LOS ANGELES — In response to media reports about a petition that claims rampant upload of non-consensual content to Pornhub, the company has issued a statement outlining the safety procedures in place to prevent such material from appearing on its platform.
The statement from Blake White, VP for Pornhub, follows:
Pornhub has a steadfast commitment to eradicating and fighting any and all illegal content on the internet, including non-consensual content and child sexual abuse material. Any suggestion otherwise is categorically and factually inaccurate.
While the wider tech community must continue to develop new methods to rid the internet of this horrific content, Pornhub is actively working to put in place state-of-the-art, comprehensive safeguards on its platform to combat this material.
These actions include a robust system for flagging, reviewing and removing all illegal material; employing an extensive team of human moderators dedicated to manually reviewing all uploads to the site; and using a variety of digital fingerprinting solutions.
We use automated detection technologies such as YouTube's CSAI Match and Microsoft's PhotoDNA as added layers of protection to keep unauthorized content off the site. We also use Vobile, a state-of-the-art fingerprinting software that scans any new uploads for potential matches to unauthorized materials to protect against any banned video being re-uploaded to the platform. To this end, we are actively working on expanding our safety measures and adding new features and products to our platform as they become available.
Furthermore, Pornhub will continue to work with law enforcement efforts and child protection nonprofits in the goal of eliminating any and all illegal content across the internet.
The petition is not only factually wrong and intentionally misleading; it was created and is promoted by a radical right-wing fundamentalist group in the United States, a group whose founders have long vilified and attacked LGBTQ communities and women’s rights groups, aligned themselves with hate groups, and espoused extremist and despicable language.