Why Child Porn on Pornhub Is Making Visa and MasterCard Block Payments

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🗓️ 18 December 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Visa and Mastercard are reportedly blocking payments on Pornhub due to allegations of child pornography on Pornhub. What is going on here?

Nicholas Kristof, an opinion columnist for the New York Times recently wrote a heartbreaking column on the children of PornHub, telling some of the stories of the children of PornHub. What are some of those stories?

How can people stand up to PornHub and their aiding and abetting of child porn?

Haley McNamara, the director of the International Centre on Sexual Exploitation in the UK, and a Vice President at the U.S. based National Center on Sexual Exploitation, joins The Daily Signal Podcast to discuss.

We also cover these stories:

Vice President Mike Pence is scheduled to receive the Coronavirus vaccine on TV on Friday morning.
Google is under fire from more than a third of America’s states for operation as a monopoly.
Jobless claims have reached 885,000 due to a coronavirus spike.

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Friday, December 18th. I'm Virginia Allen.
0:10.0	And I'm Rachel Del Judas.
0:12.0	Two big credit card companies, Visa and MasterCard,
0:15.3	are making news reportedly saying that they are blocking payments
0:19.0	on Porn Hub due to allegations of child pornography.
0:22.7	How rampant is the problem of child porn on Porn Hub?
0:26.5	Haley McNamara, the director of the International Center
0:29.2	on Sexual Exploitation in the UK,
0:31.6	and a vice president at the US-based National Center on Sexual
0:34.8	Exploitation joins me today on the Daily Signal Podcast to talk about what's
0:39.0	going on here. And don't forget if you're enjoying podcast, please be sure to leave us a review in a five-star rating on Apple podcast.
0:47.5	And as always, please do encourage others to subscribe.
0:51.0	Now, on to our top news. Vice President Mike Pence is scheduled to receive the coronavirus vaccine on TV on Friday morning.
1:06.5	Pence per Axios plans to be joined by Second Lady Karen Pence and Surgeon General Jerome Adams, who is set to be part of a town hall later in the week to remote the vaccine to the African American community.
1:18.5	Google is under fire from more than a third of America's states for operating as a monopoly.
1:26.1	On Wednesday, Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that Texas, along with nine other states,
1:32.1	were suing Google for violating antitrust and
1:35.2	consumer protection laws at both the state and federal level.
1:39.1	In the announcement of the suit, Paxton said, Google is a trillion dollar monopoly, brazenly abusing its monopolistic
1:47.3	power going so far as to induce senior Facebook executives to agree to a contractual scheme that undermines the heart of competitive
1:57.0	process.
1:58.4	In this advertising monopoly on an electronically traded market, Google is essentially trading on insider information
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