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It's important to note that focus on P*rnhub and hasty withdraw of payment process at a time when Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is being debated and potentially radically altered.
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"Section 230 [was] crafted to solve what might be called the 'moderator’s dilemma'. In the mid-1990s regulators worried that online firms would refrain from policing their services for fear this would […] open them up to costly lawsuits." https://www.economist.com/international/2020/06/04/donald-trump-has-reignited-a-debate-about-regulating-speech-online
Lawmakers are already chipping away at Section 230, and Trump has threatened to blocked a defense spending bill if it isn't repealed (though he doesn't seem to have support from Congress).
"FOSTA-SESTA, became US law in 2017. The stated goal of this law was to reduce human trafficking by amending [CDA 230]. What the law has actually done is put increased pressure on Internet platforms to censor their users." https://hackinghustling.org/erased-the-impact-of-fosta-sesta-2020/
"Like FOSTA, EARN IT [a new bill under consideration] ostensibly seeks to diminish a serious social problem (abuse of children) by increasing the liability of social media platforms…" https://peepshowmedia.com/2020/09/08/earn-it-poses-a-new-threat-to-a-sex-workers-community-that-is-already-reeling/
"but in addition to creating increased tech platform liability even broader than FOSTA’s, this new bill would create a commission charged with developing a list of 'best practices' for tech companies." https://peepshowmedia.com/2020/09/08/earn-it-poses-a-new-threat-to-a-sex-workers-community-that-is-already-reeling/
