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Pornhub Content Purge

CrossyCross said:
It's snowballing, and getting worse and worse. Fucking hell I hate this year.
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Oh its just going to get worse
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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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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.
 
Stanley_Jeb said:
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.
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...what.
 
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.
 
Stanley_Jeb said:
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.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39187929
To test Facebook's claim, the BBC used the report button to alert the company to 100 images which appeared to break its guidelines. They included:

pages explicitly for men with a sexual interest in children
images of under-16s in highly sexualised poses, with obscene comments posted beside them
groups with names such as "hot xxxx schoolgirls" containing stolen images of real children
an image that appeared to be a still from a video of child abuse, with a request below it to share "child pornography"

Of the 100 images only 18 were removed.
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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.
 
Chastity said:
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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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.
 
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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...what.
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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?
 
Lemonbarb said:
I'm going to assume Fake News on that article, until that shit's on more authentic newspapers.
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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?
Fintech resolves the dilemma by tapping various nonfinancial data: the type of browser and hardware used to access the internet, the history of online searches and purchases. Recent research documents that, once powered by artificial intelligence and machine learning, these alternative data sources are often superior than traditional credit assessment methods, and can advance financial inclusion, by, for example, enabling more credit to informal workers and households and firms in rural areas.
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There was even a link to the paper they used.
 
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!

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Megaolix said:
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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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.
 
Megaolix said:
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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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".
 
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.)
 
magic9mushroom said:
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.)
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Don't start anything please. Rule 8 is still here.
 
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