This post deals with sexual abuse and might be triggering for some readers.
This week, Pornhub removed the majority of the content from their platform. In an unprecedented move, the porn website announced they were deleting all videos on their site that weren’t uploaded by official content partners or members. Since the launch of Pornhub in 2007, anyone has been able to upload a video. Likewise, any viewer has been able to download a video. The process of moderation was minimal, if any.
According to Motherboard, the site previously hosted around 13.5 million videos. After their purge this week, they now host about 4.7 million.
It came one week after The New York Times published an investigation into the sex trafficking and rape content that Pornhub hosts and profits from. The piece uncovered several examples of sex trafficking, and interviewed women who had been abused for the amusement and satisfaction of millions of strangers on the internet.
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