Terms of Service: Perez Hilton

Terms of Service: A Pornhub Podcast

Society & Culture

4.3 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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This episode features the notorious Perez Hilton - of the infamous PerezHilton.com, the early 2000s celebrity gossip blog that broke the internet before that was even a thing. We discuss his recent encounters with social media censorship, the ethics of self-censoring, and how becoming a parent can soften even those of us most dedicated to being scandalous. Terms of Service is a Pornhub podcast on censorship and the politics of free speech co-hosted by Asa Akira, a Pornhub brand ambassador and renowned performer, and Alex Kekesi, Pornhub’s Head of Brand and Community. With guests from the arts, film and fashion alongside sex work advocates, porn stars and academics, Terms of Service discusses the diverse, and often overlooked, aspects of censorship including deplatforming, cancellation, and shadowbanning, banking and financial discrimination, and the uneven treatment of adult performers on social media.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Terms of Service, a new Porn Hub Podcast. This is a show where I Asa Akira, a porn star, along with my boss
0:15.2	Alex Kuchese, the VP of Branda Community at Pornhub, talk with people from
0:20.0	various industries and points of view regarding matters of censorship,
0:23.7	deplatforming, free speech, and the most interesting thing in the world, sex.
0:28.6	Today's episode features the notorious Perez Hilton,
0:32.2	a blogger who is no stranger to controversy,
0:35.0	de-platforming, and the sometimes good, sometimes bad impact that media has on us all.
0:40.0	For those of you who don't know, he started the celebrity gossip site Perez Hilton.com in 2005, and within six months it was named, quote,
0:49.0	Hollywood's most hated website. He's made a career out of documenting celebrities, often at their worst
0:55.9	moments and has gone through his own journey of self-reflection as a purveyor of gossip.
1:00.8	We discuss the importance of free speech and its limits including his recent encounters with
1:06.9	social media censorship and the ethics of self-censoring.
1:12.0	How do you want to get into? Let's just get into it. Let's just get into it.
1:15.6	Let's just get into it. All right, I'm Perez Hilton. I'll just take over your podcast. I was actually really excited
1:20.8	when you guys reached out and wanted me to chat with you because there's
1:25.4	like a direct connection.
1:29.4	When you got banned on Instagram, I made a video about it and well I'm a little bit of a rule
1:37.6	breaker muck breaker and don't like to play by the rules myself sometimes.
1:44.2	So I've been banned on Tik-Tok.
1:49.0	For whatever reasons they want,
1:50.6	they don't even have to give me a reason. At least Meta, which owns
1:55.2	Instagram, gave some BS reason as to why Porn Hub was taken off of Instagram, which just seems untrue to me.
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