Pornhub technology, in the spotlight for videos of rape and child abuse
The adult entertainment and pornography platform
Pornhub
eliminated more than half of all its contents - some 10 million videos - in an operation that aims to prevent illegal videos from being disseminated by demanding
a verification from all users who publish on
Monday
the web
.
In just 24 hours the number of videos hosted on the portal, a leader in pornographic content, went from more than 13 million to
just close to 3 million
after applying a series of measures proposed by an article in
The New York Times
that promoted Mastercard and Visa to block payments with their cards in the
Pornhub
domain
.
In an opinion piece, journalist
Nicholas Kristof
echoed several cases of sexual exploitation, abuse and rape on this platform, which attracts 3.5 billion visits per month.
"The page is infested with rape videos. It monetizes rapes of children,
revenge porn
, videos recorded without consent in women's showers, racist and misogynistic content and scenes of women being suffocated with plastic bags," the journalist said in said article, which seems to have stirred the conscience of both financial services.
As a solution,
Pornhub will
only allow verified users, whose identity and age is legally accredited, to upload content to the platform.
Also, it appears that
your employees will review each of the videos
before they are available.
"This means that every piece of content hosted on
Pornhub
comes from verified providers, a requirement that platforms such as
,
,
TikTok
, YouTube,
Snapchat
and
have not yet established," the company said on its blog.
The rest of the videos that did not meet that condition -the vast majority- are no longer accessible and are marked with the label
"pending verification and review"
, something that will be done throughout 2021.
Until now, as in most social networks, any user (anonymous or identified) could upload all kinds of content to the platform.
A constant problem that gives rise to cyberbullying and threats, but in the case of
Pornhub it
was even more sensitive because it was pornographic content, sometimes uploaded without the authorization of its protagonists or with minors participating.
For now, other competing platforms like
Redtube
,
Youporn
or
XTube
have not announced similar measures.
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