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comment by CrazyEyeJoe
CrazyEyeJoe  ·  1205 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: NYT | The Children of Pornhub

Isn't the point of the article that by not implementing these simple solutions, they are complicit?





goobster  ·  1204 days ago  ·  link  ·  

No...? The writer points out all the terrible terms that people can search for ... and then talks about how PornHub returns X number of videos for those terrible terms.

The reader is left to guess that PornHub is responsible for the terms that produce the results, when the actual fact is that the uploader hand-typed in the terms.

What PornHub needs to do is penalize account owners - with massive, instant, unreversible bans - the incentivize posters not to post such content or tags.

The author never makes it clear who defined the repugnant terms being used, and therefore the reader is left with only one culprit to point a finger at. It's not like PornHub has a folder named "Choking 13-year old" and someone uploaded a video to that folder.... the uploader chose to upload that vide and that tag, and therefore should be punished by being de-platformed.

CrazyEyeJoe  ·  1204 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Maybe the article was underemphasizing the fact that the tags are user generated, but it wasn't saying the opposite either. I would've thought (perhaps wrongly) that this should be obvious to anyone reading this in 2020.

To me it's very clear that PornHub aren't even close to be doing all they could to stop this - their effort seems half hearted at best. Don't forget they are becoming unimaginably rich off of the website; they could do A LOT more if they weren't such greedy pricks.

In my book, that makes them complicit.