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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.

read more: https://www.404media.co/girls-do-porn-victims-sue-pornhub-for-300-million/

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[-] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

Honestly I'm running into that a lot with women, especially younger women. They all want to be "dominated" and it does nothing for me.

[-] PM_ME_FEET_PICS@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 year ago

Consensual non-consent is also surprisingly common with younger women as well. Makes me very uncomfortable.

[-] Default_Defect@midwest.social 13 points 1 year ago

Under no circumstances would I be comfortable if someone wanted me to simulate rape or being overly dominant.

Its at best not what I'm into and at worst a way to catch a court date if the other person is an especially shit human, never mind how it throws clear communication straight out of the window.

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 23 points 1 year ago

No I've done it. Done properly it's with full communication, clear limits, safe words and usually pre-setup and post aftercare which has been very cathartic and important time for my partners.

It's totally fine if it's not something you are into but done properly it's not something that is outside of communicated carefully and shouldn't be causing court issues cause it's definitely not something to just do without precise communication.

I get that isn't always reality but I just don't want people to think it's something that's inherently only harmful.

[-] Default_Defect@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago

Being done properly and with clear communication would fall under my "at best" scenario with it just not being my thing, but your comment is important. I never meant to make it sound like BDSM is inherently "dangerous" or whatever.

[-] Krauerking@lemy.lol 3 points 1 year ago

It's fine, yeah I just saw the upvotes and the "no clear communication" thing and knew a partner who would want to write notes afterwards and had a full document of pre agreements and could feel her spirit telling me to not let that go unchallenged

[-] Default_Defect@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago

Oh yes, I know someone that would have been the same way. She was adamant about clear expectations and establishing boundaries.

[-] Enigma@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Right. The BDSM world has very strict rules. If you’re ever with a partner who “wants to try bdsm” without multiple conversations beforehand, then walk away. Aftercare is also a huge and important part of BDSM.

[-] phx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Been there, uh, didn't do that because it's fucking creepy. Also no hitting or calling me "daddy", which is super creepy IMO

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