What’s Going On With Pornhub?
Consider Before Consuming
Fight the New Drug
4.8 • 779 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2021
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Disclaimer: 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.
Trigger Warning: Graphic descriptions of sex trafficking, child sexual abuse materials, and other forms of sexual exploitation are discussed during this conversation. Listener discretion is advised.
This week we’re bringing you a different, bonus episode discussing what’s been going on with one of the world’s largest porn sites, Pornhub, and its parent company, MindGeek. In December 2020, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof published an investigative column in the New York Times giving visibility to Pornhub’s questionable business practices, specifically highlighting how the porn tube site reportedly hosts and profits off of nonconsensual content, image-based sexual abuse (IBSA) and child sexual abuse material (CSAM). Since the New York Times exposé, a lot has happened in response, including Pornhub announcing changes to their platform and removing over 10 million videos from the site, Mastercard, Visa, and Discover suspending their payment processing services on Pornhub, and the Canadian House of Commons Ethics Committee (ETHI) launching an investigation into MindGeek for reportedly hosting videos of child sexual abuse, rape, sex trafficking, and nonconsensually-distributed content.
Please note that this is a developing story and ongoing investigation. For a recent, simplified timeline of events, please visit ftnd.org/phtimeline.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey listeners. Did you know that Consider Before Consuming is a podcast by Fight the New Drug? |
| 0:07.7 | Fight the New Drug is a non-religious, non-legislative 501c3 nonprofit that exists to provide |
| 0:13.6 | individuals the opportunity to make an informed decision regarding pornography by raising awareness |
| 0:18.9 | on the harmful effects using only science, facts, |
| 0:21.7 | and personal accounts. Fight the New Drug is research-based, education focus, sex positive, and |
| 0:27.9 | anti-shame. To learn more about Fight the New Drug and to see the additional free resources that we |
| 0:32.7 | offer, like our three-part documentary series and our interactive conversation guide, |
| 0:41.7 | visit FtnD.org. That's FtnD.org. |
| 0:48.4 | My name is Garrett Johnson, and you're listening to Consider Before Consuming, |
| 0:53.7 | a podcast by Fight the New Drug. We want these conversations to be educational, |
| 0:57.2 | uplifting, and hopeful. As we discuss the science, facts, and personal accounts, we cover a wide variety of topics that may be triggering |
| 1:02.6 | to some. During this conversation, we discuss child sexual abuse materials, sex trafficking, |
| 1:08.7 | and other forms of non-consensual content. Listen |
| 1:12.3 | discretion is advised. Today's episode is a little different compared to other episodes |
| 1:18.1 | published thus far. For this conversation, I sat down with Fight the New Drugs Editorial Director |
| 1:24.7 | to discuss what's happening with Pornhub and its parent company, Mind |
| 1:29.4 | Geek. This conversation follows a timeline that begins on December 4th, 2020, when the New York |
| 1:35.9 | Times published a piece titled The Children of Pornhub. This expose has led to an investigation |
| 1:42.3 | by the Canadian government into Pornhub's parent company, Mindgeek. |
| 1:47.4 | With that being said, let's jump into the conversation. |
| 1:50.8 | We hope you enjoy this episode of Consider Before Consuming. |
| 1:56.8 | We want to welcome to the podcast, Carrie. |
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