Porn Platform Challenges

How does porn cause legal headaches for US-based platforms?

I seem to recall them explaining that porn is only banned because they might otherwise get in trouble with their payment processors.

Pornhub has banned many videos already. It forbids and deletes any amateur video not posted by the original author (to prevent revenge porn, non-consensual porn, repost of videos since deleted by the author, etc.) and also forbids certain keywords related to non-consensual porn like rape, sleep.Mindgeek (company owning Pornhub and many other porn websites) are by no mean a company respecting sex workers as good as they should but they are putting an effort to stop nasty shit from their websi

Pornhub is actually a good guy in porn. They deleted junk a few years ago, added filters. Now it requires proof and has transparent monetization. Close to million sex workers would loose income, if it has to shutdown. They would go from cam to streets...There are several other websites that behave worse, even Twitter or Reddit allows non-consensual (warez) video links.

They are getting so much revenue from ,so why should they restrict porn.

I’ll take a stab at answering this. Business and moral reasons likely.Porn has a high rate of charge backs. Increased credit processing fees. Expensive to work with processors who allow it.Porn can carry legal implications. Are there any non consensual images? Children in them or viewing them? Revenge porn? AI deep fake porn? Who wants to associate their products and company alongside porn?Different countries and localities have different laws. Are you going to legally complaint? Will

They don't want to be a porn site. The problem they have is that the porn content drives away advertisers and non-porn related contant. So they have to steer away from porn, but wherever they draw the line there are going to be people testing the line, and there's an audience for it. So the compromise they've clearly come up with is they don't allow porn, but if you happen to be sexy wearing practically nothing, that's fine - as long as it's got some pretext of not

What? No. Porn is the lifeblood of many industries.The problem with porn is two-fold:- Some classes of advertisers don't like it (don't want their ads associated with porn). Removing porn from your platform might be necessary depending on your business model and target audience.- Websites that will commonly have minors will usually avoid the risk and outright ban porn. Still, it's not like they wouldn't take it if they could. Steam for example has recently started ap

Thank you Paypal. Porn is a disease on the society exploiting on vulnerable people. Any company concerned with mental health of the society shouldn't let these porn streaming companies use their infrastructure. Also, a private company is not compelled to let anyone use their infrastructure, if anything, it violates that company's first amendment rights.

I think legal porn (e. g. featuring consenting adults) is generally a-okay and shouldn't be illegal or banned... but I also don't need much convincing to believe MindGeek and Pornhub are bad actors. It simply isn't in their financial interest to protect people who need and deserve protecting, and so they didn't/don't. Anti-porn groups couldn't ask for more ideal enemies.Yes, I know that the vast majority of the content they post is perfectly fine and legal.