>As much as I am privacy-minded, the idea that someone could upload an explicit video to Pornhub without verifying that they were 18 is mind-boggling.

You make it sound like the statement requires no evidence. In reality it makes no difference if the uploader is 18 or not, but that the _recording_ is made consensually by 18+.

It is not a net positive for content producers, because viewers of legal but unverified porn (ie the wast majority of the content) will go to other sites.

I suspect xvideos viewership will go up, and they probably won't ally with the credit card agencies.