{"id":2026613,"date":"2023-09-09T06:55:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-09T10:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pornhub-had-roadblock-for-reviewing-potential-child-sexual-content-documents-show\/"},"modified":"2023-09-09T06:57:44","modified_gmt":"2023-09-09T10:57:44","slug":"pornhub-had-roadblock-for-reviewing-potential-child-sexual-content-documents-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pornhub-had-roadblock-for-reviewing-potential-child-sexual-content-documents-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Documents reveal that Pornhub faced obstacles in reviewing potential child sexual content."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpornhub-had-roadblock-for-reviewing-potential-child-sexual-content-documents-show%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2026613&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Child Sexual Abuse Videos on Pornhub: A Shocking\u200d Revelation<\/h2>\n<p>Disturbing documents have emerged in a California lawsuit against MindGeek,\u2063 the parent company of popular pornography streaming site Pornhub. These documents \u200breveal that child\u200c sexual abuse videos had to be\u200b reported multiple times before content\u200c moderators would \u2063even consider reviewing them. The implications of this revelation are deeply troubling.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>A Decade of Knowingly Distributing\u2062 Child Sexual Abuse Material<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The lawsuit alleges\u200b that MindGeek has knowingly received and distributed\u200b child sexual abuse \u200bmaterial (CSAM) for over a decade, profiting from \u200bthe heinous crime of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-call-double-standard-on-greenes-committee-removals-point-to-omar-remarks\/\" title=\"Republicans Call Double Standard on Greene\u2019s Committee Removals, Point to Omar Remarks\">child sex trafficking<\/a> on its network\u200b of highly popular pornography websites.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Attempts to Evade Scrutiny<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The uncovered emails from 2020 show conversations between MindGeek \u2063executives\u2062 and senior personnel \u200ddiscussing \u2064how to respond \u2062to a \u2064Mastercard\u2063 inquiry regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/high-school-teacher-arrested-on-child-porn-charges-reportedly-took-up-skirt-buttocks-shots-of-students\/\" title=\"High School Teacher Arrested On Child Porn Charges, Reportedly Took Up-Skirt, Buttocks Shots Of Students\">suspected child pornography<\/a> on the site. The \u200dCEO \u2062at the time, Feras Antoon, expressed frustration and concern about\u2062 the potential\u2062 consequences, stating, &#8220;This is very \u2062frustrating cuz imagine they are planning to shut us down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Insufficient Review Process<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The emails also shed light \u2062on\u2064 MindGeek&#8217;s inadequate\u200c review \u2063process. It was revealed that videos needed to receive more than 15 flags before they would even\u2064 be considered for manual review. \u2063This meant that a significant number of videos, totaling 706,425, \u2064were not reviewed at all.\u2064 Furthermore, there was only\u2063 one\u200c person responsible for reviewing flagged content, working five\u200c days a \u2064week. This lack of attention to such a serious issue is deeply concerning.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Questionable Intentions<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Discussions within MindGeek also revealed a potential motive for\u2063 their lax approach \u2064to reviewing flagged content. The CEO and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pornhub-had-roadblock-for-reviewing-potential-child-sexual-content-documents-show\/\" title=\"Documents reveal that Pornhub faced obstacles in reviewing potential child sexual content.\">chief \u2062product officer debated implementing<\/a> a threshold \u200bbased on the \u2064percentage of views per\u2064 video that were flagged. However, the CEO\u200b expressed concern that \u200cthis approach might give the\u2062 impression that they were intentionally \u2064profiting \u2063from popular videos containing objectionable content.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>A Criminal Offense<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Laila Mickelwait, founder and\u2064 CEO of \u200dJustice\u2063 Defense Fund and the Traffickinghub Movement, emphasized the gravity of the situation. \u200cShe stated that the admissions from\u200c MindGeek&#8217;s owners \u2063regarding their knowledge \u2064and intentional\u200c allowance of criminal content on the site, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hillary-clinton-voter-sentenced-35-to-life-for-shooting-over-2016-election\/\" title=\"Hillary Clinton Voter Sentenced 35-to-Life for Shooting over 2016 Election\">including child abuse<\/a>, could potentially lead to criminal prosecution. These actions are considered felony-level offenses in the United States.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>A Disturbing Pattern<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The\u200b revelations about Pornhub&#8217;s handling of CSAM are deeply troubling, \u2064especially when compared to other major platforms. While Facebook removed \u200b12.2\u2062 million child exploitation images in 2020 and Twitter closed 264,000 accounts in just six months of 2019, Pornhub \u2064reported only 118 instances of CSAM in the preceding three years. This stark contrast raises serious questions about\u200b their \u200bcommitment to \u2064combating this issue.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>MindGeek&#8217;s Troubled Reputation<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>MindGeek\u200d is currently facing multiple lawsuits due to its involvement in these disturbing practices. In \u2064an\u2064 attempt to salvage its tarnished image, Pornhub made changes in December 2020, reducing the number of available videos and altering the\u200d verification process for creators. However, critics argue\u200d that these\u2064 changes are insufficient\u2062 to address \u200dthe underlying problem.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Alarming Direct Messages and Depositions<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Further evidence of MindGeek&#8217;s questionable practices \u200ccomes from direct messages and depositions from employees. These exchanges suggest that\u200d management deliberately ignored\u200d child pornography and \u200cdid\u200b not enforce\u2064 content rules.\u2064 Such revelations only\u200b deepen \u2062the concerns surrounding MindGeek&#8217;s handling \u2064of\u2064 CSAM.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>A Call for Accountability<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The gravity of \u200cthe situation cannot be overstated. Victims \u200chave reported their\u2063 abuse videos multiple times, only to see\u200c them reappear on the\u2062 site. It is imperative that MindGeek faces the consequences of its actions, and \u2062that justice is served \u2062for \u200cthe victims.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click here<\/a> to\u2064 read more from the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Child sexual abuse videos on Pornhub required multiple reports before being reviewed by content moderators, according to documents uncovered in a California lawsuit against MindGeek, the site&#8217;s parent company. Emails and messages revealed that a video had to be flagged numerous times before action was taken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2026614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2026613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2026613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2026614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}