Pornhub has no issue posting videos of child sexual abuse
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In June “Ariana” sued P*rnhub and its owners/executives by name. At age 16 she was coerced by two males who both sexually abused her while the other watched. 9 months later she found out they had secretly recorded the coerced sex acts without her knowledge or consent and had uploaded two of the videos to P*rnhub.
P*rnhub personnel reviewed and approved the child sexual abuse material prior to upload, as they repeatedly have claimed do for every video uploaded. They then heavily monetized the criminal content.
After Ariana learned about the illegal videos, in a panic she reached out to the principal of her high school for help. The principal contacted the sheriff’s office who began an investigation, including interviews of both abusers. During the interviews, both admitted that they knew she was underage and said they attempted to have the videos removed from P*rnhub five months earlier after reading news stories about a prosecution arising from similar criminal actions. But the videos had already been further downloaded.
In an effort to avoid liability, Ariana’s abusers reached out to P*rnhub to have the videos taken down. Pornhub ignored them and continued to commercialize and monetize the illegal child sexual abuse videos. It was only after the sheriff’s office issued a subpoena that the videos were finally disabled.
But the harm was already done.
The videos were already widely viewed and disseminated by tens of thousands of PH users and uploaded to multiple other MindGeek and non-MindGeek owned tube sites.
The widespread and illegal dissemination of the videos throughout the world and her community, caused Ariana severe anxiety and emotional distress. She continues to be treated by a mental health professional to this date.
We know now that PH’s owners and executives intentionally did not verify the age or consent of the individuals in the millions of homemade sex videos that they monetized for profit on the site.
They knew their vast library was infested with child abuse, rape and trafficking, yet chose to monetize and globally distribute the crime scenes anyway.
They also chose to hire only one person, five days per week to review flagged videos, and had a backlog of 706,000 flagged videos.
Not only that, but PH hid the child abuse they were aware of from authorities for over 13 years by not reporting a single child abuse video to child protection agencies.
The courageous victims taking P*rnhub and its owners to court deserve justice and reparations NOW.
#Takedown #Traffickinghub
*psudonym used
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