Laila Mickelwait
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Apr 2025
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Judge Cormac Carney in California in a case that is suing Visa and Pornhub for monetizing child sexual abuse, what he said, Visa gave Pornhub the very tool through which to complete the crime of knowingly benefiting from child trafficking. I think he said it very well.
Yes, exactly.
He called him like, what it was is co-conspiracy.
That's the key to this is holding the bad actors and their enablers. And the enablers have the power to stop this.
That's the price to pay. Yeah.
Yeah. And they had hundreds of thousands, if not millions of views and had been on the site for years. Yeah. These videos. One of the things that happens is this dark kind of spiral where I hear this a lot from people who come forward and say, hey, I was addicted to this since I was eight years old and 10 and 11.
But obviously there's the psychopaths and the people who are just instantly drawn to that kind of content. But sometimes people go down a road, they don't even realize they're going down.
So with porn, the dopamine hit, you don't necessarily need more porn, but you need different porn to get that same hit. And so what happens is you go more extreme and more extreme. Some people don't, but then it can lead to where you're watching things that you never would have imagined that you would have started with in the beginning.
Oh, they do. So that's how I ended up seeing so much of this illegal content because people all over the world, when they would come in contact with an illegal video on Pornhub, they would search around the internet and then they would send it to me. So I would get the link. And if I clicked on the link, then the algorithm springs into action. So if you see one
horrific rape video of an unconscious woman, then it thinks, okay, I'm going to push more of that. Then you get more and more. And so you go down that, I call it the hell hole of rape on Pornhub.
Oh, that has definitely happened to me. But to the point of ads, one of the things that was horrific to me to realize but not surprising was I actually got to investigate Traffic Junkie, which was their ad arm. And the way that they would target advertisements, so they would sell ads. First of all, they gather so much data about people.
So people think they're going to a free tube site anonymously if you don't use a VPN IP address and income and all this stuff. But anyway, they would sell ads to advertisers targeting specific content. So they would suggest things like you could find rape in Chinese or not 18 or very young teen or screaming teen, all of these different things. And then they could advertise on a particular video.
to people who they understood would be interested in their product. So on a child sexual abuse video, I would see an ad that would say, delete your history after clicking here. And it was targeted to pedophiles so that they, oh, okay, let me click on that ad.
Exactly.
The scary thing, too, is that kids have free access to this site.
The worst things I would never wish on my worst enemy to see that I have personally been traumatized by witnessing on Pornhub, any child— You have 10-year-olds now seeing that. Somebody messaged me two days ago that said, I got addicted to the free porn tube sites when I was six. And it took me on a dark path. And knowing that they're not only seeing—
the hardcore content and the porn content, but actually they could be witnessing real sexual crime as their sex education, creating their sexual template, creating their sexual desires and what they understand about sex from such a young age.
So Pornhub was criminally charged by the U.S. government for knowingly profiting from the trafficking of over 100 women in a particular sex trafficking operation in San Diego. And instead of full prosecution, they were offered a deferred prosecution agreement.
They were told to pay $1.8 million, which is nothing to a company like this, and have a government monitor over their site for three years. And I think the way that they're failing in a situation like that is a slap on the wrist or nothing at all.
Or we don't see them putting the resources, the time, and the attention necessary to actually create a big enough risk for these kinds of abusers to face serious consequences.
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