Driving the news: Pornhub this week announced a series of changes, including stepped-up moderation, temporarily limiting uploads to known content producers, and eliminating the ability to download videos.
Yes, but: “I don’t think it’s going to come anywhere close to fixing the whole problem,” Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network CEO Scott Berkowitz told Axios.
For example, he noted that verifying posters is an important step, but doesn’t go far enough to ensure that everyone depicted is a willing, consensual adult.
“There’s been a staggering increase in the amount of child sexual abuse material that’s available,” Berkowitz said, in addition to the posting of revenge porn and other videos that are posted without the consent of all participants.
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