Pornhub, child sexual abuse materials and anti-pornography campaigning

McKee, A; Lumby, C

Pornhub, child sexual abuse materials and anti-pornography campaigning

McKee, A Lumby, C

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Publisher:: Taylor Francis
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Porn Studies, 2022, 9, (4), pp. 464-476
Issue Date:: 2022-06-29

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dc.contributor.author	McKee, A
dc.contributor.author	Lumby, C
dc.date.accessioned	2023-04-12T21:19:41Z
dc.date.available	2023-04-12T21:19:41Z
dc.date.issued	2022-06-29
dc.identifier.citation	Porn Studies, 2022, 9, (4), pp. 464-476
dc.identifier.issn	2326-8743
dc.identifier.issn	2326-8751
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/169658
dc.description.abstract	This article uses the case study of Nicholas Kristof’s 2020 New York Times article attacking Pornhub for (among other claims) hosting child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) as a way to consider both the real harms caused by Pornhub and the ways in which anti-porn discourses such as Kristof’s distract public debates and policymakers from those harms. While Kristof writes about the challenge that Pornhub faces in trying to remove CSAM from a user-generated site, he ignores the fact that all social media sites, including Facebook and Twitter, face the same challenges. He thus makes it appear that this is a problem of pornography rather than a problem of scalable content moderation in a user-generated digital content ecosystem. At the same time, he ignores the real damage that Pornhub’s piracy-based business model has done to sex work industries and sex workers.
dc.language	en
dc.publisher	Taylor Francis
dc.relation.ispartof	Porn Studies
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1080/23268743.2022.2083662
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.subject	1608 Sociology, 1902 Film, Television and Digital Media, 2001 Communication and Media Studies
dc.title	Pornhub, child sexual abuse materials and anti-pornography campaigning
dc.type	Journal Article
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This article uses the case study of Nicholas Kristof’s 2020 New York Times article attacking Pornhub for (among other claims) hosting child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) as a way to consider both the real harms caused by Pornhub and the ways in which anti-porn discourses such as Kristof’s distract public debates and policymakers from those harms. While Kristof writes about the challenge that Pornhub faces in trying to remove CSAM from a user-generated site, he ignores the fact that all social media sites, including Facebook and Twitter, face the same challenges. He thus makes it appear that this is a problem of pornography rather than a problem of scalable content moderation in a user-generated digital content ecosystem. At the same time, he ignores the real damage that Pornhub’s piracy-based business model has done to sex work industries and sex workers.

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