According to the New York Times, the world's largest pornographic website has aroused public anger because of its long-standing illegal video content such as rape of women and sexual assault on children. Recently, more than 2 million netizens have petitioned to close the website. Under the fierce criticism of many media and the criticism of the public, the website has deleted tens of millions of videos and decided to rectify.
This website is called Pornhub. It was founded in Canada in 2007. There is no threshold for users to enter this website, and the way of use is also very casual. On the website, users can upload their own content to the website without restrictions, and users who browse videos can also watch and download each video at will. The website has obtained huge traffic and attracted a large number of Internet users through this doorless, "grounded" convenience. It is reported that the number of visitors to this website even exceeded Amazon, ranking 10th in the world.
However, in the 13 years from its inception to the present, the website's operating model has a huge loophole. First of all, the website has only 80 video auditors distributed around the world, and the website uploads a huge amount of videos every day. According to statistics, more than 1.3 million hours of videos are uploaded to the website every year, and the auditors watch 100 hours of videos every week, There are few auditors, but there are many videos to be audited. Therefore, when auditors audit a video, they view the whole video by fast forwarding and then pass it. In addition, because the website has no restrictions, many users will upload their own or secretly taken pornographic videos to gain income. Over time, more and more content sensitive videos have appeared on the website.
At the beginning of this year, the American media once reported a news, which pushed the website to the forefront of public opinion. The news content is that a 14-year-old girl who was gang raped accidentally found a video of her gang raped on this website, which was watched by more than millions of people. The girl's classmates also saw her video. Then in the comment area below the video, someone revealed the girl's identity information. During that time, the girl was harassed by many strangers, She was in agony and asked the website to remove her video, but after a year of her appeal, the website did not respond. The girl had to pretend to be a lawyer and negotiate with the website leader before her video was deleted. Once the news was sent out, it immediately aroused public anger and accused the website of poor supervision. Last week, a reporter of the New York Times once again criticized the website for a large number of videos of abuse, sexual assault, gang rape and other content. The reporter said that he searched for thousands of pornographic videos of minors through only a few keywords.
Recently, the website issued a statement saying that it would rectify the website and set up a special review team to crack down on illegal videos on the website. From next year, users need to pass the identity authentication of the website to upload videos on the website in order to pursue illegal acts. Users who do not pass the identity authentication do not have the right to upload videos. The presenter in the video must be a co performer who has been certified by the website and reported to ensure that the videos that have been secretly shot and forced to be shot will not be illegally uploaded to the website.
Author: Luo Wei
