Original title: The world's largest pornographic website will cool?
This article is transferred from [Global Times New Media];
Previously, the New York Times and other foreign media reported that the world's largest pornographic website "Pornhub" has been uploading illegal or seriously immoral video content. Under the condemnation of many media reports, the public's opposition to Pornhub reached an unprecedented climax.
Source: Australian News Network
According to the data, in 2007, Pornhub website was founded in Canada. It once gained huge traffic by providing users with free pornographic videos to watch and upload pornographic videos, and even once ranked the top of the global website traffic rankings.
For a long time, due to the sensitivity of the content itself and the loopholes in the website's operation mode, many users will upload pornographic videos obtained through sneak photography and theft to the platform to earn profits, or use the platform's loose supervision to promote racism and other ideas. Therefore, many countries, including China, have made restrictions on browsing the website.
The racist content suspected of discriminating against Asians on Pornhub, source: Twitter
At the beginning of this year, the BBC reported that a video of a woman who found herself being raped at the age of 14 appeared on Pornhub. The woman spent a lot of time trying to remove this video. This news caused people around the world to condemn the poor supervision of Pornhub.
Source: BBC News
Just last week, the New York Times once again criticized Pornhub's videos that still contain a lot of rape, sneak shots, racism, abuse and other content. What is more alarming is that the author of this article has found thousands of pornographic videos of minors only through a few simple keywords. Shortly after the article was published, MasterCard and Visa, the payment channel service providers, announced that they would suspend their services for Pornhub.
The author of the New York Times commentary said in the title, "Pornhub has made changes, but this is far from enough".
Source: New York Times
However, many media and readers who forwarded this article also believe that the moral and legal issues involved in Pornhub may be "structural and difficult to change", and the only way to cure it is to completely close it.
Image taken from petition website
Recently, Pornhub issued a statement saying that the website will set up a professional review team to crack down on illegal content. From 2021, only users who have completed authentication can upload videos on the website, so as to be responsible for illegal content. As for video content, Pornhub announced that the presenters in the video must be cooperative performers who have been certified and reported on the website to ensure that private videos will not be illegally uploaded to the website.
However, according to previous reports, the above problems of Pornhub have a long history. Although the team of Pornhub has announced several times to make rectification, the relevant problems have been increasing. Therefore, the appeal for the complete closure of Pornhub is much higher than before. Data shows that 2.16 million netizens have participated in the petition of "closing Pornhub".
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