Mastercard to investigate Pornhub
Mastercard is to investigate Pornhub following the recent New York Times piece alleging that depictions of illegal sexual acts are posted to the site.
My apologies if you run into a paywall with the NYT story. Somehow I was able to read it first time without hitting one, and assumed it was open.
dmdiem 01:35 on 2020-12-07 Permalink
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=the%20Four%20Horsemen%20of%20the%20Infocalypse
JaneyB 11:11 on 2020-12-07 Permalink
@dmdiem – whose privacy? The article is about the protection of the victims’ privacy and physical safety but your focus seems to be on the viewer’s free speech. Strange ranking.
Ephraim 11:15 on 2020-12-07 Permalink
And do you even know what someone has to do to get a video of revenge porn removed from a website? They have to actually send full nudes to the company for identification. Wasn’t bad enough so ex sends in the stuff for everyone to see… you have to humiliate yourself to total strangers to get it down.
dmdiem 11:37 on 2020-12-07 Permalink
The definition of the four horsemen has evolved over the years. I should have found a better link. Now it basically means that whenever someone calls on one of the horsemen, theres usually a hidden agenda. Probably about power or money. Like they claimed the patriot act was to fight terrorism. There was a hell of a lot more going on there than that.
So why the sudden push against pornhub now? I’m guessing its something stupid like they have a video service coming out that will compete directly with youtube. I don’t know. Im just saying that when the horsemen are called, theres usually something else going on.
Matthew H 14:41 on 2020-12-07 Permalink
I’m not sure a term added to Urban Dictionary in 2012 (where it’s been upvoted by all of 4 people) is at all helpful in understanding the internet in 2020.