In a statement this week, they explained: So in addition to stopping new uploads, Pornhub went for the nuclear option and “suspended” all videos from unverified sources. Visa banned all of Pornhub’s sister sites on the MindGeek network, including Redtube, Youporn, Xtube, and Brazzers. MasterCard and Visa announced they would no longer process payments to the site. Less than a week later Pornhub announced a change in policy in which they would no longer allow unverified users from uploading videos, but it was too late to stop the tide of bad press. Well, it all started on December 4 when The New York Times published an op-ed about child sexual abuse victims who saw videos of themselves uploaded onto the site. Video: Leaked Audio Of Tom Cruise GOING OFF On Crew Members For Breaking COVID Protocols That put the number of videos on the site from around 13.5 million to just 2.9 million as of this writing. No unverified videos remain, and no unverified uploaders can put anything else on the site.
Only videos from official content partners remain. Pornhub, one of the largest adult sites in the world, just deleted a whopping 10.6 MILLION videos! That’s over 78.5% of its content!Įverything that wasn’t verified content - you know, the little blue checkmark, just like on Twitter - got the axe. “That is still 118 too many, which is why we are committed to taking every necessary action,” the company said.If you took a casual look for your favorite Internet porn this week, you may have noticed a much, MUCH smaller selection. During that same period, the independent, third-party Internet Watch Foundation reported 118 incidents on Pornhub. In the last three years, Facebook self-reported 84m instances of child sexual abuse material. The groups spearheading the effort to police Pornhub include the anti-pornography groups the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (formerly known as Morality in Media) and Exodus Cry/ TraffickingHub.
In its statement, Pornhub said it is “being targeted not because of our policies and how we compare to our peers, but because we are an adult content platform”. While the company acknowledged the severity of the accusations, it noted the campaign to crackdown on Pornhub comes from groups that have long campaigned against sex content of all kinds. This makes them eligible to monetize their videos.
To become verified, users are required to submit a photo of themselves holding a piece of paper with their username, according to Pornhub’s site. Since Pornhub’s launch in 2007, any user could upload content to the site. “This news is crushing for the hundreds of thousands of models who rely on our platform for their livelihoods,” Pornhub said of the initial moves from Mastercard. Pornhub’s removal of millions of videos may pose a significant threat to sex workers, already struggling during the pandemic, who use the platform’s sales as a source of income. The purge by Monday morning brought the total number of videos on the site down from 13m to just 4m, a report from Motherboard found. “At Pornhub, the safety of our community is our top priority.” “This means every piece of Pornhub content is from verified uploaders, a requirement that platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat and Twitter have yet to institute,” the company said in a blog posted announcing the changes.