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thebibliosphere:

challahchic2:

punkwitchanarchist:

repotting:

Pornhub’s entire business model revolves around stealing content made by
sex workers without their consent and profiting off it with no
compensation to the workers who generate the content they steal.

Sex
workers are an incredibly vulnerable and stigmatised class of workers, mostly women,
mostly younger, mostly not rich, with little recourse, socially or legally, against a massive
corporation like Pornhub.

Pornhub relies on this, on how little you care about sex workers, to maintain a business
based on stealing their livelihoods.

Stop applauding a
corporation that literally exists to steal from marginalised workers just
because they have a competent PR department.

Fucking thank you

@thebibliosphere I think you were considering their blogging services?

I wasn’t actually, but I was going to look into them just to see what their TOS were actually like when compared to other sites.

I also went and asked my friends who host their own pages and fan groups on pornhub with a good subscriber following, but since talking to them today about it more in depth, they’ve also confirmed their stuff does get stolen a lot and they spend nearly as much time reporting content theft as they do making it. And it’s nearly impossible to keep up with how much their content gets reposted on pornhub itself. Which is a huge problem. Not to mention pornhub owns a lot of other porn platforms, so it’s not like they can hop to another site to avoid that. (Also worth clarifying, again, pornhub itself isn’t stealing the content directly, they’re just a hosting site. The user base however is stealing it then reposting it. Porhub just profits from the generated traffic. One of my friends who is particularly popular actually has fans who report her stolen content to PH, who then take it down, but it’s not an ideal system.
Also a lot of the gifs on here on the “I’m not a filthy porn blog I just like the
Aesthetic™“ blogs were usually using stolen content from adult
content producers, filtering them into black and white for the lewk, and then getting ko-fi tips for creating “such great art uwu”. Yes I’m salty and bitter over it. Now imagine being one of the people whose actual content it is.)

The pay cut is also substantially more when compared to other payout services…but I have to wonder if that’s because the company has to pay more to process things, considering the likes of PayPal and Stripe adamantly refuse to work with sex workers. (Which was part of the reason patreon briefly went to hell in a handbasket as they moved all their money processing overseas to avoid these rules.)

I know when I’ve looked into alternative processing services, the fee has been more, but I also feel like a site the sheer size of pornhub should be able to absorb that cost by not taking it out on content creators.

In the end all the people I spoke to wish they got paid more and wished there were better ways to keep their content secure, but seen as how porn hub thrives as much from free “amateur” uploads as actual professional film companies, it’s doubtful they will work to fix that without some serious pressure being applied.

Which given how disgustingly awful people treat sex workers, even here on “sex positive” tunglr dot com, I don’t see that happening without some serious changes to society as a whole. Not to mention the law. And as we all know the laws in the US just changed to be even more unfriendly to sex workers, so y’know…not going to hold my breath on that one.

I will however continue to boost the voices of others though. That’s a far better use of one’s breath.