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Does 'rape culture' accurately describe (many) societies?

Poem said:
Arden Young and Eric Cochran of Sound Investigation speak to Tim Pool about Pronhub.

From Young's X account (re Solomon Friedman):
The owner of PornHub is a defence attorney who defended child sexual predators. His firm, Ethical Capital Partners, acquired Pornhub's parent company earlier this year (ie 2023), and claims to be the leader of compliance in the adult industry.

Tim Pool asks the same question I have - why aren't they in prison? "The worst that happened was that they had to stop doing the thing."

Young and Cochran speak about how they managed to get to speak to Pornhub employees - and the camera they used.
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Why do you keep citing sources which could only be very charitably described as neo-nazi?
 
Gulliver Foyle said:
Why do you keep citing sources which could only be very charitably described as neo-nazi?
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I have cited from many sources that wouldn't be described in that way. Pool let's Sound Investigations (SI) speak freely. 26 attorneys general have acted on their (SI's) work.

xbiz: "xHamster Effectively Blocked in Germany After Government Order"

It's possible that Pornhub is still available in Germany but there were certainly measures taken to block it.

According to SI:

"In 2023, Louisiana, Utah, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Virginia passed laws with overwhelming bipartisan support that require IDs to access pornography sites to prevent these sites from illegally serving their products to children. By Pornhub’s own admission, Pornhub’s traffic dropped 80% in Louisiana after the new law forced Pornhub to require ID verification for its users. After Louisiana, Pornhub began lawfare against states that enacted similar laws and is protesting by blocking access to its sites altogether in many states.

North Carolina and Montana passed ID laws that go into effect January 1, 2024.

Texas also passed an ID law this year. While a judge initially issued an injunction against the law’s enforcement, Attorney General Paxton appealed and won a stay on the injunction while the appeal continues through the courts.

Legislators in Indiana and Tennessee have very recently introduced ID requirement bills that may be voted on next year."
 
Checkmite said:
Unfortunately it's a goal that sites like Pornhub obliviously play into with their obstinate resistance to doing anything whatsoever to address those problems.

If you ask me, Pornhub could address those issues quite successfully with active, diligent moderation. But that would require hiring moderators though which would cost money; even though Pornhub with diligent moderation would still be wildly profitable, it wouldn't be as wildly profitable, so in today's hyper-focused-on-profits business atmosphere that's a no-go.
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That's a problem with all areas of the internet. Turns out that an industry run by libertarians is not good in terms of not doing harm.
 
Poem said:
I have cited from many sources that wouldn't be described in that way. Pool let's Sound Investigations (SI) speak freely. 26 attorneys general have acted on their (SI's) work.

xbiz: "xHamster Effectively Blocked in Germany After Government Order"

It's possible that Pornhub is still available in Germany but there were certainly measures taken to block it.

According to SI:

"In 2023, Louisiana, Utah, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Virginia passed laws with overwhelming bipartisan support that require IDs to access pornography sites to prevent these sites from illegally serving their products to children. By Pornhub’s own admission, Pornhub’s traffic dropped 80% in Louisiana after the new law forced Pornhub to require ID verification for its users. After Louisiana, Pornhub began lawfare against states that enacted similar laws and is protesting by blocking access to its sites altogether in many states.

North Carolina and Montana passed ID laws that go into effect January 1, 2024.

Texas also passed an ID law this year. While a judge initially issued an injunction against the law’s enforcement, Attorney General Paxton appealed and won a stay on the injunction while the appeal continues through the courts.

Legislators in Indiana and Tennessee have very recently introduced ID requirement bills that may be voted on next year."
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Tim Pool is a bona fide far right voice, so is unherd and Arden Young (a member of project veritas, motto "we never tell the truth). So, again I ask you, why are you so insistent of providing "sources" from the far right?

If you are trying to amplify the far-right at least be big enough to be open about yourgoal. If you are ignorant of the deeply harmful politics of so many of your sources, educate yourself.
 
Gulliver Foyle said:
Tim Pool is a bona fide far right voice, so is unherd and Arden Young (a member of project veritas, motto "we never tell the truth).
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Source?

Not that i am an apologist for PV but google reveals: "Be Brave And Do Something".
So, again I ask you, why are you so insistent of providing "sources" from the far right?
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The Guardian, The Telgraph, the Police, Children's charities, the UK Children's Commissioner.......
If you are trying to amplify the far-right at least be big enough to be open about yourgoal. If you are ignorant of the deeply harmful politics of so many of your sources, educate yourself.
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Harmful? Really? Nicholoas Kristof exposed Pornhub in 2020 so they have form here.

And the 26 attorneys general?

Are the undercover video's from SI a lie? I haven't seen any evidence here or elsewhere suggesting so.
 
unfortunately, project veritas has a pretty long history of doctoring and faking these kind of uncover investigations. idk if this one is amongst them, but you can only do that kind of thing once and they already used their one.
 
dirtywick said:
unfortunately, project veritas has a pretty long history of doctoring and faking these kind of uncover investigations. idk if this one is amongst them, but you can only do that kind of thing once and they already used their one.
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Yet nothing here that suggests Sound Investigation's work is doctored. If it is then they fooled 26 attorneys general.
 
Poem said:
Following Nicholas Kristof's 2020 exposé, Pornhub was forced to remove 80% of it's content.
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And yet it remains profitable, somewhat validating my suspicion that removing the questionable content wouldn't kill the business.

For what it's worth, Pornhub's removing 80% of its content didn't derive from 80% of the content having been found to be problem content, it derived from Pornhub deciding to blanket-remove all user-uploaded content and prohibit such uploads from then on.
 
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In the history of human art, a lot of it is some sex. Apparently some like to see it.

It will always be; it's generally the first form of any new media. So no more Pornhub in Texas. No way around that.
 
Checkmite said:
And yet it remains profitable, somewhat validating my suspicion that removing the questionable content wouldn't kill the business.

For what it's worth, Pornhub's removing 80% of its content didn't derive from 80% of the content having been found to be problem content, it derived from Pornhub deciding to blanket-remove all user-uploaded content and prohibit such uploads from then on.
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Ph removed about 11 million of it's 13.8 million videos in 2020. It was content that they could not verify. They may have prohibited such user generated content following the purge but that isn't the case now. It may be that it needs quantity to realize a decent profit...or else why take the risk?
 
Poem said:
They may have prohibited such user generated content following the purge but that isn't the case now.
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It is the case now. It still appears to be the case that Pornhub only allows uploads from verified partners.
 
PitPat said:
In the history of human art, a lot of it is some sex. Apparently some like to see it.

It will always be; it's generally the first form of any new media. So no more Pornhub in Texas. No way around that.
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Texans can use VPNs, or any of the hundreds of porn sites out there.

This is all part of a larger effort to scrub the internet of porn entirely. The National Center on Sexual exploitation? They're just a rebrand of Morality in Media and they even maintain a naughty list. If these guys get their way, we're going to be back to being titillated by getting a glimpse of her ankle.
 
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