Visa and Mastercard ban Pornhub over abusive videos
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Summary
Pornhub has been banned from accepting payments over the Visa and Mastercard networks—a serious blow for a site that has come under increasing fire for failing to effectively filter harmful content."The issue is not pornography but rape," wrote New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof in a column last week that inspired the credit card companies' moves. He also found videos of women being raped, creepy hidden-camera videos, and "recordings of assaults on unconscious women and girls."While Pornhub has a moderation team, it's far smaller than those of mainstream social media sites, and Kristof found it was ineffective at blocking even the most offensive videos.Under mounting public pressure, Pornhub's owner—a shadowy, Canada-based porn conglomerate called MindGeek—took several steps on Wednesday to slow the spread of harmful material.
As said here by Timothy B. Lee