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Laila Mickelwait

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1568 total appearances

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The Jordan Harbinger Show
1143: Laila Mickelwait | Exposing Pornhub's Dark Trafficking Empire

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.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1143: Laila Mickelwait | Exposing Pornhub's Dark Trafficking Empire

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.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1143: Laila Mickelwait | Exposing Pornhub's Dark Trafficking Empire

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.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1143: Laila Mickelwait | Exposing Pornhub's Dark Trafficking Empire

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.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1143: Laila Mickelwait | Exposing Pornhub's Dark Trafficking Empire

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.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1143: Laila Mickelwait | Exposing Pornhub's Dark Trafficking Empire

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.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1143: Laila Mickelwait | Exposing Pornhub's Dark Trafficking Empire

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.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1143: Laila Mickelwait | Exposing Pornhub's Dark Trafficking Empire

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.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1143: Laila Mickelwait | Exposing Pornhub's Dark Trafficking Empire

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.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1143: Laila Mickelwait | Exposing Pornhub's Dark Trafficking Empire

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.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1143: Laila Mickelwait | Exposing Pornhub's Dark Trafficking Empire

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.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1143: Laila Mickelwait | Exposing Pornhub's Dark Trafficking Empire

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.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1143: Laila Mickelwait | Exposing Pornhub's Dark Trafficking Empire

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.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1143: Laila Mickelwait | Exposing Pornhub's Dark Trafficking Empire

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.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1143: Laila Mickelwait | Exposing Pornhub's Dark Trafficking Empire

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.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1143: Laila Mickelwait | Exposing Pornhub's Dark Trafficking Empire

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.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1143: Laila Mickelwait | Exposing Pornhub's Dark Trafficking Empire

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.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1143: Laila Mickelwait | Exposing Pornhub's Dark Trafficking Empire

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.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1143: Laila Mickelwait | Exposing Pornhub's Dark Trafficking Empire

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.

The Jordan Harbinger Show
1143: Laila Mickelwait | Exposing Pornhub's Dark Trafficking Empire

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.