Laila Mickelwait's Fight to Shut Down Pornhub, Pt. 1
Consider Before Consuming
Fight the New Drug
4.8 • 779 Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Trigger Warning
*The following episode contains descriptions of disturbing porn themes, discussions of child sexual abuse and sex trafficking. Listener discretion is advised.
Laila Mickelwait is an anti-trafficking activist, Founder and CEO of the Justice Defense Fund, Founder of the Traffickinghub movement, and author of "Take Down: Inside the Fight to Shut Down PornHub for Child Abuse, Rape, and Sex Trafficking,”
In this Consider Before Consuming podcast episode, Laila shares her journey in the anti-sex trafficking movement and her efforts to expose and combat illegal content on Pornhub.
Fight the New Drug is a non-religious and non-legislative awareness and education organization. Some of the issues discussed in this episode may be legislatively-affiliated. Though our organization is non-legislative, we fully support the fights against already illegal forms of pornography and sexual exploitation, and against sex trafficking.
Episode Resources
Laila's Book: Takedown
Laila's Article: Time to Shut Pornhub Down
FTND Resource: Porn and Sex Trafficking
Podcast: Consider Before Consuming, Ep. 35: Nikolas Kristof
Article: What's Going on with Pornhub?
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| 0:00.0 | This might be the biggest scandal you haven't heard about. |
| 0:05.0 | The largest porn website. |
| 0:06.0 | Attracting 130 million users a day more than Netflix or Amazon. |
| 0:12.0 | Born Hub is under investigation. |
| 0:15.0 | This is a company that did whatever it wanted until one woman and a laptop exposed the truth. |
| 0:20.0 | She is the founder of the Justice Defense Fund. one of the pioneers in anti-trafficking. |
| 0:24.6 | Lila McAway. |
| 0:25.6 | Lila, Michaelway. |
| 0:26.6 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:27.6 | I was reading the story of a missing 15-year-old girl who was found when somebody tipped off her mother, |
| 0:33.6 | that she was in 58 videos on Pornhub being raped and abused the Sunday Times. |
| 0:40.3 | Did an investigation. |
| 0:41.3 | They found dozens of illegal videos, even children as young as three years old. |
| 0:46.3 | How was this happening? |
| 0:48.3 | I decided to test this upload system. |
| 0:51.3 | In under 10 minutes, with only an email address, I was able to upload content |
| 0:55.1 | that went live on the site. They weren't asking for an ID. They weren't asking for a consent |
| 1:00.0 | form to make sure that this wasn't a rape or trafficking victim. The site became infested with |
| 1:05.9 | videos of real sexual crime. I have to sound the alarm on this. |
| 1:12.6 | I was posting on Twitter, started a petition. |
| 1:15.4 | We're just about to hit one million. |
| 1:16.8 | Two million signatures. |
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