MasterCard breaks collaboration with Pornhub – VG

Informs among others Reuters.

On Monday, MasterCard began investigating the world’s largest pornography site, following accusations that they allow the sharing of abuse videos. Now they are taking action and breaking the collaboration.

This week’s New York Times revealed objectionable conditions on the pornography website. In the article, several young women report that videos of them have been shared on Pornhub, without their knowledge and will. Several of the videos are to show women when they are under the age of sexual consent and are therefore considered abusive material.

New York Times journalist Nicholas Kristof writes Twitter that MasterCard has stated the following:

“As of today, you can no longer use our cards on Pornhub. Our investigation over the last few days has confirmed violations of our standards prohibiting illegal content. We continue to investigate potentially illegal content on other sites.”

Bloomberg has also mentioned the case. MasterCard hasn’t even made a public statement.

Credit card company VISA is also temporarily halting collaboration, they write. Twitter.

Reject the accusations

Pornhub is the largest porn website in the world and is owned by the Canadian company Mindgeek. They themselves have denied all the accusations.

“Any claim that we allow videos depicting child sexual abuse is irresponsible and manifestly false,” the website wrote in a statement to the New York Times.

Pornhub has had bad weather since the article and announced this week that they are tightening the guidelines.

Billionaire Bill Ackman is gone and he also encouraged the American Express credit card company to do like MasterCard and VISA.

Guidelines update

The porn site only allows verified users to upload videos and the feature has been stopped for all users. The verification process will start next year.

They have also removed the ability to download videos, which previously made deleted footage easily reappear.

“Today we are taking great steps to further protect our society,” they wrote on the website Tuesday.

Pornhub has 3.5 billion views per month, from all over the world. This spring, Save the Children published a report on the sexual habits of young people.

Many girls were revealed to have engaged in sexual acts that they or their partner have seen in pornography, even though they experienced it as borderline, painful, or offensive.