Most porn used to be produced by major studios, but now those studios are all but gone, marginalized or put out of business entirely by the increasing amount of free and self-produced content. Considering the history, should porn performers be surprised that the massive search engine is upholding its terms of service when it hasn’t allowed pornographic content in the past throughout multiple avenues of their services? The Internet is Killing PornĬouple a company policy that restricts explicit content from being shared as well as the fact that the internet is slowly but surely killing the porn industry, and it isn’t difficult to see how performers and producers alike are struggling to stay afloat in a shady business that thrives off of exploitation. This isn’t the first time Google has distanced itself from pornographic content, disallowing any links to porn sites or sexually explicit language in their Google AdWords program, as well as not allowing any sexually explicit content on their popular blogging platform, Blogger.
According to Google, Drive uses a combination of automated systems and manual review to decide what’s in violation. Writing about porn and sex is permitted, the policy states, as long as it’s not accompanied by sexually explicit images or videos. When the Motherboard reporter contacted Google about the sexual content being blocked on Drive, a spokesperson directed them to the Drive policy page-specifically the section on sexually explicit material, which says, “Do not publish sexually explicit or pornographic images or videos… Additionally, we do not allow content that drives traffic to commercial pornography.” Some performers claim some explicit stored videos or images are disappearing without warning or explanation.
But now, at least half a dozen performers are speaking out on social media and claiming their content is being flagged with error messages for violating Google’s terms of service. ( Trigger warning: link contains pornographic terms.)įor many webcammers and other porn performers that send private content to consumers through Google Drive, keeping content in the online storage platform is somewhat of an industry norm and has been for the last few years. Google has been flagging explicit content from porn performers in Google Drive, according to a new report by Motherboard.
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