Laila Mickelwait
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Apr 2025
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Just under everybody's noses, millions of people a day. A phrase my dad always used to say, he was just a very wise man, and he always used to say, assumption is the mother of all screw-ups. And thinking about that, the idea that we're all assuming that this is legal, vetted, consensual material, because that was their tagline. That was what they presented to the world.
And they spent millions of dollars on their PR campaigns to save the oceans. And they had this whole arm of Pornhub called Pornhub Cares.
Save the bees and all this stuff. And so I said, well, let me just test the upload system. I put the baby down after he went back to sleep, got the camera out, took the video of the keyboard and the rug and then uploaded and found out what millions of the point of hidden in plain sight.
Millions of people already knew because they were uploading to Pornhub every day that there was no requirement for ID or consent form. Anybody anonymously with a VPN and under 10 minutes using an email address, just a random email address could upload a sex video to Pornhub. And there you go. That's how the site became infested with videos of real sexual crime.
They didn't even necessarily need to know that there was going to be money or not. They could have deceived, defrauded, coerced, and we're talking about adults, because when they're under 18, it just doesn't matter what happened. If they have a video on the site.
Now, the monetization piece, I think, is really important when we're talking about the definition of trafficking, because a lot of people don't realize that what constitutes trafficking is that commercialization. When something of value is exchanged for the coerced sex act or the underage sex.
Now, with regard to the websites, we call it tech-facilitated trafficking because this might be free porn. 80% of the content on Pornhub was free, but it was heavily monetized. So the ones that were benefiting from it are the executives of Pornhub who are selling 4.6 billion ad impressions on Pornhub every single day.
I thought you were going to say per year or something. Per day.
Exactly. That was how they were making most of their money on free porn. So free porn is not free. Yes, it's heavily monetized. It has a high human cost, clearly. But 20% of that would be pay-to-download content where you could enter into this profit-sharing relationship with Pornhub where you could put the content behind a paywall. You have to pay to download that content.
And in one horrific case, there was a 12-year-old boy from Alabama and he was drugged and he was overpowered and he was raped by a man named Rocky Shea Franklin who had one of those profit-sharing pay-to-download relationships with Pornhub. And he filmed the assaults and he uploaded 23 of those videos to Pornhub. with titles indicating that they were abused.
And this is important when we talk about complicity, because Pornhub in its defense made a huge mistake.
They had 10 people working per eight-hour shift, but they do say, we had somebody viewing, manually proving every single video before it went live on the site. That's not true. But if it was true... That means that they were approving videos with a 12-year-old drug boy with titles such as Uncle Secret, Young Ass is Best, things that would clearly say this is a child.
And then once it was discovered, he was a verified uploader in this pay-to-download relationship. And then police found out they reached out multiple times to Pornhub demanding the videos come down. They were ignored multiple times. It stayed up for seven months, getting hundreds of thousands of views.
All monetized. So he was arrested and now he's sentenced to 40 years in prison and the boy is suing Pornhub.
Oh, this poor kid. Well, originally he stood with his mom, and then he became old enough to just do it on his own.
When they say, we viewed and approved, that means that complicity— was even deeper if they're trying to say that. Why would they say that?
We know it wasn't true because moderators through the course of this came forward to me and to investigators and to the attorneys and all of that and produced documents and schedules showing that they had 10 or under moderators per shift working not only on Pornhub because Pornhub was owned by a parent company. MindGeek. MindGeek, who had...
earned virtually a monopoly on the mainstream, most popular global porn sites and industry.
So with a $362 million loan from Colbeck Capital, the previous owner of Pornhub rolled up the industry buying most of the most popular porn sites and brands and pay sites and tube sites. Pornhub was the flagship site. So it had Pornhub in its sister site. So it would be YouPorn, TubeAid, GayTube, Extreme Tomb, on and on.
And these moderators were not just moderating the millions of videos on Pornhub. They were in charge of all... the porn tube site.
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