{"id":10040,"date":"2019-09-06T10:30:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T08:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10040"},"modified":"2019-09-09T14:11:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-09T12:11:33","slug":"size-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/10040\/","title":{"rendered":"Size Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"

I found this<\/a> interesting:<\/p>\n

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The owners of porn streaming site Pornhub are profiting from “revenge porn” and failing to remove videos once reported, BBC News has been told.<\/p>\n

One woman, “Sophie”, said she felt “violated” after a video featuring her was viewed hundreds of thousands of times when it was uploaded online.<\/p>\n

Campaign group #NotYourPorn said such content allowed Pornhub owners MindGeek to make greater advertising revenues.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And not for the reasons you filthy-minded people are thinking. Tsk!<\/p>\n

Back when The Economist<\/em> was written by experienced adults rather than noodle-armed hipsters called Jeremy, they ran a decent article on the perils of being number one in any industry. They pointed to McDonald’s being the poster child for all complaints about junk food, while Burger King was barely mentioned. Coca-Cola would get bad press about everything from brainwashing kids to murders in Latin America, but few such claims were made against Pepsi. Environmental campaigns in the US tend to focus on ExxonMobil rather than Chevron, just as Shell seems to be the main target for European protesters. When politicians and campaigners are on a supermarket bashing spree in the US, it’s always Wal-Mart which gets singled out, never Publix. The article listed several examples and said that on occasion it pays to be number two.<\/p>\n

There are probably at least half a dozen giant porn sites out there, but Pornhub is the biggest and best known, so that’s why it’s been singled out here. I confess I had to do several weeks of selfless research to bring you this information (ahem), but most porn clips are not exclusive to one site. In other words, this particular piece of revenge porn would have been shared across dozens of sites, many of whom would not take the approach of Pornhub:<\/p>\n

Pornhub said it “strongly condemns” revenge porn.<\/p>\n

It added it had “the most progressive anti-revenge-porn policy in the industry”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Revenge porn is pretty disgusting, to be honest. I know a young woman who split from some shithead of a boyfriend and he started posting videos of her all over the internet, and contacting people on her social media accounts. She had to go into hiding while her brother-in-law trawled the internet finding where they were hosted and asking for them to be removed. Of course, it is monumentally stupid for a young woman to allow her boyfriend to video her during sex, but young people do daft things, are easily manipulated, and nowadays everyone walks around with an HD video camera in their pocket.<\/p>\n

So while Pornhub is coming in for some flack here, at least they appear to be doing what they can to avoid hosting revenge porn; I expect lesser-known sites are quite happy to do so. So why am I sticking up for Pornhub here? Well, as I explained before<\/a>, one day we’ll all be on Pornhub as it’ll be the only free speech platform left.<\/p>\n

“I’m on there for the message boards, honestly!”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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