1
12/09/20 5:11:24 PM
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time for a more upsetting fact
most likely there is blackmail and leaked stuff on there. not to mention blatantly kiddie porn
however feds won't care
they go for the suppliers of new stuff and those that circulate it
a random account on a pornsite for adults isn't going to be looked at
it'll just be banned by the site and the same person is going to keep uploading it under a new account

so basically the site is only doing this because people bitched (rightfully but ultimately nobody in power cares) and the government genuinely don't see it as a problem to spend resources on otherwise it would have been banned in countries
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02fran
12/09/20 5:13:53 PM
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Damn, at least no one actually gets hurt in Hentai.
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Gamerguymass
12/09/20 5:13:55 PM
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radical rhino posted...
Ive never seen anything on that site that looked sketchy.

This.

Most likely someone saw something with one of those porn stars that is really short and has small tits and they assumed its child porn. This isn't the first time I have seen this said either, so I have no idea what the fuck these people are searching for that they are allegedly finding all this shit that apparently no one else can.

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nemu
12/09/20 5:17:40 PM
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radical rhino posted...
Ive never seen anything on that site that looked sketchy.
If the stuff does exist in bulk, it could be the uploaders use weird ass upload names so it doesn't get circulated into the algorithm very easily. Though I'm doubtful to the extent that this is an issue. If people are uploading a million videos and only 100 are illegal, then it's not an actual problem worth addressing other than banning those people and reporting the uploading IP address. If people are uploading a million videos and ten thousand are illegal and persist on the site for years at a time without being removed, they may have a point.
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Questionmarktarius
12/09/20 5:21:48 PM
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radical rhino posted...
Ive never seen anything on that site that looked sketchy.
You have to go a bit out out your way to see all the uploads, instead of semi-curated "recently featured", if I'm thinking of the right site.
Plus there's no telling what's hiding behind "private" or whatever "unlisted" options are available on any given site. Why that's even a thing is a mystery.
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Irony
12/09/20 5:49:41 PM
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randy_123r posted...
how does one do this? @Irony
Uh

refmon posted...
lol cant you just download a video downloader addon?


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The Wheelman1
12/09/20 5:53:44 PM
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I never knew this was a thing. I haven't seen anything remotely close to child abuse on those sites.

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Frizzurd
12/09/20 5:54:24 PM
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Sounds like a way to make you have to pay for porn.

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PepsiWithCoke
12/09/20 6:15:03 PM
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Sictis
12/09/20 6:15:57 PM
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meh
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Cornhuskers
12/09/20 7:06:36 PM
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Goodbye Hub sites.

Thanks Trump.
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ledbowman
12/09/20 7:09:12 PM
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imagine having to earmuff the news while there are topics filled with mostly bare tits and asses ect. fuck this dumb ass site

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ledbowman
12/09/20 7:14:31 PM
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perfectly postable but don't say o--- f---
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JumpstyIe
12/09/20 7:22:13 PM
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so that's why i couldnt download things last night. damn.

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Questionmarktarius
12/09/20 7:45:43 PM
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The Wheelman1 posted...
I never knew this was a thing. I haven't seen anything remotely close to child abuse on those sites.
Yeah, this.
The various "view it all!" options just lead to shittons of spam for shady paysites I"m never going to bother with anyway.
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AngelsNAirwav3s
12/09/20 7:48:37 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
Yeah, this.
The various "view it all!" options just lead to shittons of spam for shady paysites I"m never going to bother with anyway.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opinion/sunday/pornhub-rape-trafficking.html

That article was pretty devastating, they are already making drastic changes.

After a 15-year-old girl went missing in Florida, her mother found her on P*****b in 58 sex videos. Sexual assaults on a 14-year-old California girl were posted on P*****b and were reported to the authorities not by the company but by a classmate who saw the videos.

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Questionmarktarius
12/09/20 7:53:02 PM
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Dude. No sitenames on gamefaqs.gamespot.redventures.com, because "reasons".
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-Unowninator-
12/09/20 8:01:56 PM
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AngelsNAirwav3s posted...


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opinion/sunday/pornhub-rape-trafficking.html

That article was pretty devastating, they are already making drastic changes.

After a 15-year-old girl went missing in Florida, her mother found her on P*****b in 58 sex videos. Sexual assaults on a 14-year-old California girl were posted on P*****b and were reported to the authorities not by the company but by a classmate who saw the videos.

That's just fucked up.
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AngelsNAirwav3s
12/09/20 8:12:32 PM
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-Unowninator- posted...
That's just fucked up.

The article also says that the company only has 80 moderators worldwide to review the content, and there is 1.36 million hours of content uploaded every year. Facebook by contrast has 15,000 moderators. Add in the fact that it can be nearly impossible to tell if a girl is 14 or 18 in a video... I am shocked the industry has survived this long unregulated honestly.

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Questionmarktarius
12/09/20 8:24:10 PM
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AngelsNAirwav3s posted...
I am shocked the industry has survived this long unregulated honestly.
That's why PHub and X[rodent] are based in Cyprus, and X[not-audios] is based in Czech Republic.

Trying to regulate internet porn is the rough equivalent of not letting your kids watch PG-13 movies: they're just going to it somewhere else, where you can't really do anything about it.
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JoeThe12th
12/09/20 8:24:27 PM
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AngelsNAirwav3s posted...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opinion/sunday/pornhub-rape-trafficking.html

That article was pretty devastating, they are already making drastic changes.

After a 15-year-old girl went missing in Florida, her mother found her on P*****b in 58 sex videos. Sexual assaults on a 14-year-old California girl were posted on P*****b and were reported to the authorities not by the company but by a classmate who saw the videos.

Fucking depressing article.
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Questionmarktarius
12/09/20 8:25:40 PM
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Guys!
The site name is still the URL. Pay attention here.
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NeonOctopus
12/09/20 8:27:36 PM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
Guys!
The site name is still the URL. Pay attention here.
shut the fuck up

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Questionmarktarius
12/09/20 8:28:54 PM
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NeonOctopus posted...
shut the fuck up
Alright. Have fun with your bullshit moderations then.
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thronedfire2
12/09/20 8:30:37 PM
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I've noticed that on the x site people who upload videos already have to upload verification videos of themselves. probably for like a year now?

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Questionmarktarius
12/09/20 8:31:59 PM
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thronedfire2 posted...
the x site
rodent or not-audios?
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thronedfire2
12/09/20 8:39:05 PM
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motion pictures

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Questionmarktarius
12/09/20 8:42:20 PM
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thronedfire2 posted...
motion pictures
That one is still based in Europe. Makes sense.
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Cornhuskers
12/09/20 9:53:24 PM
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FOSTA & SESTA can be enforced worldwide?

Remember Kickass T and #DrinkOrDie release groups? Obama and Bush Jr. got them!
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ExtremeLuchador
12/09/20 10:04:59 PM
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The list of approved uploaders will be stolen in a month. People will get doxxed and lose their jobs.

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whitelytning
12/09/20 10:31:13 PM
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ledbowman posted...
imagine having to earmuff the news while there are topics filled with mostly bare tits and asses ect. fuck this dumb ass site

This is what I was thinking. I didn't even know you can't say it. How does that make sense?


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Intro2Logic
12/11/20 4:34:11 PM
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https://twitter.com/chimeracoder/status/1337186894606635008


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