One woman's struggle to remove all traces of videotaped sexual assault

Re:One woman's struggle to remove all traces of videotaped s... by scarmig on Monday April 05, 2021 @06:51PM (#26705676)

People appearing in professional porn today are almost by definition those who are most comfortable getting identification and age checks; the ability to maintain anonymity is a key concern for most amateurs. Adding the same verification process to amateur porn is more or less making all porn professional porn, not mildly tweaking the nature of amateur porn. Amateurs would be faced with a choice of 1) effectively going pro, 2) fleeing to a different platform, or 3) exiting porn production altogether. I'm fairly confident that 2) would be the largest proportion of people, closely followed by 3), with 1) a distant third.

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Re:One woman's struggle to remove all traces of videotaped s... by lostcolony on Monday April 05, 2021 @07:07PM (#26705819)

There already are professionally produced things with amateurs seeking to maintain anonymity. And yet, documents are signed, checks are written. The paperwork is just kept offline.

Yes, it may make it harder for an amateur seeking to upload something they filmed themselves, and who are not looking to build a brand or collect a payment for it. Not sure how many of those there are. But as soon as you're looking to do one of those things, there are existing allegories you can look to to figure out how it might be enabled.

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Re:One woman's struggle to remove all traces of videotaped s... by scarmig on Monday April 05, 2021 @07:45PM (#26706160)

I'm not arguing that it's impossible to verify people: it's clearly not. The point is that it will end up being a painful and risky enough process that amateurs will respond by switching to other platforms hosted overseas, outside the reach of law enforcement. This will provide a space where the exact same problem as exists now--commingling of legitimate amateur porn and nonconsensual videos--reproduces itself, except with no tools available to expunge the videos that need to be expunged.

Every proactive approach has this downside. That's why we should focus more on making it easy for victims to report a video and have it and variations of it removed from all sites nearly immediately, as well as making sure laws are on the books making it easy to prosecute offenders.

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Re:One woman's struggle to remove all traces of videotaped s... by pm90 on Monday April 05, 2021 @11:29PM (#26707685)

What you’re arguing for can be classified under the “slippery slope fallacy”.

We have repeatedly seen that, while deplatforming does drive content creators to move to other platforms, these platforms will not have the same reach as the mainstream ones. I.e. it’s not a perfect remedy but it’s quite effective.

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