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.

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  • eatthecake@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Yes i am a social deviant.
    They made bad porn because people want it. People did this.

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      9 months ago

      And they make computers and cell phones with slavery because we want it. It cuts both ways. Help people be better or sit down.

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          9 months ago

          No, they aren’t. The criminals are the ones raping people and filming rape. No one is defending them.

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              Something in the universe can be wrong, and you can also hold an opinion against that wrong that is also nowhere near the truth. There are lots of ways to be wrong.

              Just because you are against something wrong, doesn’t make you right. And being vehemently against something doesn’t make you vehemently correct.

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              9 months ago

              Are these “defenders” here with us now?

              Seriously, of anyone defending the producers are in this thread, they’re so far downvoted that I haven’t seen em.