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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

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

I thought you were going to say per year or something. Per day.

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

I thought you were going to say per year or something. Per day.

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

I thought you were going to say per year or something. Per day.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

And this is important when we talk about complicity, because Pornhub in its defense made a huge mistake.

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

And this is important when we talk about complicity, because Pornhub in its defense made a huge mistake.

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

And this is important when we talk about complicity, because Pornhub in its defense made a huge mistake.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

All monetized. So he was arrested and now he's sentenced to 40 years in prison and the boy is suing Pornhub.