Congressional Briefing on MindGeek’s Pornhub Empire
April 9, 2021
Advocates and survivors shared proof that Pornhub distributes and profits from exploitation and illegal content with seemingly no consequence.
Advocates and survivors shared proof that Pornhub distributes and profits from exploitation and illegal content with seemingly no consequence.
he National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) announced that Lisa Thompson, vice president and director of the Research Institute at the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, is a keynote speaker at the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science’s International Symposium today, April 8, the World Day for Child Sexual Abuse Prevention, Healing and Justice.
Wish Shopping and Diesel are top advertisers with MindGeek—Call on them to cut ties with a corporation built on sexual abuse and exploitation!
As part of the Dismantle Pornhub Campaign, the International Centre on Sexual Exploitation (ICOSE) and a coalition of 104 survivors and advocates from 13 countries, have sent letters to the CEOs of Wish and Diesel to call both companies out for enabling and profiting from child sexual abuse material, sex trafficking and non-consensual videos on Pornhub and other MindGeek-owned websites as prominent advertisers on the hardcore pornography websites.
The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) said that pornography websites such as Pornhub and XVideos must be prosecuted for illegal activities, given further evidence of criminal activity in a new analysis published in the British Journal of Criminology.
A group of survivor and advocate-led organizations are sponsoring a congressional briefing to present evidence of the rampant criminality on Pornhub, which is owned by MindGeek, an international company with offices/servers in the U.S.
Amazon Original content is gearing up to hypersexualize the fantasy world of J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings.”
Visa still processes payment for MindGeek sites that host exploitative content. Demand they reject profits from sexual abuse.
Thank Kraft Heinz and Unilever for prioritizing people over profit by cutting ties with the porn industry.
The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) is pleased to recognize Kraft Heinz and Unilever as the recipients of its Dignity Defense Alert for publicly stating that they would not advertise on Pornhub, or similar pornographic sites.
The joint campaign #DismantlePornhub has been launched by the International Centre on Sexual Exploitation (UK), Collective Shout (Australia), Defend Dignity (Canada), Traffickinghub (USA) to call out entities that support the infrastructure of Pornhub and MindGeek.
Roku continues to provide infrastructure that enables Pornhub’s exploitative practices. Help us hold them to account!