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.
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Masturbating to a woman being sexually abused is not comparable with eating something unethically sourced. I'm not gaining gratification from witnessing the workers being abused. When you masturbate to a woman being sexually abused you are directly getting sexual gratification from watching someone being sexual abused. I don't know what to tell you if you cannot understand how that is different from eating an unethically sourced food.
You're literally gaining gratification from the abuse of people. Don't deny it. We all fucking are. Make allies, and fight it.
It doesn't matter that you witness it or not. What most people witness when. They watch porn is something they assume is above the table. There are laws that say you can't rape and you can't film certain things. It's a pretty reasonable assumption that most pornography you're going to find would follow those laws, otherwise it'd be taken down.
A critical look at the situation reveals this isnt the case. Porn is going to be produced to look as legit as possible. That deception keeps a lot of people from realizing the shit they're watching is actually horrible. Why place the blame for the action on the person that was deceived, rather than the one doing the deceiving?
To tie it all back together, consumption as we know it today quite literally cannot be ethical. Everything we consume is brought about by abuse, either of people, or of the planet. I don't see the point in making it the person lowest on the totem pole of suffering who should bear that sin. It's on the people at the top, and we need to figure out how to set OUR differences aside and target the ones actually doing.
So then, in your view, masturbating to a woman being raped accidentally is an acceptable consequence of watching pornography?
Acceptable isn't the word id use. I think every reasonable person would prefer if it never happened. But unless you want to make the argument of "all porn inherently bad" then I think it's as much a reality as killing kids for your cellphone is.
Frankly I don't want to engage with that argument, it's a bit outside of the nuance level I think the Internet is capable of. But if that's your position, at least you're internally consistent on that one thing.
I don't watch porn, as masturbating to someone being sexually abused is not an acceptable consequence of watching porn to me.
But children dying so you can shit post on notreddit is an acceptable outcome? Got it.
So I can access society, yeah. But im not masturbating to women being raped. Which yes I see as entirely different and as unjustifiable.
Don't gotta own a cellphone to access society. Libraries exist, they have all the resources you need. If you really "need" a cellphone I expect it to be the cheapest, oldest model that still works. Otherwise it's unnecessary and you're killing kids for your convenience.