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Re:Interview with a Pornhub web developer (2019) by chr1 on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @08:01PM (#23992897)
If we temporarily put aside the question of me being a monster, is there any evidence that fighting with the images helps in any way to prevent the actual crime? People playing violent video games do not go to the street killing people as a result of that, if anything they become less likely to get involved in actual crime. Do you expect someone accidentally seeing such a video to be "converted" by it and to attempt to do such things himself, or do you see some other harm done by not removing these videos?

FYI i do not support watching porn, using drugs, drinking alcohol, and all the other things that used to be frowned upon by different religions, but trying to prevent such thought-crimes and self-harm crimes by law instead of persuasion have always caused more harm than good.

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Re:Interview with a Pornhub web developer (2019) by uxcolumbo on Thursday July 30, 2020 @01:12PM (#24000602)
I think you missed the point. This has nothing to do with thought police or trying to ban porn itself.

It's not about the viewer becoming an abuser him/herself.

It's about creating porn with people who are being abused, exploited and trafficked.

It doesn't necessarily have to be a violent porn video.

This is about the owners of those porn platforms having to take this issue more seriously - which they didn't according the investigations, i.e. profit is more important than investing more money in their platform to detect and take down those videos with trafficked and exploited people.

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Re:Interview with a Pornhub web developer (2019) by chr1 on Saturday August 01, 2020 @12:59PM (#24021992)
I understand that, what i don't understand is why do people consider deleting a number so important. No matter how was it obtained, it's just a number and deleting it doesn't benefit anyone. (Arguably leaving it online may even help, as it will make new videos of the same kind less profitable.)

Hopefully in a few years, when neural nets will be able to generate such videos with anyone, people will stop obsessing over deleting numbers.

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