Takedown: Inside the Fight to Shut Down Pornhub for Child Abuse, Rape, and Sex Trafficking with Laila Mickelwait

Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan

Dr. Steven Hassan

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 684 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Pornhub was once recognized as the largest and most popular porn site in the world. The site made it easy for users to upload and download content, which is desirable in other contexts. However, these features pose significant threats when applied to freely accessible user-generated, homemade, pornography. Reports suggest that without adequate safeguards, there was a rapid increase in uploads of questionable, illegal, and violent content, including instances of nonconsensual sexual acts. More troublingly, such content became widely viewable and could be downloaded onto private devices. Laila Mickelwait is the author of the new book Takedown: Inside the Fight to Shut Down Pornhub for Child Abuse, Rape, and Sex Trafficking. She is also the founder and CEO of the Justice Defense Fund, a non-profit organization that seeks to help bring justice to survivors of online sexual crimes. Numerous lawsuits have been filed based on sex trafficking, child abuse, and RICO laws in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K., with claims that Visa and two hedge funds also knowingly profited from content depicting sexual abuse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr. Stephen Hassan with another episode of the influence continuum.
0:09.8	And I'm with Lila Micklewate today, who's the founder and CEO of the Justice Defense Fund
0:17.7	and the founder of the Trafficking Hub movement, supported by millions around the world.
0:24.1	Lila, you have a new book.
0:25.9	Maybe I can ask you to hold it up.
0:27.7	It's called Take Down Inside the Fight to Shut Down Pornhub for child abuse, rape, and sex
0:35.3	trafficking.
0:36.5	Great.
0:37.1	And for our audio listeners, you have to go
0:39.5	and look at the video to see the book. But we're going to do a blog, and we'll put the cover
0:45.2	of your book on this. And Lila, you've been researching and combating sex trafficking for over 15
0:52.8	years.
0:58.6	And wow, when I first learned about you,
1:01.6	this is the first time I've learned about your good work.
1:05.3	And I wanted to have you on the show.
1:07.7	You've received your master's for a public diplomacy degree
1:09.7	from the Annenberg School of Communication.
1:13.9	And this, you've been quoted by endless sources, so all the big shows.
1:22.4	So Lila, tell us how did you got interested in this and what led to the book and tell us about your,
1:28.7	your nonprofit?
1:30.6	It's great.
1:31.1	Of course.
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