In 2013, Thylmann sold his stake in the company to senior management, Feras Antoon and David Tassillo. In March 2010, the company was purchased by Fabian Thylmann as part of the Manwin conglomerate, now known as MindGeek. Pornhub was founded by web developer Matt Keezer as a website within the company Interhub, and launched on. A 2023 documentary, Money Shot: The Pornhub Story, covers the opposition to Pornhub and the views of some pornographic performers. This reduced the content from 13 million to 4 million videos. On 14 December 2020, Pornhub removed all videos by unverified users. In December 2020, following a New York Times exposé on such content (and its associated potential backlash), payment processors Mastercard and Visa cut their services to Pornhub. The company has been criticized for slow or inadequate responses to some of these incidents, including the hosting of the high-profile channel GirlsDoPorn, which was closed in 2019, following a lawsuit and charges of sex trafficking. Incidents have been reported of Pornhub hosting non-consensual pornography. It offers virtual reality porn, amongst other products, and hosts the Pornhub Awards annually. The site is available internationally, but has been blocked by several individual countries (such as India, mainland China, the Philippines, Pakistan and Sri Lanka). In March 2010, the company was bought by MindGeek (known then as Manwin), which owns numerous other pornographic websites. Pornhub also has an office and servers in Limassol, Cyprus. Pornhub was launched in Montreal, Canada, in 2007. As of November 2022, Pornhub is the 13th-most-trafficked website in the world and the second-most-trafficked adult website after XVideos. It is one of several pornographic video-streaming websites owned by MindGeek. “That is still 118 too many, which is why we are committed to taking every necessary action,” the company said.Pornhub is a Canadian-owned internet pornography website. During that same period, the independent, third-party Internet Watch Foundation reported 118 incidents on Pornhub. In the last three years, Facebook self-reported 84m instances of child sexual abuse material. The groups spearheading the effort to police Pornhub include the anti-pornography groups the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (formerly known as Morality in Media) and Exodus Cry/ TraffickingHub. In its statement, Pornhub said it is “being targeted not because of our policies and how we compare to our peers, but because we are an adult content platform”. While the company acknowledged the severity of the accusations, it noted the campaign to crackdown on Pornhub comes from groups that have long campaigned against sex content of all kinds. This makes them eligible to monetize their videos. To become verified, users are required to submit a photo of themselves holding a piece of paper with their username, according to Pornhub’s site. Since Pornhub’s launch in 2007, any user could upload content to the site.
“This news is crushing for the hundreds of thousands of models who rely on our platform for their livelihoods,” Pornhub said of the initial moves from Mastercard. Pornhub’s removal of millions of videos may pose a significant threat to sex workers, already struggling during the pandemic, who use the platform’s sales as a source of income. The purge by Monday morning brought the total number of videos on the site down from 13m to just 4m, a report from Motherboard found. “At Pornhub, the safety of our community is our top priority.” “This means every piece of Pornhub content is from verified uploaders, a requirement that platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat and Twitter have yet to institute,” the company said in a blog posted announcing the changes.
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