Daily: Taking down the Porn King

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 9 June 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Adult video site Pornhub is the tenth most popular website in the world, with seven million clips uploaded every year. It’s also been accused of actively profiting from the abuse of women and young girls via its shady “amateur” videos. How can anyone hold Pornhub to account when its owner is all but anonymous? Tortoise’s Alexi Mostrous and Patricia Clarke tell Ros Taylor how they exposed the identity of Bernd Bergmair – chasing him down from China to New York City to just around the corner from their London offices. • “Victims of abuse often have to get images of themselves taken down themselves.” • “Not only does Pornhub allow abusive content on their site, they fail to get rid of it quickly enough.” • “Pornhub’s model is inherently inconsistent with preventing abusive content." • “There’s a gap between the bubbly image Pornhub portrays and the anonymity of its owners.” Presented by Ros Taylor. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producers Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production https://open.spotify.com/episode/2Lqt3kIsFJBoxM1HBtCUxn See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved
0:05.5	photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.
0:11.8	Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?
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1:14.2	Don't worry no need to answer that question, but I wouldn't be entirely surprised if you had.
1:18.4	It's the 10th most popular website in the world. But what you may not have realized is that one of the key people
1:24.2	behind it is living in an exclusive part of West London. And in its 14 years of existence,
1:30.4	Pornhub has become increasingly controversial.
1:33.4	Alexi Mostress and Patricia Clark have been investigating the site for the Slow News
1:38.0	site Tortoise and they're with me to talk about what they've uncovered.
1:41.8	Welcome to the bunker Alex they've uncovered. Welcome to the bunker, Alexi.
1:44.4	Hey, and Patricia.
1:46.3	Hi.
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