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Re:Pornhub Is Now Blocked in Almost All of the U.S. South by Nifty3929 on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @02:26PM (#42568525)
I didn't say that they remove every single piece of problem content, or that they remove every single thing a user flags. But I do believe that they go out of their way to do so. They make way too much money to do otherwise.

Also, they may (I hope) be a better company now than in the past, as your example seems to show (you indicate that they started requiring verification for uploaded videos). Maybe they grew up, or maybe they just realized that their revenue (or entire business) would be compromised unless they took serious, ongoing action.

In any case - Aylo/PH must certainly be better than many of the alternatives that are based in very permissive jurisdictions and just don't care. Those are the sites people in these Southern states are going to end up on now.

I'm sorry that in your case they failed though.

Re:Pornhub Is Now Blocked in Almost All of the U.S. South by sadboi31 on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @02:29PM (#42568547)
Yeah, no. They absolutely did not do everything in their capacity. The complete opposite is my anecdotal unsourced take.

I worked w/ a woman who used 1000s of sockpuppets of soldiers near military bases to try to wax out information about the aggression associated with their suggestion algorithms.

Pornhub is worse than YT when it comes to encouraging radicalism. She didn't even get to publish and she would receive dildos, fleshlights, and other horrific things. She left the country.

Re:Pornhub Is Now Blocked in Almost All of the U.S. South by polotics on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @03:45PM (#42569144)
Sorry I fully fail to understand what you wrote. Can you try to clarify?
Re:Pornhub Is Now Blocked in Almost All of the U.S. South by thorum on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @02:39PM (#42568625)
This isn’t a counterargument. Yes, mainstream US sites are not saints and have many serious issues. Also yes, they are least subject to US jurisdiction and can be held to some account. If these restrictions drive users to websites that are far, far worse then they will be doing more harm than good.
Re:Pornhub Is Now Blocked in Almost All of the U.S. South by sadboi31 on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @02:45PM (#42568683)
If i were interested in argument I'd cite dozens of papers from https://digitalcommons.uri.edu/dignity/

But whenever i've done so from alt accounts I get brigaded. I have literally paid people to edit comments to improve my tone and it makes no difference.

I'm just sharing a small, honest, account of lived experience. I come here for discussion. Not debate. certainly not argument. If i present myself incorrectly I try to act reflexively and openly.

Some people want to discount that and make everything fact based but sometimes sharing facts on the wrong forum just further reinforces injustice.

I do 20+ pushups, crunches, or burpees in between posts across the web. lol

Re:Pornhub Is Now Blocked in Almost All of the U.S. South by Bancakes on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @03:38PM (#42569104)
Not OP.

You seem to be having some communication misalignments. What ticked me off is the combativeness you displayed. Insisting hard on your side with words like “blatantly” and “Yeah, no”. Also doing burpees and pushups sounds interesting - are you overstimulated? Is that a form of stimming? Are you in the spectrum?

Re:Pornhub Is Now Blocked in Almost All of the U.S. South by thorum on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @06:36PM (#42570217)
Fair enough.
Re:Pornhub Is Now Blocked in Almost All of the U.S. South by PaulHoule on Friday January 10, 2025 @03:32PM (#42659836)
Whenever I've hired a copy editor to help me deal with the line noise in my writing (sometimes a keyboard feels like a Ouija board to me) I've found they inject more errors (and more serious errors) than I do myself.
Re:Pornhub Is Now Blocked in Almost All of the U.S. South by amyames on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @09:06PM (#42570975)
And how exactly did she come to control thousands of military sock puppet accounts?