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Re:MasterCard to stop processing payments on Pornhub, cites ... by GuB-42 on Thursday December 10, 2020 @04:39PM (#25379088)
From what I've seen, PornHub is one of the worst thing that happened to the porn industry. It is a piracy hub, 90% of it is illegal with regards to copyright, the rest is fueled by predatory business practices. If it was mainstream media, it would have been sued to oblivion, or, like YouTube, forced to adopt aggressive anti-piracy measures.

And, maybe there is a little bit of child porn on PornHub, it is bound to happen since users can upload anything. I could probably upload child porn on YouTube if I wanted to, that would be short lived and it would get me into trouble but I can probably get a few hundred views before it gets caught. But the thing is, I never stumbled upon it. In fact, I pretty much only get illegally uploaded content from legitimate studios or "PornHub originals".

That anti-sex work groups attack PornHub is ironic. It would be like being against the record industry and attacking The Pirate Bay.

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Re:MasterCard to stop processing payments on Pornhub, cites ... by tomwill656 on Thursday December 10, 2020 @04:51PM (#25379225)
They have hundreds of thousands of sex workers uploading and making ad revenue, and selling content, which they now won't be able to. They also announced a few days ago that uploads would only be for people in their model program and partners, so this is a huge blow to those sex workers.
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Re:MasterCard to stop processing payments on Pornhub, cites ... by Wingman4l7 on Thursday December 10, 2020 @04:47PM (#25379172)
It also has a dark history -- it basically managed to dominate by initially causing pornography publishers/producers to go under due to its rampant and unchecked hosting of pirated content, and then, in the ultimate ironic twist, it would turn around and cheaply acquire them: https://slate.com/technology/2014/10/mindgeek-porn-monopoly-...
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