We hope we have demonstrated our dedication to leading by example.” “Solutions must be driven by real facts and real experts. “In today’s world, all social media platforms share the responsibility to combat illegal material.,” Pornhub stated. The Canadian-based website jabbed other social media websites, writing that “every piece of Pornhub content is from verified uploaders, a requirement that platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat and Twitter have yet to institute.”
Going forward, content creators must become verified using Pornhub’s process that involves uploading a picture of themselves with their username. The changes took the number of videos on the website from 13.5 million videos down to a little under 3 million. In a blog post Monday, the website said it had “enacted the most comprehensive safeguards in user-generated platform history,” including barring unverified uploaders from adding new content, eliminating the ability to download most videos and has removed all previously uploaded content that was not created by Pornhub’s verified content partners or members of its adult performer network.
Pornhub has removed a majority of its content – millions of explicit videos – uploaded from unverified users as part of a series of changes following allegations that the site showed videos of child abuse and nonconsensual sexual behavior.
