Laila Mickelwait's Fight to Shut Down Pornhub, Pt. 1

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🗓️ 14 August 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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0:00.0	This might be the biggest scandal you haven't heard about.
0:05.0	The largest porn website.
0:06.0	Attracting 130 million users a day more than Netflix or Amazon.
0:12.0	Born Hub is under investigation.
0:15.0	This is a company that did whatever it wanted until one woman and a laptop exposed the truth.
0:20.0	She is the founder of the Justice Defense Fund. one of the pioneers in anti-trafficking.
0:24.6	Lila McAway.
0:25.6	Lila, Michaelway.
0:26.6	Thank you for having me.
0:27.6	I was reading the story of a missing 15-year-old girl who was found when somebody tipped off her mother,
0:33.6	that she was in 58 videos on Pornhub being raped and abused the Sunday Times.
0:40.3	Did an investigation.
0:41.3	They found dozens of illegal videos, even children as young as three years old.
0:46.3	How was this happening?
0:48.3	I decided to test this upload system.
0:51.3	In under 10 minutes, with only an email address, I was able to upload content
0:55.1	that went live on the site. They weren't asking for an ID. They weren't asking for a consent
1:00.0	form to make sure that this wasn't a rape or trafficking victim. The site became infested with
1:05.9	videos of real sexual crime. I have to sound the alarm on this.
1:12.6	I was posting on Twitter, started a petition.
1:15.4	We're just about to hit one million.
1:16.8	Two million signatures.
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