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For the second time, out of the tens of millions of videos on the platform critics found illegal content numbering in the dozens. Their enforcement was sufficient to drive down illegal content to literally one in a million rate of occurrence. Weighted by number of views on videos, it's probably an even smaller fraction of that. The filter was sufficient to make illegal content something that the overwhelming majority of people - almost everyone - will never see when using their platform.

By comparison, critics described pornhub as:

> Human beings of all ages, races, genders, and sexualities are being abused while Pornhub pockets profits from selling said abuse and exploitation online. It's nearly impossible to stress strongly enough the fact that these cases are far from anomalies.

https://exoduscry.com/downloads/Statement-of-Inclusion.pdf

This is utterly disingenuous. If dozens of instances out of tens of millions isn't an anomaly, what is?



> For the second time, out of the tens of millions of videos on the platform critics found illegal content numbering in the dozens.

Can you say that was all of it? Frankly, I don't see how anyone can have any confidence that PornHub's previous moderation practices were effective. Some of the stuff they have to remove is too hard to detect without context which is not present in the content itself. Also, those practices put the onus on the wrong party (e.g. forcing someone who had illegal or otherwise improper videos of themselves uploaded to find them and play whack-a-mole as they got reuploaded).

> The filter was sufficient to make illegal content something that the overwhelming majority of people - almost everyone - will never see when using their platform.

And now they have an even more effective filter.

And you're twisting the goalposts: "the overwhelming majority of people" aren't going to seek out illegal content, so talking about what the "majority sees" is actually ignoring the problem.




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