How Pornhub Became The Internet’s Biggest Crime Scene - Laila Mickelwait - #956

Pornhub is not a porn site. It's a crime scene. What's that mean? It means exactly what you just said. So what I discovered about five years ago was what millions of people already knew, and that all it took to upload to the world's YouTube of porn.

So this is user-generated porn, uh, the biggest porn site in the world at the time. Actually, it was the fifth most trafficked website in the world at the time. I made this discovery that all it took to upload to Pornhub was an email address that anybody in under 10 minutes could upload to the site and they were not verifying ID to make sure that these were not children and they were not verifying consent to make sure that these are not rape or trafficking victims. And because of that, the site had actually become infested with videos of real sexual crime. So we're talking about child abuse.

child sexual abuse material we call it. So this is child rape. It's also self-generated child sexual abuse material where children would be, you know, filming themselves and sharing it. And then that would get uploaded to Pornhub, which is completely illegal to be viewing and distributing that content. To adult rape, you know, unconscious women completely drunk, non consenting, to all the way to what we used to call revenge porn.

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