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Comment by zakki | Hacker News Reader

Why do you think it is a forced position? If they are shitty they’ve got the consequences.

Pornhub had a large blogpost claiming that thye are better at filtering illegal content than facebook, and that the latter has many times greater problems with illegal content.

the post claimed that Pornhub has been targeted because of their industry.

i have never verified the veracity of these claims, but they seem plausible

> Pornhub had a large blogpost claiming that thye are better at filtering illegal content than facebook, and that the latter has many times greater problems with illegal content

Facebook is also orders of magnitude larger and has to deal with content that blurs the line between legal and illegal. It's a significantly more difficult task.

> has to deal with content that blurs the line between legal and illegal.

All of Pornhub's content blurs the line between legal and illegal, depending on the jurisdiction. Every single piece of content they deal with.

Go look at some amateur porn featuring a supposed 18 year old. Is she actually 18, or could she be 17 thus making it very illegal child porn?

That's a pretty freaking blurry line.

They removed every single video they don't have a consent form for. You have to upload a consent form for every person in your video. Signing up to Pornhub as a model completely verifies your age.

From what I can tell they actually do more than anyone can expect.

I might not understand your question. I'm not saying the payment processors were wrong to blacklist them. PH was being genuinely scummy.

Its a forced position because PH very much wanted to continue to accept credit cards, which I suspect was where 99% of their income was from. However, the payment processors blacklisted them so they can't.

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