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Pornhub Content Purge

Discussion in 'General' started by TheOtherSandman, Dec 14, 2020.

  1. Daytripper

    Daytripper Connoisseur.

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    Does anyone know where PornHubs HQ is?
     
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  2. Evilhippy

    Evilhippy The Cum Lord

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    Nope! But they should just install the HQ servers into drones like the pirate bay did.
     
  3. John_Oakman

    John_Oakman Come touch my hentai machine

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    If the owners of the site is smart, they'll already have contingency in place, either by moving towards crypto or utilize older forms of money transfer such as Western Union (memes of being the choice of scammers aside, that's also why the institution is still so widely used)
     
  4. The_Fenestrated

    The_Fenestrated Versed in the lewd.

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    Visa and Mastercard are well known for being puritanical and pulling shit like this.
     
  5. Drak4806

    Drak4806 Well worn.

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    Oh its just going to get worse
    [​IMG]
     
  6. The_Fenestrated

    The_Fenestrated Versed in the lewd.

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    What the actual fuck.
     
  7. Drak4806

    Drak4806 Well worn.

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    If you don't think we're heading for a super controlled an censored internet along with a Chinese style social credit system you haven't been paying attention.
     
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  8. CrossyCross

    CrossyCross LADY OF LOVE

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    I feel like wanting to cry and I haven't felt like that in a while.

    Like I was calm a few minutes ago but now I'm shivering and my mind is going places. Fuck.


    This is...very disheartening.
     
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  9. Daytripper

    Daytripper Connoisseur.

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    Its going to be ok. Take a break from the internet for a while.
     
  10. Stanley_Jeb

    Stanley_Jeb Versed in the lewd.

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    I suppose it's not like you couldn't see this coming: The world's been heading towards cancel culture anyway, China was just going in early on this.
    Mastercard and Visa suck for doing this, but they are just companies, so I can see why they felt the need to not associate themselves with something like that and demand it be changed. In a sense, it's what we chose: If society wouldn't make such an enormous deal of CP, it wouldn't be treated like one.
     
  11. Drak4806

    Drak4806 Well worn.

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  12. The_Fenestrated

    The_Fenestrated Versed in the lewd.

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    ...what.
     
  13. Daytripper

    Daytripper Connoisseur.

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    So after some researching, PH head quarters is in Cyprus.

    I don’t know any one from Cyprus so I can’t really help.

    Any one know the HQ of MasterCard and Google? Also who owns PasteBin.
     
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  14. CrossyCross

    CrossyCross LADY OF LOVE

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  15. Daytripper

    Daytripper Connoisseur.

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    Google and Visa headquarters are in the same state I live in (duh) while MasterCards is in Missouri.
     
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  16. Stanley_Jeb

    Stanley_Jeb Versed in the lewd.

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    If I don't understand this correctly, do correct me, but wasn't all of this started because there were like, a hundred of non-verified videos containing that stuff on pornhub? Hence all of the takedowns and all that? Or did I completely misread that?
     
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  17. Vaermina

    Vaermina Well worn.

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    Pornhub is based in Canada.
     
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  18. Chastity

    Chastity Well worn.

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    https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39187929
    Weird that Visa and Mastercard didn't do anything to Facebook for this! Almost like it's just a way of kneecapping small companies rather than an actual zero tolerance policy on the slightest hint of child porn.
     
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  19. Stanley_Jeb

    Stanley_Jeb Versed in the lewd.

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    Or that. Although, wasn't there also a big petition for pornhub in particular which facebook lacked? Then again, I could be wrong about that too. In which case, still kinda shit that we live in a society where kneecapping small companies is... Well, a thing. Feels like it shouldn't be.
     
  20. Malcolmo

    Malcolmo Insert custom title here

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    There is some potential for future good news on this front. Apparently the American Office of the Comptroller of Currency is considering legislation to effectively force banks (they're free not to but lose any and all help from the government like bailouts if they don't comply) to provide service if the institution meets credit risk regardless of any moral or other compunctions. If you're an American citizen or have been in a contact with a community effected by this you have 18 days from this post to send in a public comment in support of the bill here: https://beta.regulations.gov/commenton/OCC-2020-0042-0001/

    Here's a video discussing it:


    Of course there's no guarantee the banks won't still force their way out of it but hey it's worth trying. And if there's one thing governments tend to really hate it's outside forces trying to muscle in on their territory so who knows.

    Also obviously you should consider sharing it to anyone else who has been effected by banks acting like this.
     
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  21. John_Oakman

    John_Oakman Come touch my hentai machine

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    [LAUGHES IN HAVING NO CREDIT SCORE IN THE FIRST PLACE]

    And people keep on telling me how I'm paranoid in only relying on debit and cash for everything...
     
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  22. seeing_octarine

    seeing_octarine Unverified Colour

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    If you think about it, society's reaction to CP doesn't really make sense. Under what other circumstances can you find evidence of a heinous crime that you weren't involved in, go to turn in that evidence to the authorities, and then get arrested yourself for merely possessing the evidence?
     
  23. Lemonbarb

    Lemonbarb Very sour Grinch

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    I'm going to assume Fake News on that article, until that shit's on more authentic newspapers.
     
  24. Malcolmo

    Malcolmo Insert custom title here

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    You know you can just follow the link in the article to the IMF blog where it's mentioned and see for yourself right?
    There was even a link to the paper they used.
     
  25. Renko

    Renko Look closer ~☆

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    Pornhub, Pastebin, & Mediafire...

    I wonder which ones are going to be next?

    Glad most of my downloads are from torrents and other alternate file sharing sites.



    Ahoy!

    :V
     
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  26. Megaolix

    Megaolix Moderator

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    Don't merely panic, people. Remember when we imagined e-hentai was going down? AKA the greatest stash of doujins ever? People rose up to save it.
     
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  27. Malcolmo

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    This isn't something people can actually intervene in in that manner. The nature of payment processors and their power means that there are very few means by which one can even attempt to intervene. And with "journalists" already pointing at other sites I somewhat doubt that "simply" setting up a new site and mirroring some of the content will be an effective strategy.
     
  28. Keldin

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    Yeah people should prooobably take a deep breath. The pornhub thing is pretty ick-both in that I can't morally disagree with trying to nuke cheese pizza but I sure as hell am not in favor of how it was done, especially considering the other massive sites that inevitably have that shit because filters only do so much ,especially when the quantity of shit to sift through is so massive, and yet they're getting passes. Frankly of the different things the Pornhub one is the most concerning because unless there's serious pushback it sets an obvious precedent for Credit Card companies to dicatate buisnesses.

    Mediafire is just pulling the usual "monetize our free service" shtick those types end up doing, and there's likely enough time that any dedicated communities have enough time to back up the files. Also in general most of the communities that regularly have file uploads and such don't use it to the point of relying on it. It's just generally good practice to use multiple filehosting sites, and while some content will likely be lost it'll just be the usual bits and pieces that any change or disappearance of filehosts have, not massive swathes of content.

    As to Pastebin thaaaaat one's pretty much completely on them. Some cursory googling shows that back in April their search tool that had a one time 50$ fee to use was removed because of “active abuse by third parties for commercial purposes.” This also unfortunately meant that it made it way more difficult for cybersecurity groups to scan the site to preemptively get ahead of new and modified version of different viruses and security exploits, since pastebin's nature made it incredibly convenient for hackers and such to use to share info. Without the search tool to help scrape the site or piggyback off of or whatever sorcery cybersecurity wizards do, it made it way harder and thus more convenient for hackers. Apparently after some serious backlash the decided to maintain the scraping api but their image took a hit.

    That alone probably wouldn't be a huge issue....exceeept that they decided it would be a brilliant idea to add some new features. Such as password protected docs, which tbf a lot of places have and oh also a burn-after-reading option that deletes the file after its been read a single time since yknow it's not as if "burn after reading" isn't explicitly a method to obscure and hide info and almost nobody using it would be doing so if their docs weren't legally dubious at best. Additionally it seems Pastebin's use as a hub for hacking has only been on the rise and half my Google news results from using the search term "Pastebin" are articles about trojans and Worms being deployed courtesy of linking to docs on Pastebin and GitHub to use as a hub that the viruses and such link to to grab payloads after the initial infection of the PC.

    So yeah, I'm guessing that with all this being on the rise and coming to light Pastebin's stance of "lol fuk u we do what we want, if hackers wanna hack go ahead" to "oh fuck oh shit oh jesus our actions have consequences and we need to start damage control a month ago".
     
  29. magic9mushroom

    magic9mushroom BEST END.

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    Hey Putin, feel like making 10%+ of the West sing your praises? Start a government-backed payment processor.

    (This also applies to France and the Scandinavian countries. Also probably a pretty penny in it for whoever gets there first.)
     
  30. BrokenAscendent

    BrokenAscendent Filthy Heretic Moderator

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    Don't start anything please. Rule 8 is still here.