Re:Visa ‘Intended to Help’ Pornhub Monetize Child Porn, Judg...
by AndrewDucker on Monday August 01, 2022 @04:02AM
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They certainly had monetised videos which they hadn't invested nearly enough effort into checking weren't of minors:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opinion/sunday/pornhub-ra...
Re:Visa ‘Intended to Help’ Pornhub Monetize Child Porn, Judg...
by sofixa on Monday August 01, 2022 @05:32AM
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"not doing enough to combat" and actively deciding to monetise child porn aren't really the same thing.
Re:Visa ‘Intended to Help’ Pornhub Monetize Child Porn, Judg...
by AndrewDucker on Monday August 01, 2022 @05:48AM
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"We're going to allow people to upload porn, and we're not going to check whether the people in videos titled 'thirteen' are adults." is actively deciding to monetise child porn.
Re:Visa ‘Intended to Help’ Pornhub Monetize Child Porn, Judg...
by ETH_start on Monday August 01, 2022 @11:16AM
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We have no idea what they knew (did it even occur to them that CP would be blatantly labelled as such?), nor what they intended.
Re:Visa ‘Intended to Help’ Pornhub Monetize Child Porn, Judg...
by yucky on Monday August 01, 2022 @07:32AM
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As the other comment pointed out the obvious, that Mindgeek allowed user generated content, specifically to monetize it, and didn't have proper safeguards in place to check it, then yes of course they facilitated it.
>as long as all participants are consenting human adults, who cares and why?
This brings up an interesting question - is porn a net positive or net negative for society?
Isn't that on extremely flakey ground? Mindgeek is a legitimate business, they probably didn't "decide to monetize child porn" - they're based in Canada and that would mean jail time for a bunch of people from the company.
It's pretty sad that the whole legitimateporn industry, worldwide, is ruled based on what two US-based payment companies decide, and that is defined based on what they fear they might be sued for. It shouldn't be a free for all with child porn and bestiality and etc. but as long as all participants are consenting human adults, who cares and why?