Laila Mickelwait
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And this was a guessing game. They were playing Russian roulette with real people's lives, with victims' lives. And that wasn't just for Pornhub. So that was all of the PornTube sites. They had 10. moderating. Compare that to Facebook's 15,000. They still don't have enough moderators even at Facebook. But make that comparison. That was an intentional decision.
And those moderators, I spoke to them for dozens of hours. I consider some of them friends at this point because we've spent so much time together discussing how this worked. And they said that their job was more to allow as much content to go through as possible. So Content is king for the porn tube sites.
And those moderators, I spoke to them for dozens of hours. I consider some of them friends at this point because we've spent so much time together discussing how this worked. And they said that their job was more to allow as much content to go through as possible. So Content is king for the porn tube sites.
And those moderators, I spoke to them for dozens of hours. I consider some of them friends at this point because we've spent so much time together discussing how this worked. And they said that their job was more to allow as much content to go through as possible. So Content is king for the porn tube sites.
They have to have massive amounts of content in order to drive those Google searches, in order to drive the traffic and sell the advertising.
They have to have massive amounts of content in order to drive those Google searches, in order to drive the traffic and sell the advertising.
They have to have massive amounts of content in order to drive those Google searches, in order to drive the traffic and sell the advertising.
Well, it's the advertising. So mostly, you know, they're making money off of premium subscriptions so that you could buy, you know, so you can pay $9.99 or $19.99 a month and you can watch porn or you can watch the real rape ad-free. They were selling pay-to-download content, which was a small portion of the content on Pornhub.
Well, it's the advertising. So mostly, you know, they're making money off of premium subscriptions so that you could buy, you know, so you can pay $9.99 or $19.99 a month and you can watch porn or you can watch the real rape ad-free. They were selling pay-to-download content, which was a small portion of the content on Pornhub.
Well, it's the advertising. So mostly, you know, they're making money off of premium subscriptions so that you could buy, you know, so you can pay $9.99 or $19.99 a month and you can watch porn or you can watch the real rape ad-free. They were selling pay-to-download content, which was a small portion of the content on Pornhub.
But there's many examples of victims even in that pay-to-download content. There was a 12-year-old boy in Alabama, and he was drugged, and he was overpowered, and he was raped in 23 videos by a man named Rocky Shea Franklin. and that was pay to download content where he entered into a profit-sharing relationship with Pornhub to split that 35%, 65% for Rocky, 35% for Pornhub.
But there's many examples of victims even in that pay-to-download content. There was a 12-year-old boy in Alabama, and he was drugged, and he was overpowered, and he was raped in 23 videos by a man named Rocky Shea Franklin. and that was pay to download content where he entered into a profit-sharing relationship with Pornhub to split that 35%, 65% for Rocky, 35% for Pornhub.
But there's many examples of victims even in that pay-to-download content. There was a 12-year-old boy in Alabama, and he was drugged, and he was overpowered, and he was raped in 23 videos by a man named Rocky Shea Franklin. and that was pay to download content where he entered into a profit-sharing relationship with Pornhub to split that 35%, 65% for Rocky, 35% for Pornhub.
They were selling those videos Police reached out multiple times to Pornhub demanding those videos be removed, and they were ignored. They stayed on the site for seven months, hundreds of thousands of views. They put an intentional download button on every single piece of content on Pornhub. Again, an intentional policy decision to place that.
They were selling those videos Police reached out multiple times to Pornhub demanding those videos be removed, and they were ignored. They stayed on the site for seven months, hundreds of thousands of views. They put an intentional download button on every single piece of content on Pornhub. Again, an intentional policy decision to place that.
They were selling those videos Police reached out multiple times to Pornhub demanding those videos be removed, and they were ignored. They stayed on the site for seven months, hundreds of thousands of views. They put an intentional download button on every single piece of content on Pornhub. Again, an intentional policy decision to place that.
And that's not like a YouTube download where you can just access it when you're off of the internet. This was a possession of that content. It was a transfer from 1,700 servers that Pornhub has. a transfer of that illegal criminal content onto the devices of potentially 5 million users an hour so that that child's trauma could then be immortalized.
And that's not like a YouTube download where you can just access it when you're off of the internet. This was a possession of that content. It was a transfer from 1,700 servers that Pornhub has. a transfer of that illegal criminal content onto the devices of potentially 5 million users an hour so that that child's trauma could then be immortalized.
And that's not like a YouTube download where you can just access it when you're off of the internet. This was a possession of that content. It was a transfer from 1,700 servers that Pornhub has. a transfer of that illegal criminal content onto the devices of potentially 5 million users an hour so that that child's trauma could then be immortalized.
And these victims, they call it the immortalization of their trauma, where they say, you know, it was one thing when I was raped, but to have that filmed and then uploaded, monetized for profit and pleasure and globally distributed so that it will be downloaded and uploaded for the rest of my life.