The parent company MindGeek (Revenue: 460 million USD) formerly known as ManWin has been receiving such criticisms for years now.
This is not a hit-piece against a small streaming start-up. It's a wake-up call to monitor a tech giant.
https://nymag.com/news/features/70985/ 2011
https://www.philosophyforlife.org/blog/porn-corporations-sto... 2012
https://slate.com/technology/2014/10/mindgeek-porn-monopoly-... 2014
etc.
Though I doubt she will succeed now, she is very clear that the end-goal is not to monitor Pornhub, but to criminally charge it's owners. This is because a criminal case against them, similar to Backpage, would essentially make all tube-porn sites legal unviable.
I thought that we had effectively neutered the religious right.
How could you pay attention to American politics in the last 30 years and possibly still think this?
I really quite loathe this line of argument that the source or even the intentions behind a probably factual statement should be taken into account when evaluating the truthfulness of the statement. It's textbook ad hominem, literally argument to the person.
PH has a demonstrable problem with child porn on its service. I don't care if it's the US government, a different government, a religious fundamentalist, a competitor, a lobbying group, or some random anonymous internet user surfacing that problem so long as it's verifiably true.
Intention factors into evaluation of the speaker, not the content. To do otherwise is to discard important, actionable facts because you dislike the speaker. In other words, it discards logic.
100 or so items over three years is a success story compared to any other social network.
You need trust in the messager. If this person has religious objections ignoring that is ignoring reality. The messager is the message
Comparing to other websites is meaningless and insensitive. We are not comparing performance statistics but broken lives.
Telling the judge that your neighbor is more criminal than you won't help you in any court case.
If someone emailed you some material should your emailbox, you or all email be taken away from society? The reality of user generated content being uploaded and breaking a sites tos is all too common.
This is just an easy cop-out to avoid talking about a difficult topic.
Liberty, and freedom are under assault from both the extreme right, and the extreme left. Who it seems end up supporting similar policies for very different reasons
I think you are attacking the person instead of the issue. It doesn't matter what her background is as long as there are legitimate issues. And that was certainly the case with backpage, and seems like it was true for Pornhub as well.
I would say Pornhub either is more serious or learned the lesson from backpage, and is moving very fast in shutting illegal things down. I don't think it currently looks like the outcome right now looks like they will be declared illegal.
Was it well deserved ? Certainly, they could have been doing more lot earlier. However there are lot worse players and the focus has been a lot more on Pornhub rather than industry in general.
Self regulation by Pornhub is good step forward, but a model which enables only change from one player after pressure from the payment providers is not reliable model. There has to be regulatory change to really protect the victims.
https://www.audible.com/pd/The-Butterfly-Effect-with-Jon-Ron...