Visa and Mastercard suspend payments from ads appearing on major porn site
The decision came amid a lawsuit against Visa for allegedly assisting in the distribution of child pornography.
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Articles tagged Mindgeek
Conservative MP: Canadian gov’t. must ‘act’ against Canada-based porn website
Last week, a report said the Ethics Committee recommended that Pornhub be held liable for not preventing explicit material of child sex abuse from being uploaded to its platform.
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Amazon, Netflix, Twitter, school library resource EBSCO named on ‘dirty dozen’ list of companies aiding sexual exploitation
This year’s list features several entities that have profited from the COVID-19 crisis by taking advantage of worsening social and economic vulnerabilities and harnessing the dramatic increase in online activity.
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Pornhub exec claims site that hosted underage rape videos is ‘the safest adult platform in the world’
Feras Antoon, an executive of MindGeek, Pornhub's parent company said that he is 'very proud that we built a product that gets 170 million people a day'
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40 sex-abuse survivors launch $40M lawsuit against Pornhub for profiting from illegal vids
'Victims and survivors deserve justice, and Pornhub and MindGeek (Pornhub’s parent company) must be held accountable—both financially and legally—for the full scope and magnitude of its crimes'
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‘Shut it down!’: protesters rally against Pornhub in wake of illegal child rape vids
Pornhub has been caught hosting illegal videos of child sexual abuse.
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Protesters to descend on Pornhub’s world HQ in wake of illegal child rape vids
The demonstrators are calling for Pornhub to be closed down based on 'corroborated evidence that the company is aiding and profiting off of the sex trafficking and sexual exploitation of women and children.'
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Petition to ‘Shut Down Pornhub’ goes viral
Petition asks authorities to shut down Pornhub after showing videos of 15-year-old trafficking victim.
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Pornhub caught hosting illegal vids of 15-year-old victim of human trafficking, rape
The world’s leading online porn site said it had ‘verified’ as a “model with valid ID” the girl who turned out to be a trafficked minor.
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