A Pornhub Chatbot Stopped Millions From Searching for Child Abuse Videos

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MindGeek doesn’t regulate the types of videos being uploaded and often allows content that is illegal or stolen.To upload a video, you don’t need an ID or background check—just provide an email address and you’re in. The chatbot was designed and created by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a nonprofit which removes CSAM from the web, and the Lucy Faithfull Foundation, a charity which works to precent child sexual abuse. It appeared alongside the warning messages a total of 2.8 million times. The trial counted the number of sessions on Pornhub, which could mean people are counted multiple times, and it did not look to identify individuals. The report says there was a “meaningful decrease” in searches for CSAM on Pornhub and that at least “in part” the chatbot and warning messages appear to have played a role.

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• Pornhub, RedTube, YouPorn, PornMD, PornIQ, GayTube, Tube8, XTube, Brazzers, Reality Kings, are just A FEW of the long list of sites MindGeek controls.
• District Court in San Diego alleges sex trafficking, human trafficking, racketeering and conspiracy to commit racketeering.
• One major issue with Pornhub, Kristoff says, is the ability for users to download videos.
• It names as defendants Aylo Media S.A.R.L., a Luxembourg-incorporated company that owns PornHub and other popular free porn video sites, and several related companies.
• Five years after he fled the country and minutes before his former right-hand man was sentenced in federal court, authorities announced that the alleged mastermind behind the GirlsDoPorn sex-trafficking ring had touched down in San Diego in federal custody.

This unique program gives you access to incredible in-depth teachings, frequently updated hot topic videos, and a community of supportive like-minded men around the world. Finally, the porn industry and its agents, in this case porn websites, are being seen and exposed as the predators they are. And they must be held accountable, stopped from profiting off the exploitation of the vulnerable, who are often underage teens. Sunday evening, Pornhub scrubbed millions of videos, an estimated 60% of their content, from their platform.

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And because it seems Pornhub will only consider removing videos when they are flagged, there are most likely traffickers earning money right now on the site. In our pornified culture, pornography disrupts how men interact with women. By better understanding the biological realities of our sexual development, we can cultivate healthier sexual perspectives and interpersonal relationships. This dynamic of you against the mob is what makes porn exploitation different from all other forms of sexual exploitation. Rose Kalemba was 14 when she was brutally raped by two men for 12 hours while a 3rd man filmed the incident. A few months later as she was scrolling online she found herself tagged in a link.

The charge stemmed from Aylo’s role in hosting videos and accepting payments from GirlsDoPorn. “It is our hope that this resolution, which includes certain agreed payments to the women whose images were posted on the company’s platforms and an independent monitorship brings some measure of closure to those negatively affected,” Peace said in the statement. Those who spoke at Garcia’s sentencing told harrowing stories of assault, coercion and brutality during the hours-long shoots, when many wept, bled, vomited, cried out in pain or begged for the filming to stop — scenes that were carefully edited from the final video. Many said they were pressured into performing sex acts they’d previously refused to do. Some said they were told they would not be allowed to leave, or their flights home would be canceled, if they did not complete filming.

Our international work involves uprooting the underlying causes in our culture that allow the industry of sexual exploitation to thrive and helping those who have been sexually exploited. The rise of short porn videos that can be uploaded to websites has only escalated the number of crimes being used as masturbatory fuel on sites like Pornhub. These shoots where crimes are perpetrated against teenage girls don’t happen in the light of day on public sets.

A court document filed Friday noted that a settlement agreement had been reached and dismissed the claims. Prosecutors allege Pratt and those who worked for him recruited young women for modeling gigs, but when the women arrived in San Diego, they were pressured to have sex on camera and falsely told the videos would go to private DVD collections overseas. And regardless of your personal opinion about porn, their activities have become criminal and they must be held accountable. To put it plainly, as long as they continue to operate, the world is a more dangerous place for women, teenagers, and children. MindGeek describes themselves as “leaders in design, development, marketing, SEO, and management of highly trafficked websites.” A visit to their website would appear as if you’re visiting a successful technology-based company with a global footprint. No reason why this can’t be similarly enforced for porn sites that skirt the age verification rules.

As a part of the conspiracy, Garcia and others would at times coerce victims into completing the videos once they were underway. Garcia and other co-conspirators threatened to sue the victims, cancel flights home, and post the videos online, if the victims did not complete the sex videos. Hotel room doors were at times blocked by camera and recording equipment, and the victims felt powerless and unable to leave.

The plaintiffs allege MindGeek owns and operates a multitude of pornographic sites that have hosted videos featuring the women, and that it maintained its business relationship with GirlsDoPorn even as the site came under scrutiny for allegations of videos made through coercion and fraud. In total, the lawsuit is demanding more than $40 million in damages—at least $1 million per plaintiff—as well as the money MindGeek earned from hosting and promoting their videos and legal fees, Vice reports. The survivors claim that Montreal-based MindGeek—the company that owns and operates over 60 porn sites, much of what people generally understand to be the mainstream porn industry—failed to moderate and remove videos from its sites featuring the women being sex trafficked. “This defendant lured one victim after another with fake modeling ads, false promises and deceptive front companies, ultimately devolving to threats to coerce these women into making sex videos,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Randy Grossman. “Even when victims told Garcia how the scheme had devastated their lives, he showed no regard for their well-being. The crime was utterly callous in nature and there is no excuse or justification for his conduct, which was driven purely by greed.

Several of the women alleged they were lured to San Diego with online advertisements that made no mention of nudity or pornography, much less the GirlsDoPorn business name. The videos were heavily monetized and globally distributed on Pornhub, the world’s largest and most popular porn site. Pornhub consistently ranks in the top 10 most visited among all the websites in the world, drawing more visitors in April than Instagram, CNN and Walmart. Besides Pornhub, the GirlsDoPorn videos were also hosted on other MindGeek properties referred to as “Tubesites” in the lawsuit. Jane Doe’s video remained “on MindGeek’s Tubesites until after GirlsDoPorn’s principals were arrested in October 2019 when MindGeek finally decided to take action,” the complaint said. On July 7, the women and MindGeek filed a joint motion to suspend proceedings for 30 days so they could discuss a “possible resolution of this action (including potential mediation or other alternative dispute resolution.” The court granted the motion.