Laila Mickelwait

It was like intimidation tactics. It's so dumb, though. It's so juvenile. Right? Yeah. I currently have a situation right now, and it's not as nefarious as this, but just an AI thing saying that I'm a porn star using an interview and describing this particular scene that I was in and whatnot. But yeah, all of these things that were happening, they were intimidation, harassment.

It was like intimidation tactics. It's so dumb, though. It's so juvenile. Right? Yeah. I currently have a situation right now, and it's not as nefarious as this, but just an AI thing saying that I'm a porn star using an interview and describing this particular scene that I was in and whatnot. But yeah, all of these things that were happening, they were intimidation, harassment.

It was like intimidation tactics. It's so dumb, though. It's so juvenile. Right? Yeah. I currently have a situation right now, and it's not as nefarious as this, but just an AI thing saying that I'm a porn star using an interview and describing this particular scene that I was in and whatnot. But yeah, all of these things that were happening, they were intimidation, harassment.

Some of them I can tie directly back to the company. Some of them are just people who are financially incentivized, who support the company, who don't want to see revenue disturbed or angry that this is happening.

Some of them I can tie directly back to the company. Some of them are just people who are financially incentivized, who support the company, who don't want to see revenue disturbed or angry that this is happening.

Some of them I can tie directly back to the company. Some of them are just people who are financially incentivized, who support the company, who don't want to see revenue disturbed or angry that this is happening.

Yeah, random people. doing this kind of thing. Yeah. But that was certainly happening. But I always had this feeling of this may be uncomfortable. This may be painful. But when you're going through, it's like when there's purpose to it, it's so much easier to go through. And when you're seeing progress, fine, go for it. We're making progress.

Yeah, random people. doing this kind of thing. Yeah. But that was certainly happening. But I always had this feeling of this may be uncomfortable. This may be painful. But when you're going through, it's like when there's purpose to it, it's so much easier to go through. And when you're seeing progress, fine, go for it. We're making progress.

Yeah, random people. doing this kind of thing. Yeah. But that was certainly happening. But I always had this feeling of this may be uncomfortable. This may be painful. But when you're going through, it's like when there's purpose to it, it's so much easier to go through. And when you're seeing progress, fine, go for it. We're making progress.

That was hard. We argued and I brought the evidence to the VPs of Visa and MasterCard. It wasn't until Nick Kristof released his groundbreaking article called The Children of Pornhub. He ends that article with these words. Pornhub is Jeffrey Epstein times a thousand. And he specifically called out the credit card companies in his article.

That was hard. We argued and I brought the evidence to the VPs of Visa and MasterCard. It wasn't until Nick Kristof released his groundbreaking article called The Children of Pornhub. He ends that article with these words. Pornhub is Jeffrey Epstein times a thousand. And he specifically called out the credit card companies in his article.

That was hard. We argued and I brought the evidence to the VPs of Visa and MasterCard. It wasn't until Nick Kristof released his groundbreaking article called The Children of Pornhub. He ends that article with these words. Pornhub is Jeffrey Epstein times a thousand. And he specifically called out the credit card companies in his article.

Why are you still doing business with a company that distributes rape videos to the world? And at that point, there were thousands of follow on articles to that. And the pressure was on. There was journalists calling Visa and asked, why are you still doing it? Bill Ackman, who is a billionaire hedge fund manager, and he read The Children of Pornhub. He was incensed. He has daughters of his own.

Why are you still doing business with a company that distributes rape videos to the world? And at that point, there were thousands of follow on articles to that. And the pressure was on. There was journalists calling Visa and asked, why are you still doing it? Bill Ackman, who is a billionaire hedge fund manager, and he read The Children of Pornhub. He was incensed. He has daughters of his own.

Why are you still doing business with a company that distributes rape videos to the world? And at that point, there were thousands of follow on articles to that. And the pressure was on. There was journalists calling Visa and asked, why are you still doing it? Bill Ackman, who is a billionaire hedge fund manager, and he read The Children of Pornhub. He was incensed. He has daughters of his own.

And he reached out and I got connected with him and he learned the story. And not only did he just go on Twitter to express his dismay and call out Visa MasterCard, he knew the CEO of MasterCard from the tennis circuit. And he made a phone call. He sent some texts. He said, this is trafficking going on. Are you going to do the right thing?

And he reached out and I got connected with him and he learned the story. And not only did he just go on Twitter to express his dismay and call out Visa MasterCard, he knew the CEO of MasterCard from the tennis circuit. And he made a phone call. He sent some texts. He said, this is trafficking going on. Are you going to do the right thing?

And he reached out and I got connected with him and he learned the story. And not only did he just go on Twitter to express his dismay and call out Visa MasterCard, he knew the CEO of MasterCard from the tennis circuit. And he made a phone call. He sent some texts. He said, this is trafficking going on. Are you going to do the right thing?

And Ajay Banga, who was the CEO of MasterCard at the time, said, I'm on it. And he was on it. And he actually, at that point, cut off the credit card companies and then Visa followed, Discover followed. However, this was the time when they then, in a panic, because this was the worst thing that could happen to Pornhub, they took down 80% of the entire website overnight. It was gone.

And Ajay Banga, who was the CEO of MasterCard at the time, said, I'm on it. And he was on it. And he actually, at that point, cut off the credit card companies and then Visa followed, Discover followed. However, this was the time when they then, in a panic, because this was the worst thing that could happen to Pornhub, they took down 80% of the entire website overnight. It was gone.