GreywolfLord: It wasn't. Out of 13 million videos (rounded) it was around 130 videos (rounded...134 exactly???) vs. Facebook which had over 12 million and Youtube which still has it easily where someone can stumble across the videos.
Why didn't the guy go after Facebook or Youtube?
Because the reporter is a fundamentalist Anti-Porn activist. His intent (which is clear to those who read the article and could see through his BS) was NOT to take down CP...he doesn't care about that...that portion was only to generate outrage and sympathy from others against PH (and some of his statements were shown to be actual lies by other articles on the situation). His REAL intent (and it looks like he is going to be successful with it) was to destroy and take down PH.
Now that it appears that he has done so, he is bragging about it and talking about extending this same tactic to take down other such sites (but not the Fundy Far Right Evangelical Christian favorite sites of Facebook which has FAR more of this type of activity going on...to the surprise of no one who saw through what he was doing).

kohlrak: A fundamentalist Christian at new york times? Did i just wake up in the twilight zone? Fox has been controlled opposition for years even before Donald Trump. I think you're onto something, but you have the wrong motive: PH was in the crosshairs of both the left and the right for a while now, for different reasons. Christians like myself are, more or less, out of the picture. As a result, we're learning our lessons: shouldn't try to legislate morality, because you cannot have morality thorugh force, but only through the freely willed choice to avoid the sin that is available. We lost our last shreds of power because we failed to understand that fundamental position.
Also, since when has facebook protected the far right?
EDIT: And Christian criticism of islam is quickly censored off youtube, but death threats from muslims are apparently not against youtube policies. If you need evidence, co look for Acts17 Apologetics on youtube. He's found sneaky ways to avoid his videos getting taken down, but he loves to remind us what he has to do to accomplish that task.
Yes, it may seem wierd to some, but the reporter is a Fundy (or at least allies with them consistently in taking down Pornsites, stripping and escort groups and anything related to them). Supposedly (I think Rolling Stone did an expose on him after his PH article) he has done this before and even got caught up in a lawsuit when one of his false stories actually started people donating money to a group that lied about many of the facets for his story. He didn't really check out his facts.
His most recent story had much of it's research done with a Anti-Porn Christian group where he supposedly spent (once again, according to Rolling Stone and other groups that wrote articles on what was happening to PH after this New York Times article) months with them in concocting the whole thing. Their Site now brags about his article and their role in it supposedly (I haven't visited their site, just taking the other media articles word for it).
I can't say I think PH was a good site or the best of site, BUT this guy lying about his real purpose and deceiving people and groups into reactions to take it down...That just rubs me wrong. It's anti-free speech for one and also trying to censor what is under someone else's control. In some ways it's very similar to the actions people are saying the CCP did to GOG, but in this case it's this reporter who wrote this article and the group behind him.
He is clever though, it actually wasn't a full on article. He wrote it as an 'opinion' piece which means he didn't have to vet his sources, didn't have to do any journalistic integrity, and has more lax rules because it was an OPINION rather than an actual news report.