Laila Mickelwait
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Apr 2025
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There was no risk whatsoever.
The scary thing is that because of the scale of these sites and because they're not the dark web, right? These are the mainstream sites and these are people... Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. those videos on their devices all over the world and re-upload them again and again. A rape that might be uploaded. So yes, that initial upload happened from that perpetrator. But then...
Millions of people a day would have the opportunity to then download it and then they are the re-uploader. So they then redistribute it again and again.
I asked that question exactly right. They want it because to them, it didn't really matter what was in the video as long as it was inventory.
Just as long as it has different tags, as long as it has a different title, it's more content. And so it was incentivizing people. They wanted people to do compilations. They wanted people to download and re-upload.
Exactly. That is exactly why they had a download button. But at the same time, understanding that they had a site that was infested with videos of real sexual crime.
I think that they had an arrogance. Yeah.
No, they had a I mean, they have a chief legal officer who was there from 10 years ago who's still there today.
There was an arrogance to all that was going on. I think that they thought they were just too popular, maybe too big. That's a question that I sometimes wonder. What were you thinking? You would never get caught?
This was the plan. It was how can we make as much money as we can as fast as we can. This was the business model that they set up to the point where in the discovery process with the litigation now, we've even discovered more than what's in my book. So we recently found out things like the executives had emails and documents that they were sharing with each other.
So it would be recommended we need to suppress on our red words list words like childhood, minor, And they wouldn't. And that they were tracking to the dollar how much money they were making every month on categories and titles that contained child sexual abuse material, like the teen categories, because those were some of the most popular categories on the site.
They knew.
They knew to the dollar. They were tracking how much money they were getting on these various categories. Now, obviously, all of the videos in those categories would not be illegal, right? In a teen or a very young or young age. old, young, small tits, things like this, it's not all going to be illegal.
A lot of it is 18-year-olds who look underage, but a lot of it was actual teens that were in these videos and tweens.
Yeah, I think that I have just been so immersed in all of this that it just doesn't really, I don't want to say it's like that I'm detached or that it's like a critical thing.
But see, this is the thing is that maybe at first it was uncomfortable for me to talk about it, but I forced myself because the thing is that I think people have to hear it. I don't want to talk in vague terms too much. And I was really trying to balance because I undershared. You may feel like this is so graphic and descriptive.
Yeah, I just got a Ukrainian translation book. offer. So we'll see how that goes. But I thought that it was important not to be vague, to be specific, because I think that a lot of people want to just disregard this as you're just oversensitive about this is really consensual content. You just don't understand. You don't know consensual.
Yeah, I would just say that, you know, one instance like the 15-year-old girl from Florida who's missing for a year and found in 58 videos on the site, that would be too much. But we know that the site was actually infested with videos of real sexual crime. That would be the spectrum of abuse. And this is not exaggerated.
Like most of the content on the site was legal and consensual, but too much of it was illegal. And that they were profiting from all of it and it was knowing. And so I guess that's just whataboutism too, because a lot of people say, what about this site? And what about that site? And say, okay, well, let's hold them accountable too. I'm focusing on this one predator.
We don't do that with individuals. Like when we see Harvey Weinstein, Jeffrey Epstein, we don't say, we're not going to hold Jeffrey Epstein accountable because Harvey Weinstein was doing it too. Or Bill Cosby was also raping
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