What Pornhub’s New Rules Could Mean for the Rest of the Internet

CYBER

VICE

Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Let’s be real: most people watch it and it’s about as fundamental to Internet culture as Google itself: Porn. And nowadays, that means Pornhub, the massive shadow YouTube for porn that accumulates millions of clicks daily. Recently, Pornhub made headlines when a New York Times expose showed the site hosts thousands of illegal videos, which forced the site to take down all unverified content and vastly change its content rules.The story caused waves and has begged questions surrounding what the future of porn will look like online. Motherboard reporter Sam Cole has been covering this beat for years and is on the show to explain the latest on one of the most popular sites on the Internet.

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0:00.0	Tann, it's got the code it's going to launch.
0:10.7	It's a unit system.
0:13.1	I know this.
0:15.1	It's all the files of the whole park.
0:17.3	It tells her everything.
0:19.1	Sir, he's uploading the virus.
0:21.6	The Eagle One, the package is being delivered.
0:24.6	Let's be real.
0:25.6	Most people watch it, and it's about as fundamental to Internet culture as Google itself.
0:31.6	Porn.
0:32.6	And nowadays, that means Pornhub, the massive shadow YouTube for porn that accumulates millions of clicks daily.
0:39.3	Pornhub.
0:40.3	Here for you.
0:45.3	Recently, Pornhub made headlines when a New York Times Exposé showed the site hosts thousands of illegal videos,
0:52.3	which forced the site to take down all unverified content
0:55.2	and vastly change its content rules. The story caused waves and has begged questions
1:00.3	surrounding what the future of porn will look like online. Motherboard reporter Sam Cole
1:04.8	has been covering this beat for years, and she's on the show to explain the latest on one
1:10.0	of the most popular sites on the internet.
1:13.1	I'm Ben Maku, and this is Cyber.
1:20.2	So Sam, in the late stages of December 2020, you came through with several pornography-related scoops about Pornhub.
1:30.6	Yeah.
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