YouTube Removes Pornhub Channel – Variety

YouTube removed the official channel of Pornhub, the sex site’s promotional outlet for videos, coming eight years after Pornhub launched its account. Prior to its removal Friday, the Pornhub Official channel had amassed nearly 900,000 subscribers. It was first launched in December 2014. The channel’s URL now displays a 404 (“not found”) error on the web. According to YouTube, Pornhub violated the platform’s policy against linking to external websites that host content that isn’t allowed on YouTube itself. “Upon review, we terminated the channel Pornhub Official following multiple violations of our Community Guidelines,” YouTube spokesperson Jack Malon said in a statement to Variety. “We enforce our policies equally for everyone, and channels that repeatedly violate or are dedicated to violative content are terminated.” A spokesperson for MindGeek, parent company of Pornhub, said the company “vehemently denied” that its YouTube content had linked out to porn sites. “Pornhub maintains the absolute best trust and safety measures on the internet and takes special care to ensure it does not violate any of YouTube’s Community Guidelines,” the company said in a statement. “Unfortunately, this is just the latest example of discrimination against those in the adult industry, a trend seen across social media
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