Porn is a wild business. Indeed, the industry satisfies the deep evolutionary needs of humans (predominantly men), but it is doing so with criminal approaches. Activist Leila Mickelwait (@LeilaMickelwait) has been taking action against PornHub and its operator MindGeek for years for facilitating rape, child abuse, and sex trafficking. Her petition to shut down PornHub and hold Its executives accountable for facilitating sex trafficking already has more than 2.3 million supporters.
Pornhub is generating millions in advertising and membership revenue with 42 billion visits and 6 million videos uploaded yearly. But the porn platform has no system to reliably verify the age or consent of those featured in the pornographic content it hosts and profits from.
Recently the Internet Watch Foundation stated that it had confirmed 118 cases of child rape, sexual abuse, and trafficking on Pornhub—half of the videos were Category A-level abuse, which is the worst.
Leila rightfully claims that Pornhub is complicit in the trafficking of these women and minors and probably thousands more like them. She argues that the controlling officers of MindGeed, the operating entity behind PornHub, should be wanted by law enforcement. Among them are CEO Feras Antoon and COO David Tassillo.
