Pornhub: MasterCard, Visa stop payments to porn site amid child abuse scrutiny

First they came for the porn sites. Will they come for the site's customers next? They have the data to do so and could claim that the customers are ultimately to blame

MasterCard and Visa have announced they will suspend payments to Pornhub as the site comes under scrutiny for what it allows on its platform.

Earlier this week news.com.au exclusively reported the horrific daily searches of victims who are forced to look for videos of their own abuse in the hope of getting it removed from Pornhub.

MasterCard and Visa said they’d look into their financial links to the site’s parent company MindGeek, which owns a network of porn sites that also includes YouPorn and Redtube, after The New York Times published an op-ed with disturbing details of missing children appearing in exploitative videos on the site.

On Thursday, MasterCard and Visa stopped processing payments on Pornhub, according to Reuters.

“Our investigation over the past several days has confirmed violations of our standards prohibiting unlawful content on their site,” MasterCard said in a statement reported by the New York Post.

The NYT’s investigation resulted in changes to Pornhubs policies on Tuesday, with the site pledging to crack down on illegal content. Pornhub said it will impose new restrictions on who can upload videos and a hire new squad of content moderators that will seek out potentially illegal material.

In its biggest change, Pornhub will only allow verified users to upload videos to the site. That privilege is currently restricted to Pornhub’s content partners and members of its “Model Program,” which requires performers to verify their identities by uploading a photo of themselves.

“These actions are exceptionally disappointing, as they come just two days after Pornhub instituted the most far-reaching safeguards in user-generated platform history,” the site said of MasterCard and Visa’s moves.

“This news is crushing for the hundreds of thousands of models who rely on our platform for their livelihoods.”

https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/internet/pornhub-mastercard-visa-stop-payments-to-porn-site-amid-child-abuse-scrutiny/news-story/1907126094a1ff2dc23bb083750df9f0

Complaints about Vicar of Dibley Black Lives Matter episode before it even airs

The BBC has defended a forthcoming episode of The Vicar of Dibley which references Black Lives Matter, after more than 100 people complained before it had even aired.

The episode sees the Reverend Geraldine Kennedy, played by Dawn French, taking the knee and discussing the death of George Floyd.

It is part of a new series of 10-minute films for BBC One, The Vicar of Dibley in Lockdown, which addresses events from the past year.

In a statement, the BBC said: “In The Vicar of Dibley in Lockdown, Geraldine shares with her congregation her take on some of the key stories of 2020, including clapping for the NHS, the Black Lives Matter movement, lockdown, and school exams being cancelled.

“She is a much-loved and well-established comic character and will be seen processing the year’s events in her familiar outspoken and high-spirited way.”

In the episode, Geraldine tells viewers: “I’ve been thinking about this Black Lives Matter thing and the horror-show that was the murder of George Floyd... I’m aware that all lives matter, obviously, but until all lives matter the same we’re doing something very wrong, so I think we need to focus on justice for a huge chunk of our countrymen and women who seem to have a very bad weird deal from the day they’re born.”

The character is then seen pinning a Black Lives Matter poster on the parish noticeboard before taking the knee.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/12/10/bbc-garners-100-complaints-vicar-dibley-blm-episode-even-airs/

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