While requiring account verification to upload videos to Pornhub cracks down on exploitative content, it is not a bulletproof solution because it still doesn’t ensure that videos are exploitation-free.
To understand just how popular and normalized porn is, one needs to look no further than the metrics Pornhub records and publishes at the end of each year.
“It all began when my father brought home the first issue of Playboy magazine in 1953… By the time I graduated from high school and went away to college, I was seriously addicted.”
A settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed on behalf of 50 women who sued Pornhub’s parent company for hosting videos produced by porn company GirlsDoPorn.
The world’s largest porn company is being sued by abuse and trafficking survivors. Here’s what their cases are about and what the lawsuit means.
In case you missed it, there’s been a lot going on with one of the world’s largest porn sites, Pornhub, owned by the world’s largest porn company, MindGeek.
Out of 34 plaintiffs, 14 say they were victims of underage sex trafficking. The plaintiffs come from various US states, the UK, and Thailand.
The ethics committee released a report recommending that the Canadian federal government strengthen laws to curb the spread of child sexual exploitation material and rape videos online.
At least 50 women are suing MindGeek for allegedly knowingly profiting from images and videos of their sex trafficking nightmares and failing to properly moderate sites owned by MindGeek for the abusive videos.
With the increased availability of internet porn, women are becoming just as active on porn sites as men. This isn’t just a guy problem.
The world now knows how involved the world’s largest porn company has been in reporting child abuse content uploaded to its sites, and it’s seemingly disturbingly lacking.
Fight the New Drug has joined a collective of 104 survivors of sexual exploitation and 525 NGOs from 65 countries that have sent a letter to a Canadian Parliamentary Committee praising the committee’s actions thus far, and urging a “full criminal investigation” into MindGeek.
