Massive lawsuit filed against Pornhub.
I got this in my mailbox. In the most significant hit against Pornhub and its parent company MindGeek to date, an explosive RICO, racketeering, trafficking, and child pornography lawsuit was filed on behalf of 34 victims, 14 of whom were children when they were sexually assaulted and abused for Pornhub's profit. The 176-page lawsuit complaint lays out in disturbing detail not only that Pornhub was engaged in the intentional monetization and distribution of “child pornography”/CSAM, rape, criminal abuse, and sex trafficking, but was also operating as a “classic criminal enterprise.” In the lawsuit, whistleblowers from inside the company reveal a mafia-like culture where top executives are involved with crimes such as money laundering, tax evasion, and racketeering. However, the most important part of the complaint centres around the harrowing stories of Pornhub's victims. Courageous survivor Serena Flietes led the lawsuit. She was the young woman who went public in the December New York Times expose that sent seismic shockwaves of awareness worldwide. Jane Doe 1 told her story of being trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein at the age of 10 years old onward and having many videos of her childhood sexual abuse uploaded and re-uploaded to the site. In some instances, her traffickers forced her to upload her abuse videos to Pornhub as a form of punishment. Jane Doe 2 was extorted and blackmailed as a child by the notorious sadistic pedophile Abul Elahi and the videos of her trauma uploaded and monetized on Pornhub again and again. Jane Does 3-34 also recount how crime scene footage of their child abuse, rape, assault, trafficking, and other forms of criminal non-consensual image-based abuse was used by Pornhub for profit. This lawsuit appears to be one of the last nails in the coffin for Pornhub and will likely be used as an essential roadmap for future criminal investigations and prosecutions of Pornhub, MindGeek, and its executives. Last week was a bad week for Pornhub and a good week for humankind. ,,,,,,, Update. I got another notification in my mailbox! Xtube porn site is shutting down in major win against MindGeekAfter being sent a tip, I was the first advocate to announce publicly that MindGeek, the parent company of Pornhub, is shutting down Xtube, one of their most prominent porn “tube” sites founded in 2006. MindGeek was trying to quietly and mysteriously let Xtube fade away, but something as significant as this was not going to stay hidden for long. Xtube was the first major porn site to allow users to upload their own videos. Now they are the first to be completely shut down due to the ongoing collective global effort to stop MindGeek’s decade-long reign of distributing sexual crime scene footage for profit. In December, Pornhub, MindGeek’s flagship site, was on the verge of a shutdown as they were forced to delete 80% of the site’s content, totaling 10 million videos. This dramatic move came on the heels of MasterCard, Visa, and Discover cutting ties with the MindGeek due to confirming the presence of child sexual abuse and rape on Pornhub. Grant Thornton, PayPal, Heinz/Unilever, Comcast/Xfinity have also stopped doing business with Pornhub and MindGeek. On top of the financial strangulation of being cut off from credit card processors, six lawsuits have been filed against Pornhub in recent months on behalf of 97 victims, many of whom were underage when exploited for Pornhub’s profit. The most significant of the lawsuits is a landmark case filed in June on behalf of 34 victims who sued Pornhub and MindGeek for racketeering, child pornography, sex trafficking, and more. Visa was also named as a defendant in the case for knowingly profiting from the abuse of the victims. Big things are happening. Let’s keep the collective pressure on until justice has been fully served.MindGeek’s site Xtube has now officially been shut down! Xtube was the first major free “porn tube” site on the Internet, and now, it is the first of MindGeek’s sites to go dark completely. The most likely cause for the shutdown was the site being a financial drain and liability to the disgraced and financially crippled Big Porn company that is now being sued in six major lawsuits on behalf of 97 victims. On Tuesday, The Globe and Mail reported that MindGeek/Pornhub has been “bleeding money for the past nine months.” Insider sources told the reporters that “the company’s revenue plummeted in 2021 because of the costs associated with defending the lawsuits, and a sharp drop in sales because users could no longer pay for content using MasterCard and Visa.”My response? Good. If MindGeek bleeds long enough, it will eventually die, and that is the fate it deserves for a decade of enabling and profiting from the criminal sexual abuse of countless victims. This serves as a lesson to the other major, Big Porn tube sites who have been operating in the same way. The evidence is showing that the impact of holding MindGeek accountable is having a domino effect throughout the industry. One of MindGeek’s largest competitors, xHamster, recently upended their business model and began only allowing age and ID-verified uploads, including requiring the ID verification of all individuals in all videos. This significant change to xHamster’s business model and policies further proves that holding the largest company in Big Porn, MindGeek, accountable will impact the entire industry, helping to halt image-based sexual abuse for generations to come. Let’s keep fighting because we are making progress! On Friday, MasterCard enacted a global policy that has been in the works for several months that prohibit the use of the card on all user-generated porn sites that do not verify the age and the consent of the millions of individuals in the videos they profit from. For over a decade, Big Porn tube sites have exploited victims for a profit with impunity, creating their sites to monetize criminal sexual abuse with ease rather than combat it. Case in point: Pornhub, the largest and most popular porn site globally and the tenth most trafficked website across the Internet, with 47 billion visits and seven million videos uploaded per year, was allowing users to upload sex videos with only an email address. No ID was required to show it wasn’t a child, no consent form to show it wasn’t a rape, trafficking, or revenge porn victim--only an email address. But things are changing, and the era of impunity for these predatory Big Porn corporations is over. 14/11/2021 18:32 In another big win for the collective movement to shut down Pornhub and hold its executives accountable for complicity in mass sexual crime, Roku has banned Pornhub and other unauthorized private pornography channels from its service. Pornhub has just lost the ability to reach 55 million users through Roku. The Roku victory comes on the heels of other major corporations cutting ties with Pornhub. So far, PayPal, Visa, MasterCard, Discover, Heinz/Unilever, Grant Thornton, and Comcast/Xfinity have also stopped doing business with this predatory company because it has been confirmed again and again that the site has been enabling, monetizing, and globally distributing child pornography/CSAM, sex trafficking, rape, and other forms of criminal image-based abuse. There has also been a recent legal victory for victims. Pornhub agreed to compensate 50 sex-trafficking survivors who had sued the company in December 2020 for profiting from their abuse for years. The women were seeking $100 million in damages, and the settlement was for an undisclosed amount. Money cannot compensate for the trauma these women have suffered, but it is a significant step toward justice.Thank you for being an essential part of the global movement to hold Pornhub and other Big Porn corporations who operate like them accountable for their actions. It is only through joint, collective action that we can effectively make a difference and prevent the abuse of millions of victims for generations to come. Let’s keep fighting because we are winning! ,“We’re talking about a business built on underage, nonconsensual and pirated content.”This week a 500 million dollar class-action lawsuit was filed against Pornhub and its parent company MindGeek in Toronto, Canada, on behalf of all victims throughout Canada that have had illegal, non-consensual images or videos on the site since 2007, including child abuse, rape, and trafficking. Plaintiff Christine Wing led the lawsuit and said, “What does one have when you’ve lost your privacy in the worst way? This is a violation of the most egregious kind.” The firm filing the suit said that Wing “is one of the thousands of Canadians who may have fallen victim to sexual exploitation.” The firm added that “damages are estimated to be up to $500 million excluding additional punitive or aggravated damages.” “It is astonishing how little safeguards PornHub had against harm,” said Darryl Singer, Head of Commercial and Civil litigation at Diamond and Diamond Lawyers. “We’re talking about a business built on under-age, non-consensual and pirated content.” The Justice Defense Fund applauds the filing of this case and the incredible bravery of survivor Christine Wing to stand up on behalf of all exploited Canadian victims publicly and take on these major global corporate traffickers and abusers. If you or someone you know has had nonconsensual images or videos shared online, the Justice Defense Fund is here to provide support. You can reach out to us anytime. Germany and France take action to protect children from Big Porn exploitation In other news, the governments of France and Germany are taking bold action to prevent the abuse of children who have unrestricted access to free Big Porn tube sites. France has taken the first step towards banning Pornhub and its largest competitors because they failed to comply with the law by preventing access by children. Likewise, Germany recently blocked the major free porn tube site xHamster throughout the country because they continued to exploit children by allowing unrestricted access to the site by minors. Listen to a recent interview I did on the Shaping Opinion podcast where I speak about all of these issues and the need to protect children and adult victims from abuse. Let us continue to fight to make the Internet a safer place for children, women and men for generations to come.Until We Prevail — Laila MickelwaitAnother victory for us to celebrate it together! In the meantime, have fun watching this astounding restoration of a mini portable TV appliance manufactured by CROWN in 1978., The victory is ours! They can run, but they cannot hide from justice. These websites are dead! It was about time for this to happen. Next on the list, shitty last.FM and probably, this website.
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