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Exclusive: Pornhub is removing all videos on its site that weren't uploaded by official content partners or members of its model program—meaning a significant portion of its videos will disappear.
vice.com - 4:03 AM · Dec 14, 2020
Pornhub Just Purged All Unverified Content From the Platform
After changing its policies to ban unverified uploaders and Mastercard and Visa's decision to drop the platform entirely, Pornhub has removed millions of videos.
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Pornhub bans user uploads after abuse allegations
Pornhub, one of the world's most visited adult sites, is changing its rules over user uploads after being accused of hosting illegal videos.
A New York Times investigation accused the site of being "infested" with child-abuse and rape-related videos.
Pornhub said the claims were "irresponsible and flagrantly untrue".
But it has now said users must be verified to upload videos and removed its download function, which meant removed content could easily resurface.
The verification feature will launch in the new year, it said. For now, uploads have been removed for all users except industry professionals.
The move follows reports Visa and Mastercard had launched their own investigations into the claims.
If - as the New York Times article had urged - the two payment companies had suspended their services, it would have hit the website's owner, Mindgeek, financially.
Pornhub is generally free to use but offers a subscription service for higher-quality and exclusive videos.
The company has also now issued a statement promising "major steps to further protect our community".
...
Pornhub Upended the Porn Industry. Now New Changes Could Destroy Sex Workers' Livelihoods
At the start of the pandemic, Alex and Cassie, a same-sex, nonbinary, multiracial couple based in Canada, were laid off from their full-time jobs. Scrambling for income, and unable to leave the house because of Alex’s preexisting conditions, Alex and Cassie, who asked to be identified only by their first names to protect their privacy, decided to start selling pornographic content through Pornhub.
On Thursday, credit card processors Visa and Mastercard made a shocking announcement: they would be terminating their relationships with Pornhub. It was part of a series of reforms surrounding the porn behemoth, following an exposé in the New York Times by journalist Nicholas Kristof regarding the presence of videos depicting rape and child sexual abuse on the website. Alex and Cassie reacted to the news with “complete horror and fear.”
“There’s absolutely no work in our area and without paid content on these sites, we’ll lose more than 50 percent of our income,” they tell Rolling Stone. For the first time since the pandemic started, they wondered if they might become homeless. “No other industry cuts someone’s salary in half overnight,” they say. “And it feels terrible, because we have done nothing wrong.”
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'War Against Sex Workers:' What Visa and Mastercard Dropping Pornhub Means to Performers
The world's biggest credit card companies terminated service to Pornhub, and performers on the site say it could seriously harm their livelihoods.
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My own four Playlists on Pornhub, of ADULT men proudly masturbating, solo or together with other ADULT men, have been reduced from nearly 2,000 videos, down to about 220!
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Exclusive: Pornhub is removing all videos on its site that weren't uploaded by official content partners or members of its model program—meaning a significant portion of its videos will disappear.
vice.com - 4:03 AM · Dec 14, 2020
Pornhub Just Purged All Unverified Content From the Platform
After changing its policies to ban unverified uploaders and Mastercard and Visa's decision to drop the platform entirely, Pornhub has removed millions of videos.
...
Pornhub bans user uploads after abuse allegations
Pornhub, one of the world's most visited adult sites, is changing its rules over user uploads after being accused of hosting illegal videos.
A New York Times investigation accused the site of being "infested" with child-abuse and rape-related videos.
Pornhub said the claims were "irresponsible and flagrantly untrue".
But it has now said users must be verified to upload videos and removed its download function, which meant removed content could easily resurface.
The verification feature will launch in the new year, it said. For now, uploads have been removed for all users except industry professionals.
The move follows reports Visa and Mastercard had launched their own investigations into the claims.
If - as the New York Times article had urged - the two payment companies had suspended their services, it would have hit the website's owner, Mindgeek, financially.
Pornhub is generally free to use but offers a subscription service for higher-quality and exclusive videos.
The company has also now issued a statement promising "major steps to further protect our community".
...
Pornhub Upended the Porn Industry. Now New Changes Could Destroy Sex Workers' Livelihoods
At the start of the pandemic, Alex and Cassie, a same-sex, nonbinary, multiracial couple based in Canada, were laid off from their full-time jobs. Scrambling for income, and unable to leave the house because of Alex’s preexisting conditions, Alex and Cassie, who asked to be identified only by their first names to protect their privacy, decided to start selling pornographic content through Pornhub.
On Thursday, credit card processors Visa and Mastercard made a shocking announcement: they would be terminating their relationships with Pornhub. It was part of a series of reforms surrounding the porn behemoth, following an exposé in the New York Times by journalist Nicholas Kristof regarding the presence of videos depicting rape and child sexual abuse on the website. Alex and Cassie reacted to the news with “complete horror and fear.”
“There’s absolutely no work in our area and without paid content on these sites, we’ll lose more than 50 percent of our income,” they tell Rolling Stone. For the first time since the pandemic started, they wondered if they might become homeless. “No other industry cuts someone’s salary in half overnight,” they say. “And it feels terrible, because we have done nothing wrong.”
...
'War Against Sex Workers:' What Visa and Mastercard Dropping Pornhub Means to Performers
The world's biggest credit card companies terminated service to Pornhub, and performers on the site say it could seriously harm their livelihoods.
...
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My own four Playlists on Pornhub, of ADULT men proudly masturbating, solo or together with other ADULT men, have been reduced from nearly 2,000 videos, down to about 220!
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