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Laila Mickelwait has nearly destroyed PornHub!

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Barearse · 08/06/2025 09:50

Laila Mickelwait has been working to shut down Pornhub and hold its executives accountable for aiding trafficking and child abuse for years and now she’s nearly there. I’ll be embroidering this incredible women’s name on Jean Hatchet’s Terf dress.

Laila Mickelwait has nearly destroyed PornHub!
Laila Mickelwait has nearly destroyed PornHub!
OP posts:
Christinapple · 09/06/2025 23:11

To clarify it's not "being shut down" it's removing unverified content again.

Hate to break it to you but there are thousands of streaming video porn sites online most don't have any verification in place at all. People just focus on Pornhub only as it's the most well known.

shallishanti · 09/06/2025 19:56

wonderful woman

WinterTrees · 09/06/2025 17:44

Thank you for posting this. I wasn't aware of her either and the avalanche of repulsive porn being constantly spewed into the internet and people's brains is one of the things that makes me feel genuine despair for the future of women and humanity. I feel overwhelmed by it and my response, I'm slightly ashamed to say, is to turn away. To discover that Laila has worked so tirelessly from the same starting point and made such an astonishing impact is humbling, inspiring and beyond impressive. Much gratitude and admiration from me.

letsallchant · 09/06/2025 16:20

Ashamed to say I hadn't heard of her. But this is great news and a major achievement. Thank you Laila.

Xiaoxiong · 09/06/2025 16:16

I can't believe that her Wikipedia entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laila_Mickelwait

Says:

"Mickelwait's Traffickinghub petition to "shut down Pornhub and hold its executives accountable for aiding trafficking" has garnered over 2 million signatures from 192 countries and has played an important role in her fight for accountability. Mickelwait's activism and leadership of the Traffickinghub movement played a pivotal role[14][18] in Visa, Mastercard and Discover cutting all ties with Pornhub[19][20][21] and Pornhub removing over 80 percent of the site's content, totaling over 30 million images and 10 million videos[22][23][24][25] in what Financial Times called "probably the biggest takedown of content in internet history."[26]

Then, at the top it says:

"This article is an orphan, as no other articles link to it. "

Then if you go to the talk page to find out how to improve the article it says "This article is rated Stub-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: Pornography ("low-importance")

If you click in to see what has been rated high importance, it includes the "top 50 porn stars" and medium importance includes "mid-importance performers are required to have multiple, non-trivial articles written about them outside adult industry journals, multiple important pornography awards (e.g. AVN Awards), or an induction into a notable Hall of Fame (e.g. AVN Hall of Fame)."

It quickly becomes clear that the Pornography Project is all about deciding which porn stars deserve to have a wikipedia page to themselves, rather than a woman who has fought for accountability, legality and safety, and is responsible for he biggest takedown of content in internet history.

Infuriating.

Laila Mickelwait - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laila_Mickelwait#cite_note-19

RunningWhileInjured · 09/06/2025 15:53

What a shame I can’t embroider. Loads of names I’d like to add

Barearse · 08/06/2025 20:24

Yes @lcakethereforeIam In response to the National Trust’s shameful reaction to the JKR sewing over and subsequent unpicking by Jean, she’s planned a new dress!

’I’m going to make a dress and tour it round and you can all add the names of any (female) TERF you’d like to honour. None of the names will be crossed out - whoever has beef with whoever else. Get them all on there. Famous, not famous, bit of an arsehole/heroine. I’ll make it this week. We can keep it somewhere TERFY for history purposes.

#TerfsDidThis’

There’s a list of towns and cities it’ll be touring and women (no men allowed for this one) are invited to sew their fave turf’s name on it!

I misunderstood at first and thought it was for terfs to sew their fave feminists name on it but I’m counting on Laila Mickelwait being a bit of a terf too.

OP posts:
lcakethereforeIam · 08/06/2025 15:00

Brilliant.

Jean Hatchet has a terf dress?

ArabellaScott · 08/06/2025 13:36

She should be given some kind of award or recognition.

ItisntOver · 08/06/2025 13:27

Are we going to have crass journalists asking her if she feels sad for depriving so many of a resource that they enjoyed?

Yes, I am riffing off the SC coverage.

Brava to this splendid woman, her endurance and achievements.

Tealpins · 08/06/2025 13:13

Wow. That is inspirational. Thanks for posting OP. I used to follow her on Twitter-X but as I've left that site, I didn't know any of this. Superb.

JazzyJelly · 08/06/2025 13:10

Brava!

Igmum · 08/06/2025 13:09

Well done 👏

HereForTheFreeLunch · 08/06/2025 13:06

Wow! This is amazing!

dudsville · 08/06/2025 13:05

Wow, I wouldn't have thought this was possible. It really opens up notions of achievable positive change that can happen.

Vegemiteandhoneyontoast · 08/06/2025 13:02

Wow, this is incredible. I never thought I'd see the day that such a monstrous place was shut down!

Shedmistress · 08/06/2025 13:01

Governments could close down porn in minutes if they wanted to.

She is absolutely amazing. What a woman.

WarriorN · 08/06/2025 12:55

That’s amazing!

Deadringer · 08/06/2025 12:45

That is frankly quite astounding. Wow

MoltenLasagne · 08/06/2025 12:43

Absolutely incredible!

BiologicalRobot · 08/06/2025 12:32

This is the first I've heard of it. What a strong and determined woman 💪❤

Teamsaction · 08/06/2025 11:49

Wow, amazing!

onlytherain · 08/06/2025 11:42

What an amazing achievement!

Keeptoiletssafe · 08/06/2025 11:34

Inspirational!

imnotrobert · 08/06/2025 11:32

Wow. This has actually made me tear up- sometimes, it feels like this kind of stuff is just too big and widely accepted to tackle, and then an amazing woman like Laila comes along and shows that it can be done. Hope!

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