Look I am all for stopping rape videos, child porn and revenge porn, as well as exploitation.

However a blanket deletion of the majority of content on PH, I don't think that was the solution.

I have friends who are amateur pornographers who make money by posting their OWN videos of themselves on PH and they are verified, but the Visa/MC withdrawal from PH hurt them. Especially given that the "models" on PH are the ones who get paid from PH, and no one got paid by PH unless they were ALREADY verified. And that was before the Visa/MC withdrawal and the deletion.

I feel like Pornhub was singled out for some reason while all the evil content on sites like Facebook (which hosts far more CP and rape than PH ever did) and sites like Heavy-R and all the Pornhub alternatives, is ignored. There needs to be a smarter, more targeted approach to stopping this kind of content.

You really don't think all the evil people who posted rape videos and other exploitation videos, didn't have copies on a hard drive that they then uploaded to a different site? Of course they did. This was a symbolic "win" that ultimately changed nothing for the victims and didn't actually help anyone long-term.

The one thing I think could be positive as a result from this is that Pornhub might rebrand as the "safe" porn site and really try and be ethical as a point of difference to all the other sites hosted elsewhere with all the nastier content. This could be a good thing. Unfortunately the spectre of rape and exploitation won't go away because Pornhub was targeted though.