The company could not say Tuesday what percentage of that was from unverified users. The website has a huge volume of material: 6.8 million new videos were uploaded last year.
It will still allow new material from partners it knows, like porn production companies. Pornhub said next year it will announce ways in which individuals can become verified users. But, in a blog post on Tuesday, the company listed steps it was taking to further protect against images of abuse and nonconsensual activity on its site. Montreal-based Pornhub said that it doesn't knowingly allow images of sexual abuse of children. Visa and Mastercard said over the weekend that they are investigating their business relationship with Pornhub after Nicholas Kristof, opinion columnist at The New York Times, wrote that the site also carries revenge pornography and other explicit video taken without consent of the participants. NEW YORK - Pornhub said Tuesday it was halting unverified users from uploading video material after a report alleged that the pornographic website was showing videos of rape and underage sex.
