It’s Way Worse Than You Think: P*rnhub | Laila Mickelwait EP 225
In a Nutshell
Pornhub profited massively from unverified user uploads riddled with child rape, trafficking, non-consensual abuse, and revenge porn—exposing kids as young as 3, with executives ignoring takedown requests for years while algorithms promoted illegal content like "drugged" teens and CSAM-adjacent categories. Laila Mickelwait's Traffickinghub campaign amassed 2.3 million signatures, forced Visa/Mastercard cutoffs, an unprecedented 80% content purge (10 million videos), CEO resignations, criminal charges, and a $400M distressed sale of parent MindGeek, but verified uploaders still posted child rape monetized for hundreds of thousands of views. Urgent fixes include mandatory age/consent verification for every video performer, viewer age checks (now in Supreme Court battles), the Take It Down Act for rapid removals, and parental strategies like shame-free zones to combat sextortion, porn addiction escalation to CSAM, and kids' early hardcore exposure warping sexual templates.
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PornHub spent millions making itself a household mainstream brand: people wore their apparel in public, walked New York Fashion Week, faux commercials on Saturday Night Live. Site makes most money selling 4.6 billion ad impressions daily. Played underage guessing game, Russian roulette guessing who's 16 vs 18, rough sex vs rape. Solution: age and consent verification for every person in every video. No verification for uploaders or viewers accessing free site; kids exploited in front and behind screen.
Laila Mickelwait, founder and CEO of Justice Defense Fund, founder of Traffickinghub movement to shut down PornHub and hold executives responsible for globally distributing and profiting from rape, child sexual abuse, trafficking, non-consensual content. Fighting trafficking 18 years. Realized trafficking filmed and distributed online by big porn industry, dominated by PornHub's parent company.
Middle of night early 2020, unexpected discovery changed her life, launched Traffickinghub global movement. Nine days after son born, end of 2019: 15-year-old girl from Broward County, Florida missing year, found via PornHub user tip recognizing her; in 58 videos raped for profit, account daddy [__], rapist matched via 7-Eleven surveillance; rescued, impregnated.
London Sunday Times found dozens illegal videos within minutes, including children as young as 3 years old.
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