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A lawsuit filed by more victims of the sex trafficking operation claims that Pornhub’s moderation staff ignored reports of their abuse videos.


Sixty-one additional women are suing Pornhub’s parent company, claiming that the company failed to take down videos of their abuse as part of the sex trafficking operation Girls Do Porn. They’re suing the company and its sites for sex trafficking, racketeering, conspiracy to commit racketeering, and human trafficking.

The complaint, filed on Tuesday, includes what it claims are internal emails obtained by the plaintiffs, represented by Holm Law Group, between Pornhub moderation staff. The emails allegedly show that Pornhub had only one moderator to review 700,000 potentially abusive videos, and that the company intentionally ignored repeated reports from victims in those videos.

The damages and restitution they seek amounts to more than $311,100,000. They demand a jury trial, and seek damages of $5 million per plaintiff, as well as restitution for all the money Aylo, the new name for Pornhub’s parent company, earned “marketing, selling and exploiting Plaintiffs’ videos in an amount that exceeds one hundred thousand dollars for each plaintiff.”

The plaintiffs are 61 more unnamed “Jane Doe” victims of Girls Do Porn, adding to the 60 that sued Pornhub in 2020 for similar claims.
Girls Do Porn was a federally-convicted sex trafficking ring that coerced young women into filming pornographic videos under the pretense of “modeling” gigs. In some cases, the women were violently abused. The operators told them that the videos would never appear online, so that their home communities wouldn’t find out, but they uploaded the footage to sites like Pornhub, where the videos went viral—and in many instances, destroyed their lives. Girls Do Porn was an official Pornhub content partner, with its videos frequently appearing on the front page, where they gathered millions of views.

read more: https://www.404media.co/girls-do-porn-victims-sue-pornhub-for-300-million/

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep, we're turning in circles. You're justifying your consumption of blood goods "because you need it" and "because it's good", and if someone said the same about porn, you'd say they're evil. Yet somehow, you don't think that's hypocritical because you were raped.

Your rhetoric and argumentative style is just using fallacies and moral outrage. You know full well that not everybody in porn is being abused on camera or being forced to do it, yet you argue as if all are and that anybody watching it is complicit. That same line of reasoning can be used with your consumption.

Does it bring you pleasure to witness women being raped? Is masturbating to women being sexually abused an acceptable consequence of consuming pornography to you?

Does it bring you pleasure to give money to corps who kill my people? Is consuming products made by the hands of little children a turn on for you? Do you moan in pleasure and exclaim "OMG this is SO FUCKING GOOD" when you imagine another family toiling away, possibly for their whole lives, to makes products that you only half consume and then toss in the trash because you're "full"?


It's terrible that you were raped and you are obviously still dealing with it, so I wish you the best of luck on that path.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Gonna copy paste another comment and then I'm done. Have fun being a misogynist.

S9+. Not that it matters, as again I do not have a phone because I derive pleasure from watching child labor. Watching porn of a woman being sexually abused and getting off to it is getting pleasure from a woman being sexually abused, like you are cumming watching a woman being raped. The rape is the commodity you're consuming. It's the content, it's how you're consuming it and its why you're consuming it. the child labor is not the cell phone. The cell phone exists for reasons beyond child labor. The porn is of a woman being raped. Thats it. Start to end its rape. not all of it, but a portion of it is. And so you have to be okay with that you have to be fine with getting off to rape. If that wasn't fine with you, you would refuse to consume it. Again, nothing in your life is impacted by choosing to get off to something else.

I've been making the same point for the last 2 hours and waiting for you to either acknowledge that you're cool with the chance of you getting off to women being sexually abused.