| >PornHub would delete video uploaded by userA. userB would reupload with different video name Allowing (re-)upload of prohibited or previously removed content is a fatal flaw, and I find it hard to believe they've been allowing it for so long without either being staggeringly incompetent as an organisation, or wilfully turning a blind eye in the name of profits. There are various lists of hashes for Child Sexual Abuse Materials which I'm sure they'd have access to, and they could license something like Microsoft PhotoDNA [1] (or implement something similar themselves, it's not like they're lacking the tech talent) which is able to detect image alterations that break simple checksum comparisons and operate on video content. They don't need to play whack-a-mole, for the most part this should be a solved problem. Obviously if it's new content that hasn't been fingerprinted before you still need manual reporting and moderation, but they could and should be scanning against known CSAM on upload and quarantining it / shadow banning the user until it can be evaluated by a human and passed off to law enforcement. It's hard to do this at scale given how much content they ingest every day, but they need to bite the bullet and invest some cash and engineering time - what they are doing now simply isn't good enough. Hopefully having the spotlight put on them will force them to do the right thing. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoDNA |