Porn sites legal and social cleanup

[Tigerstretch]

I decided to post this just to share my thoughts on the topic. Feel free to remove as needed.

Recently you had to live under a rock if you had not heard about Pornhub being under pressure following the NY Times article about child abuse. This is a Canadian/Montreal based company so I see exactly what is happening at the social, political, and legal level at the moment, so I can share my local perspective and what will happen next to not only that company but what will follow.

First, I think NY Times took off the blindfold on a real and serious issue. The lack of will and capacity from the Porn giants to do whats right and remove illegal content from their site needed to be addressed. Nobody wants to watch child abuse, and if you do, you seriously need a therapist. Pornhub and others simply did a poor job at addressing that problem and it exploded in there faces.

The sad part. Instead of legislatively take care of the issue, a social trial took place. Visa and MasterCard took on themselves to punish the company, the media portrayed Pornhub like a company that only hosted illegal videos, and the local radios convinced people that if you were a woman, you were automatically a victim and if you were a male, you were automatically an abuser. There is also a serious attack on people sexual behaviors. I'm sorry, women, if you are kinky, our local media will explain to you that you've been manipulated by us, males.

Our Canadian politicians have been missing in action for the past 20 years, not giving the police the tools they needed to do there job and failed to provide clear guidelines to avoid this loss of control, and now they all try to look virtuous by overregulating the industry and by putting in place an amount of laws that are not adressing the issues and will punish the wrong people. Those will range from having to identify yourself officially before watching porn to telling what is okay to watch or not. I would not be surprised if they came up with something like "the company cannot host a porn video that is not explicitly display consent before during and after the act".

All that to say, as an attempt for survival, Pornhub has removed 3/4 of all it's videos yesterday following this social attack. Goodluck finding a fetish video on that site now. Only identified members can post content now.

Don't get me wrong. It's about time to look at this problem. Child abuse is real, unregulated access to porn is real, porn addiction is real, and victims should be protected. But once more, in Canada, they sat on their hands for 20 years, and now that they don't have a choice but to react, the media enjoy those juicy headlines and the government hypocritically will attack everybody except the criminals.

So much for the rule of law. This will just push the problem to where people can't see it and will prevent honest and morally balance people to have a private life behind the door of their bedroom. Oh, and if you are a woman, don't worry, the government will protect you against your self deviancies in the name of feminism.

Just wanted to share my thoughts on the topic.