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comment by goobster
goobster  ·  1437 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Money talks - Pornhub Just Purged All Unverified Content From the Platform

Verification isn't hard when there is a bank account and taxes need to be paid.

Once you make anything a business that handles actual currency (and not just free uploads for the lulz) things suddenly get a lot more serious. Sure, at a certain echelon there are ways around that too, but offshoring money with dodgy legal schemes is not accessible to your usual paramedic or college student. So there's a window of opportunity for people to "do better" in there...