Laila Mickelwait
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585 appearances
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3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard Apr 2025
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gross and creepy it was shocking to read that and they were calling out particular advertisers in this investigation London Sunday Times they called them out for that immediately they were shamed they apologized they pulled the ads But it was a big deal, at least in the anti-trafficking space. We were paying attention to what was happening.
And there was a woman named Nicole Adamando from New York. She had been abused by her partner. He had filmed the abuse and he was uploading the videos to Pornhub and she killed him. Oh, my God. She ended up getting sentenced to life in prison. At the time, she had a legal team and they were able to reduce her sentence to seven years.
It was a very dramatic case. And the pictures of her, she had two young children and her being taken off to prison. It was just a horrific story. And then there was about 100 victims in California and San Diego that were part of this trafficking operation called Girls Do Porn. It was run by a guy named Michael Pratt. who ended up on the FBI's 10 most wanted list. I saw that.
So he was found two Christmas Eves ago in Spain. He had become a fugitive because he was wanted.
Yeah, he was finally found, and all his co-conspirators are in prison already, and now he's in the process of finally being held accountable. But he was running a partner channel on Pornhub that was one of their most popular partner channels on the site.
No.
So the victim sued him, the FBI, the criminal accountability for girls do porn. But the way that they had distributed their content and made it very popular was through Pornhub. So they had one of the most popular partner channels. I think it was over 600 million views and 800,000 subscribers online. And they're each paying like five bucks a month or whatever?
Well, so you subscribe to the channel and then they give you clips and they advertise and then they drive you to pay for more content.
Yes. And they were splitting again. This is a profit sharing relationship with Pornhub and they were splitting the profits. And Pornhub was aware because victims were reaching out and begging them to take these videos down because it was destroying their life.
Oh, they were trafficked. And so there's no question. And that's part of the definition, of course, of trafficking is force, fraud, coercion. If you're under the age of 18 and you're using a commercial sex act. So if you're making money on that sex act that was induced by force or fraud or coercion, or if anybody's under the age of 18, you don't even need to prove any of that.
It's just automatically trafficking. So anyway, they were held accountable. But this was in the news at the time as well. And so all of this began to raise the question, how in the world was this happening on Pornhub? Because at the time, Pornhub was a cultural icon. It was all over the place.
Exactly.
Walking New York Fashion Week. People are wearing their apparel. Jokes on Saturday Night Live, like faux commercials on Saturday Night Live. All of that. Mainstream brand. Not to mention that at the time, so by the end of 2020, they had capitalized on coronavirus. And they had actually become the fifth most visited website across the entire internet.
They made traffic soar. They had also done some crazy PR stunts. Like they offered Pornhub Premium for free to the entire world. So that instead of paying $9.99 for ad-free Pornhub, so you could watch porn or you could watch real rape or child abuse ad-free on Pornhub. They were just giving it for free. So their traffic was better than ever. They were making more money than ever.
They had more visits than Netflix and Amazon. They had 170 million visits a day, 62 billion visits a year that year. Jeez. And by the end of 2020, they had 56 million pieces of content on the site. So every year they were having enough content uploaded. It would take 169 years to watch if you put those videos back to back. Oh, my God.
Oh, in the case of Pornhub, we know they knew. We know. We have evidence. We have conversations. We have email exchanges. We have documents. We have policies. We have so much evidence. that this was something they knew about. They hid from authorities because of profit, because they wanted to maximize profit. They allowed to continue for years since 2007.
And so 100% responsibility because they have the ability to stop it. They had the ability in 2007 to to age verify, to make sure that somebody had to show an ID, to show their face, to consent verify before they could upload, and they chose not to.
There are some where it's obvious, right, that this is nonconsensual, this could be prepubescent, and you could see that, right? Or there's violence or tags, titles indicating young or pain, things like that. However, sometimes these are videos that were consensually recorded and then nonconsensually uploaded. So then in that case, you have no idea, right?
whether they consented to having that video on Pornhub. And victims of this kind of, they call it image-based sexual abuse, that's all the way from child abuse to what we used to call revenge porn. And they face serious amounts of trauma as well. The suicide ideation rate for these victims is about 50%. And so the harm is from the revenge porn side all the way to the child sexual.
It's all serious. And when you're on a site that doesn't verify agent consent, not only of the uploader, but every single video and every single person, every single video, you have to be suspect of everything that you're watching.
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