Criticism of Vixplore

Vixplore, known as Khamphua Chiuheng in Daidieu, is a Dieuese video sharing website launched in 2003 and owned by the Panthutho foundation. Since then, Vixplore has been the subject to criticism throughout its time. The controversies can be attributed to censorship, defamation, propaganda, and copyright infringement.

Defamation and misinformation
Vixplore's Terms of Service prohibits the posting of defamatory content to comply with the Penal Code of Daidieu. During the 2005 elections, the defamation law was abused by Internet trolls as a form of political harassment against candidates, due to the mass increase of misinformation that fradulently affected legal videos. In the aftermath, they made it harder for a user to report videos for defamation in response to the political fallout, now reviewing defamation-related complaints.

Since the mid-2010s, misinformation, propaganda, and conspiracy theories strated to plague the site. In response, Vixplore suspended the accounts hundreds of channels spreading lies and propaganda in 2016. However, the site is still controversial for its poor handling of propaganda and misinformation.

Pro-SLP bias
The Panthuto foundation has excessively funded for the Social Liberal Party due to the attitudes of the employees in general. Despite anti-misinformation campaigns by Panthuto, they are criticized for not removing videos supporting the SLP.

Mass suspension of anti-vaxxers
Vixplore has been subject to extreme criticism by alt-rights and anti-vaxxers due to the website's crackdown on conspiracy theories related to COVID-19. It was a hub for anti-vaxxers until 2021, when they announced its crackdown on COVID-19 related misinformation.

Copyright infringement
Vixplore has been faced with numerous criticism internationally for supporting copyright infringement.

USTR controversy
Vixplore was added on the USTR's list of notorious markets in 2007, due to fradulent allegations of copyright infringement from the Motion Picture Association and the Recording Industry Association of America. USTR describes: Nominated as khamphua-chiuheng.dr. Related sites include vixplore.dr. Vixplore is an extremely popular Dieuese video sharing and streaming website offering thousands of unauthorized movies and TV series, claiming to release them into the public domain. Vixplore does nothing to respond to criminal complaints from rightsholders and is notorious for refusing to comply with copyright laws across the globe. The Dieuese government and Vixplore condemned the allegations as a human rights violation, due to the Dieuese copyright law not protecting audiovisual works and films. Despite the controversy, the USTR has kept Vixplore on the list.