'War Against Sex Workers:' What Visa and Mastercard Dropping Pornhub Means to Performers
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7v33d/sex-workers-what-visa-and-mastercard-dropping-pornhub-means-to-performers
This week, Visa and Mastercard cut ties with Pornhub, a decision sex workers say will only harm their industry, and won't actually help victims of non-consensual imagery.
In what seemed to be a bit of good news on Tuesday, Pornhub announced that it would change its policies to only allow verified users to upload content to, or download from, the platform—as well as enact a more robust moderation process. This was a welcome shift, and was a long time coming: non-consensual sexual imagery activists, as well as performers whose work is often pirated and reposted to Pornhub, have been asking for these changes for years.