Laila Mickelwait
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first heard Nov 2024
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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 503. One Woman’s War on P*rnhub | Laila Mickelwait · 2 Dec 2024
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And he's personally being sued. The CEO and the COO, who are also minority shareholders, are also personally being sued because they've been unmasked. And that was a part of this journey.
Not yet.
But they should be. And not just in the U.S. Like here in Canada. Right. Section 631.1 of the Criminal Code in Canada makes it illegal to transmit, possess, advertise child pornography, child sexual abuse material. An aggravating factor in that is if it's monetized, if it's for profit. I mean, this carries serious sentences. And there is no question. Yeah, but it's not being enforced.
It's not being enforced. And that's the question, is why? Why? Why can't we enforce this?
It's not going to come voluntarily. And I guess that's a lesson that we kind of learned over the last four years, battling the credit card companies, even what's happened with Pornhub and having to take down the content they've had to take down and whatnot. It's not going to come.
Well, that's where the solution is. You actually, I think, just nailed it on the head, because how are we going to make sure this doesn't happen again? And it's verification. That's exactly where it's removing the anonymity from those who are uploading, and it's also removing that from those who are in the videos.
For porn, if you're going, I'm not talking about talking on the internet.
We're talking about uploading real sex videos. Yeah. How would you verify?
We have companies, one of them is called Yoti. We have the technology, Yoti, for example. We have the technology readily available to be able to verify an ID, match it with a face, do a biometric scan. I mean, they're already doing it. And then delete that information immediately once they're age verified, right? And so ID verified, age verified.
And that also takes care of some of the consent issue because if you're presenting an ID, if you're ID and you're going through that process of putting your face on the camera and doing a biometric scan where you're matching your ID, right?
The people who upload and every single individual. This is not a novel idea. We've had a law called USC 2257 in the United States since 1988.
And that is because we understood, anybody with common sense, anybody with half a brain understands that if you don't verify the age of those who are in the videos, the industry will be awash with videos of criminal content, of children, of teens, of underage teens.
And this is also, so we've had this since 1988, USC 2257, and the traditional brick and mortar porn industry has complied with this requirement for many. It's a criminal offense enforceable by the Department of Justice not to do this for every single individual in every single studio-produced pornographic video.
For some reason, with the advent of the internet and this idea of user-generated pornography, It has not translated. So what we need to do is take that law and apply it now to this digital age.
They're just not being enforced. They're not being enforced because the incentive of these companies is to not want to put any restrictions on, they don't want friction in uploading because they're going to get less content. Less content means less Google searches.
Well, yes, but they're heavily resistant, and that's why it has to be government legislation that requires that.
I mean, it's been challenging, for sure. Yeah, I bet. It's been challenging. Yeah, it's been difficult for myself and my family. So why do you do it? It's pain that has a purpose. It's pain and discomfort and all of those things in the midst of seeing progress that makes it totally... Worth it.
Sex trafficking. Sex trafficking.
Yeah, so, yeah, it was... let's see in 2006 i was influenced by my father so you're 26 at that point about 25 26 is that right do the math in 41 yeah that's 15 so i was at a time when i was kind of searching for my vocation um my dad was a huge influence on me just from a very young age i mean he was a man that um He was just so attuned to suffering. He cared about... What did your dad do?
He was a vascular and general surgeon. So he grew up in Jordan and Amman, and he... came to the United States. He went to England, India, and then here, and he became a surgeon. But, you know, he was not the kind of man that would watch entertainment. Like, you just don't see that with my father. He was watching the History Channel. He was watching the news.
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