Pornhub & Child Sexual Abuse: Company Revises Policy after Criticism

It’s been less than a week since New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof published a long feature piece about a number of children who were raped or sexually abused and later had videos of that abuse uploaded to Pornhub, a major host of Internet pornography.

Shortly after Kristof’s article appeared and I published a Corner post commenting on his work, I received a statement from Pornhub, which was adamant that, first, essentially no child sexual-abuse pornography appears on its site and, second, that its moderation policies were in no way at fault if such content happens to appear.

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Alexandra DeSanctis

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It’s been less than a week since New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof published a long feature piece about a number of children who were raped or sexually abused and later had videos of that abuse uploaded to Pornhub, a major host of Internet pornography.

Shortly after Kristof’s article appeared and I published a Corner post commenting on his work, I received a statement from Pornhub, which was adamant that, first, essentially no child sexual-abuse pornography appears on its site and, second, that its moderation policies were in no way at fault if such content happens to appear.