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Pornhub’s Billion Dollar Problem [XIII]

Or… Why perhaps ‘social media’ is not a viable business model

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Profiting Off People

Visa was named in a lawsuit filed in California federal court accusing Pornhub’s parent company, MindGeek, of profiting off of child pornography.

Pornhub

• has billions of views every year on its platform, from user-generated content
• claims “that it does everything possible to ensure that child pornography is not distributed through its platform”
• moderates content and allows users to flag inappropriate content (Let’s be honest — if you are into child pornography — you are not going to do this)
• will say ”the burden to check every single uploaded video would be financially unviable”

Paying people to moderate this sort of content is so expensive — financially, emotionally, and mentally (just imagine if moderators’ mental health was actually looked after).

Perhaps if you run a platform that is too expensive to ensure that it operates within the bounds of legality — there is no business model there.

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