{"id":567760,"date":"2021-06-18T11:51:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T15:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=567760"},"modified":"2021-06-18T11:51:11","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T15:51:11","slug":"dozens-of-women-sue-pornhub-after-it-allegedly-posted-non-consensual-sex-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dozens-of-women-sue-pornhub-after-it-allegedly-posted-non-consensual-sex-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Dozens Of Women Sue Pornhub After It Allegedly Posted Non-Consensual Sex Videos"},"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%2Fdozens-of-women-sue-pornhub-after-it-allegedly-posted-non-consensual-sex-videos%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=567760&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1229434053-scaled-e1624028349141.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><span>Dozens of women have sued Pornhub, alleging that it posted and profited from videos depicting sex trafficking, child sexual exploitation and other non-consensual sexual content.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/brownrudnick.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/2021.06.17-Dkt.-001-Complaint.pdf\"><span>complaint<\/span><\/a><span> filed Thursday targets Pornhub\u2019s parent company, MindGeek, for allegedly being a \u201cclassic criminal enterprise\u201d and allowing the monetization of non-consensual sexual content. <\/span><span>Brown Rudnick LLP filed a civil complaint on behalf of 34 victims of sexual exploitation who seek damages and protection, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/06\/17\/tech\/pornhub-lawsuit-filed\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN Business.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis is a case about rape, not pornography,\u201d the complaint reads. \u201cAnd it is a case about each of these defendants knowingly and intentionally electing to capitalize and profit from the horrendous exploitation and abuse of tens of thousands of other human beings so they could make more than the enormous sums of money they would have otherwise made anyway.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The complaint lists just one of the defendants \u2014 a woman named Serena Fleites \u2014 while the other 33 remain anonymous.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>One of the anonymous plaintiffs told reporters on a conference call that a video posted of her on Pornhub ruined her life, and joined the lawsuit to \u201cseek justice\u201d for herself and the \u201ccountless\u201d other <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/19\/pornhub-mindgeek-department-of-justice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">victims<\/a> who did not come forward, according to CNN.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Michael Bow, the lawyer representing the plaintiffs, told reporters on the same call that the online porn industry operates as an \u201cold-school red-light district of commerce.\u201d Bow said he thinks rules should apply to the industry, and more should be adopted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>MindGeek is a major player in the online porn world. The company owns over 100 websites, production companies and brands including Pornhub, RedTube, Tube8, Xtube and Youporn. CBS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/pornhub-lawsuit-nonconsensual-videos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a> that while\u00a0MindGeek owns production companies that create original pornographic content, for years, \u00a0a majority of the content on Pornhub was uploaded by users who were not verified. Pornhub also is free for anyone on the internet to access.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>While Pornhub \u201ctakes every complaint regarding the abuse of its platform seriously, including those of the plaintiffs in this case,\u201d it rebuffed the allegation that the company was a \u201ccriminal enterprise\u201d in a statement provided to CNN.<\/p>\n<p><span> Its various entities get 3.5 billion views per month, lawyers told CNN. <strong>(<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/26\/pornhub-mindgeek-home-fire-ceo-suspected-arson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">RELATED: Pornhub Executive, MindGeek CEO\u2019s House Burns Down In Suspected Arson<\/a>).<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The suit is the latest in a slew of legal actions taken against Pornhub and MindGeek. Visa, Mastercard and Discover <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/10\/most-major-credit-card-companies-now-block-payments-to-pornhub\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">barred<\/a> their customers from making purchases on Pornhub in December after similar allegations of showing child abuse and non-consensual sexual behavior on the site surfaced.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of women have sued Pornhub, alleging that it posted and profited from videos depicting sex trafficking, child sexual exploitation and other non-consensual sexual content.\u00a0The complaint filed Thursday targets Pornhub\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280678,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1229434053-scaled-e1624028349141.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Dozens Of Women Sue Pornhub After It Allegedly Posted Non-Consensual Sex Videos","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1229434053-scaled-e1624028349141.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Dozens Of Women Sue Pornhub After It Allegedly Posted Non-Consensual Sex Videos","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567760","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=567760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}