YouTube has eliminated Pornhub’s channel over “a number of” neighborhood guideline violations, as first reported by Variety. In keeping with Google, Pornhub’s account violated YouTube’s external link policy, which prohibits customers from linking to content material that’s not allowed on the platform, reminiscent of pornography.
“Upon evaluation, we terminated the channel Pornhub Official following a number of violations of our Neighborhood Tips,” YouTube spokesperson Jack Malon tells The Verge. “We implement our insurance policies equally for everybody, and channels that repeatedly violate or are devoted to violative content material are terminated.”
Pornhub’s YouTube channel, which had almost 900,000 subscribers earlier than it was taken down, posted safe-for-work content material selling the positioning and its performers. The corporate additionally utilized an age restriction to the movies posted to YouTube that required viewers to be 18 years of age or older, and “vehemently denies” claims that it posted or linked to grownup content material.
“Pornhub maintains the very best belief and security measures on the web and takes particular care to make sure it doesn’t violate any of YouTube’s Neighborhood Tips,” a Pornhub spokesperson tells The Verge, who requested to stay nameless attributable to security causes associated to doxing. “Sadly, that is simply the most recent instance of discrimination in opposition to these within the grownup business, a pattern seen throughout social media and all different aspects of life, particularly as teams disingenuously conflate consensual grownup content material with exploitation.”
The information of Pornhub’s removing from YouTube comes months after Instagram permanently banned Pornhub’s account, citing rule violations relating to nudity, grownup content material, and sexual solicitation. Like YouTube, Instagram similarly claims Pornhub inspired Instagram customers to go away the positioning to view grownup content material. Pornhub responded to the ban with an open letter that criticizes Instagram for eradicating its “totally PG” account, all whereas different creators proceed to submit content material with “nudity and overt sexuality with no repercussions.”