Pornhub was internet hosting movies of minors and trafficking victims — what’s subsequent?
In February 2020, Laila Mickelwait, Exodus Cry’s Director of Abolition on the time, revealed an op-ed titled, “Time to Shut Pornhub Down,” bringing consideration to the truth that Pornhub was internet hosting little one pornography and movies of trafficking victims on the positioning. This sparked a petition and accompanying marketing campaign, Traffickinghub. Then, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Nicholas Kristof, revealed a scathing exposé within the New York Instances, titled, “The Youngsters of Pornhub,” main the corporate to leap to motion, deleting 80% of their content material in a single day — about 10 million movies. Visa, Mastercard, and Uncover lower ties with the positioning. In 2021, Canadian parliament started to investigate the Canadian-based firm that owns Pornhub, MindGeek and quite a few lawsuits have been filed in opposition to the corporate on behalf of survivors. NCOSE — the Nationwide Centre on Sexual Exploitation — filed a number of of those lawsuits, representing victims looking for justice in opposition to MindGeek. NCOSE was featured in a documentary launched on Netflix final cash, purporting to deal with the scandal, referred to as Cash Shot.
I spoke to Haley McNamara, Director of the Worldwide Centre on Sexual Exploitation within the UK and a Vice President on the U.S. based mostly Nationwide Middle on Sexual Exploitation, in regards to the scenario at Pornhub, the Netflix documentary, and NCOSE’s efforts to cease exploitation in porn.
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