By India McCarty
Recently leaked court documents reveal millions of views on videos posted to Pornhub depicting rape or assaults on children.
“What goes through the minds of people working at porn companies profiting from videos of children being raped?” Nicholas Kristof wrote in an op-ed for The New York Times. “Thanks to a filing error in a Federal District Court in Alabama, releasing thousands of pages of internal documents from Pornhub that were meant to be sealed, we now know.”
The accidentally-unsealed documents, mostly from 2020 or earlier, indicate that, as of May 2020, Pornhub had over 700,000 videos on their site that had been “flagged by users for depicting rape or assaults on children.”
Other documents reveal messages from employees at Pornhub, with some making light of the disturbing content on their site.
“I hope I never get in trouble for having those vids on my computer LOOOOL,” one person wrote. Another employee said, “There is A LOT of very, very obvious and disturbing CSAM [child sexual abuse material] here.”
One employee even told another worker not to let their manager know when they found videos of children on the site.
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While internal memos reveal Pornhub did propose banning words like “infant” and “kiddy” from the site, they still recommended hosting videos with words like “brutal,” “childhood,” “force,” “snuffs,” “unwilling,” “minor” and “wasted” in the title or description.
Now, many are calling for the site to be shut down — including Laila Mickelwait, the founder and CEO of the Justice Defense Fund and Founder of the Traffickinghub movement.
“One of the most-searched terms on Pornhub is ‘teen’ pornography,” Mickelwait wrote in an op-ed for the Washington Examiner. “The search will result in videos that are constantly being added faster than any individual could watch them.”
She continued, “What all of this means is that at this very moment, there could be hundreds, if not thousands, of videos of underage sex trafficking victims on Pornhub. If there could be, I can almost guarantee you there are. We already have evidence, and it is just the tip of the iceberg. It’s time to shut down super-predator site Pornhub and hold the executive megapimps behind it accountable.”
The TraffickingHub movement was founded in February 2020 by Mickelwait. The effort was advanced in 2020 in conjunction with Exodus Cry, quickly becoming a global movement of millions of individuals and hundreds of organizations.
“In January 2020, Pornhub was the largest and most popular porn website in the world,” an article on the Exodus Cry website read. “By January 2021, Pornhub had deleted 80% of the site totaling 10 million videos, lost all payment processing (Mastercard, Visa, Discover and PayPal), upended its business model, and is now a global pariah — facing 7 major lawsuits and under investigation by multiple governments for child sexual abuse, sex trafficking, and other illegal activity.”
These recent leaked documents are just another reminder that the people running pornography sites like this don’t care who they’re hurting — as long as they’re still making money.
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