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Consider Before Consuming

Laila Mickelwait's Fight to Shut Down Pornhub, Pt. 2

Consider Before Consuming

Fight the New Drug

Education, Science, Social Sciences, Health & Fitness, Sexuality

4.8779 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 43 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 continues to share about her efforts to expose and combat illegal content on Pornhub, including the fight to hold credit card companies accountable.

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

Traffickinghub Petition

Justice Defense Fund

Laila's Article: Why Are Visa And Mastercard Still Doing Business with Pornhub?

FTND Resource: Porn and Sex Trafficking

Podcast: Consider Before Consuming, Ep. 35: Nikolas Kristof

Article: What's Going on with Pornhub?

Nikolas Kristof's Article: The Children of Pornhub

Sheelah Kolhatkar's Article: The Fight to Hold Pornhub Accountable

 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This episode is the final part of our two-part interview with Lila Micklewade, author of

0:16.2

Take Down Inside the Fight to Shut Down Pornhub for Child Abuse, Rape, and Sex Trafficking,

0:21.3

founder and the CEO of the Justice Defense Fund, and the founder of the Trafficking Hub movement.

0:26.6

If you haven't yet listened to Part 1, we encourage you to do so before jumping into this episode.

0:32.6

In the second part of her interview, Lila discusses the intricate details and challenges faced in the fight against

0:38.4

Pornhub, highlighting the critical role of credit card companies and monetizing illegal content.

0:44.4

Lila also shares about the powerful testimonies from victims during parliamentary hearings,

0:49.3

emphasizing their crucial role in driving change.

0:52.7

Join us to hear about the ongoing efforts to hold Pornhub accountable and the powerful ripple

0:57.3

effects of advocacy in this crucial battle against sexual exploitation.

1:02.0

We hope you enjoy this episode of Consider Before Consuming.

1:09.8

I do want to talk a little bit about going back to kind of the idea of if we want to create change, we have to affect their revenue.

1:17.0

One thing you do so well in your book, take down inside the fight to shut down porn hub for child abuse, rape, and sex trafficking, part one of this episode we've already covered.

1:29.3

You approached this so brilliantly and kind of working with the team of others.

1:34.5

Can you tell us a little bit about kind of the role that Bowie has played in all of this

1:39.5

and then also what your interactions with credit card companies looked like kind of at this

1:43.9

time and

1:44.5

and what the objective was, what the goals were there.

1:47.8

Yeah.

1:48.4

So thanks to many advisors and help, you know, people who were just colleagues and comrades

1:56.9

and people who had been in the anti-trafficking fight for a long time. You know, one of them who I especially appreciate in the book is Brad Miles,

2:04.7

formerly with Polaris Project, now with Panorama.

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