A petition is underway against the tube site Pornhub for hosting videos of sexual abuse. At first glance, this seems unquestionably reasonable: After all, Pornhub has received repeated criticism for reportedly hosting videos filmed without consent—specifically, undercover camera footage, coercively filmed clips, and videos of rape. As the Guardian reports today, the petition has garnered over 350,000 signatures and centers on “the perceived insufficiency of the company’s safeguarding checks” on user uploads, an issue Jezebel previously raised.
South Carolina’s Limestone College, which it only removed after the involvement of law enforcement. Earlier this year, the BBCPornhub has a major existential problem on its hands.“dedicated team of human reviewers,”
it heavily relies on community flagging as a defense against nonconsensual content. This is inherent to the design of sites like Pornhub which thrive off of quick and easy user uploads. The upshot is that a nonconsensual clip might not be recognized as such until just the right person sees it. In the case of those Limestone College videos, it was a “who apparently recognized the locker room in question and alerted authorities.
and continues to imperil sex workers to this day. This mirrors the contemporary anti-porn movement, which increasingly emphasizes, with questionable evidence, a “public health crisis” over more traditional moral messaging. These insidious, manipulative ploys make it more difficult to reasonably and factually address legitimate issues relating to porn and sex work.
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