In February 2020, Laila Mickelwait, Exodus Cryโs Director of Abolition at the time, published an op-ed titled, โTime to Shut Pornhub Down,โ bringing attention to the fact that Pornhub was hosting child pornography and videos of trafficking victims on the site. This sparked a petition and accompanying campaign, Traffickinghub. Then, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Nicholas Kristof, published a scathing exposรฉ in theย New York Times, titled, โThe Children of Pornhub,โ leading the company to leap to action, deleting 80% of their content overnight โ about 10 million videos. Visa, Mastercard, and Discover cut ties with the site. In 2021, Canadian parliament began to investigate the Canadian-based company that owns Pornhub, MindGeek and a number of lawsuits were filed against the company on behalf of survivors. NCOSE โ the National Centre on Sexual Exploitation โ filed several of these lawsuits, representing victims seeking justice against MindGeek. NCOSE was featured in a documentary released on Netflix last money, purporting to address the scandal, called Money Shot.
I spoke to Haley McNamara, Director of the International Centre on Sexual Exploitation in the UK and a Vice President at the U.S. based National Center on Sexual Exploitation, about the situation at Pornhub, the Netflix documentary, and NCOSEโs efforts to stop exploitation in porn.
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