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goobster  ·  1226 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: NYT | The Children of Pornhub

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.