I remember on Reddit that the various gonewild communities have verification processes to ensure everyone posting content is over the age of 18. I’m not entirely sure how the communities here work, but I figured some of the mods for those spaces here probably lurk asklemmynsfw; hence posting the question here!
(sorry if that made no sense! I’m not great at wording things lol)
I also ANAL but I’m pretty sure ThePirateBay tried the “we don’t host the material ourselves” argument and it didn’t work out well for them. In any case, even if you’re not in the wrong, having to prove that to a judge in a court is more time consuming and expensive than shutting down the server.