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• @ourielohayon Ouriel Ohayon on x

  Hot stuff. Joke aside. For anyone asking “but what can you do with crypto that no other money can and that people want? ” Well now here is your answer. https://twitter.com/...

• @sandeepembar Sandeep R on x

  Porn industry adoption of VHS killed Betamax, and more importantly porn was first to adopt online credit card processing in the early 90s internet before e-commerce. This could be the tipping point for #Bitcoin https://twitter.com/...

• @justinsuntron Justin Sun on x

  Pornhub accepts #TRON (TRX) and Tether ( $USDT) on #TRON.https://decrypt.co/...

• @quinnypig Corey Quinn on x

  Well I must admit that jerking off has certainly become several steps more complicated since I was a teenager. https://twitter.com/...

• @caseynewton Casey Newton on x

  If you wonder what the internet would be like without Section 230, Pornhub's response to losing its payment processors offers a pretty good preview. “Verified” content only; everything else disappears https://www.theverge.com/...

• @robyncaplan Robyn Caplan on x

  What's happening on PornHub is happening all over social media; platforms are using “verification” as a way to distinguish between sources to decrease moderation needs (or allocate resources). This acts kind of like an internal badge and can factor into things like monetization.

• @redlianak Liana on x

  Thanks to a scandal, Pornhub suddenly became the least revenge-porny social media service on the internet. The statistics on kiddie porn on Facebook here are pretty startling though. 2020! https://www.cbc.ca/...

• @moonalice Roger McNamee on x

  @andymstone @cagoldberglaw @VisaNews @Mastercard . @andymstone You say this as though you expect the world to believe 99% is good enough. At 99% there are still millions of harmful posts getting through, each with the potential to ruin someone's life. That is not acceptable. @vis…

• @robyncaplan Robyn Caplan on x

  YouTube just used this system, for instance, when figuring out how to address videos on Covid (called it self-certification). Inevitably this ends up benefiting more some media and bigger creators, as well as “official sources” (platforms seem to see direct info as less biased)

• @themaxburns Max Burns on x

  Kind of incredible that @Pornhub takes more direct accountability for the content on its platform than Facebook does https://twitter.com/...

• @cagoldberglaw Carrie A. Goldberg on x

  Online Child sexual abuse material by numbers: 118: instances of csam found on pornhub 2017-2019 84,000,000: instances of csam found on FAcebook 2017-2019 You're dumping which platform, @Visa @Mastercard ?!?!!! https://twitter.com/...

• @sqlallfather Matthew Roche on x

  Did you have PornHub seizing the moral high ground over Facebook and Twitter on your 2020 bingo card? This is a reminder that social media platforms COULD solve their systemic problems, but they CHOOSE not to because spreading hatred and undermining democracy is too profitable. h…

• @robyncaplan Robyn Caplan on x

  Er or raw data of some sort? I dunno. Anyhoo, this kind of mediation between users through verification and certification is a big move! We are seeing more of it from almost every platform (including ones you might not expect like AirBnb and Tinder).

• @cagoldberglaw Carrie A. Goldberg on x

  No. Pornhub removing unverified content is not what the internet would be like w/o 230 b/c it happened WITH 230 fully intact. But why is it bad for platforms to have actual standards for types of user content (i.e. porn) w/ high frequency of malicious publication & injury? https:…

• @beirutspring Mustapha Hamoui on x

  Huh... It now hit me that if YouTube had done the same, all the misinformation, fake news, extremist content and other garbage would have been gone in a second... https://twitter.com/...

• @caseynewton Casey Newton on x

  @pt Well, we don't know how Twitter would react to a world without 230. Maybe ID verification would have nothing to do with it. Seems more likely that those whose IDs had been verified would be given broader speech permissions than those who had not

• @oliviasolon Olivia Solon on x

  The verified porn performers on the platform have been asking Pornhub to crack down on unverified content for years — they lose money from unverified users posting pirated copies of their scenes & none of them want nonconsensual material next to theirs.

• @exoduscry @exoduscry on x

  TODAY'S BREAKING NEWS: “Pornhub is removing all videos uploaded to its site by unverified users, millions of videos in total, as part of a crackdown on user-uploaded content after two major payment processors (actually 3) suspended service.” #Traffckinghub https://www.theverge.co…

• @norakali Nora Ali on x

  This happened faster than expected - Pornhub removing all vids by unverified users; for a platform that relies on user-generated content, this is big https://www.theverge.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @samleecole Samantha Cole on x

  everything except for what was uploaded by content partners or members of the Model Program is suspended pending review and user verification—instead of those videos, you'll see this https://www.vice.com/... https://twitter.com/...

• @hunterwalk @hunterwalk on x

  And @NickKristof did more to actually help minors than all the QAnoners combined https://twitter.com/...

• @timcast Tim Pool on x

  It makes sense banning unverified Porn for a lot of reasons But I imagine it's only a matter of time until this hits every aspect of social media Its the best way to censor speech without calling it censorship https://www.vice.com/...

• @emanuelmaiberg @emanuelmaiberg on x

  UPDATE: number of videos on pornhub all over the place. started at 13 mil, went down to 5, up to 7, now at 4.8. I assume a lot of this is just funky indexing issues, need to wait for the dust to settle to understand impact: https://www.vice.com/...

• @jason_koebler Jason Koebler on x

  To be clear pornhub just deleted like 60% of all videos on one of the largest porn sites on the internet by flipping a switch https://www.vice.com/...

• @samthielman @samthielman on x

  man if any of the people who pornhub has cheated ever want to sue their asses this move, in which they demonstrate they knew exactly how to make their operation legal, will be exhibit A https://twitter.com/...

• @samleecole Samantha Cole on x

  this number will probably go up. every video from an unverified user on the homepage I'm looking at now—probably a third of what the site's showing me—is returning that notice https://www.vice.com/...