> Why is that content even allowed on the public internet?
Consenting adults can do whatever they like, including creating consensual/fake hidden camera pornography, and there's quite some market for such content. In general, at a glance, there's no way to distinguish legitimate from illegitimate content, no matter the pornographic (or other) genre. So how do you know what's illegal and what's not? It's by no means easy to solve at the level of an individual piece, let alone at scale. Many of the proposed solutions amount to mass surveillance, invade the privacy of performers, or make it so onerous to upload pornography that they effectively amount to bans of it. It's no secret that the Christian Right are quietly supportive of certain “anti-exploitation” approaches because they would destroy the market for legal pornography, putting sex workers out of work. It's a very difficult balancing act and no position avoids harming someone.
Consenting adults can do whatever they like, including creating consensual/fake hidden camera pornography, and there's quite some market for such content. In general, at a glance, there's no way to distinguish legitimate from illegitimate content, no matter the pornographic (or other) genre. So how do you know what's illegal and what's not? It's by no means easy to solve at the level of an individual piece, let alone at scale. Many of the proposed solutions amount to mass surveillance, invade the privacy of performers, or make it so onerous to upload pornography that they effectively amount to bans of it. It's no secret that the Christian Right are quietly supportive of certain “anti-exploitation” approaches because they would destroy the market for legal pornography, putting sex workers out of work. It's a very difficult balancing act and no position avoids harming someone.