Pornhub - ***MNHQ adjusting subject line to add that the thread is regarding Laila Mickelwait and her work***

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Mumsnetters - please watch this video by Laila Mickelwait and consider buying her book 'Takedown'. (Hopefully I've configured the link correctly!) The stories are heart-breaking.

Sorry, that was my post and you're quite right.

Many years ago I had to review the search terms on my employers Google white label to manage the functionality that suppresses the auto complete.(if you want to know why: we wanted to trim the list to ensure that we didn't suppress too much of the auto complete, as it's a very good driver of conversion rates). Truly an awful, awful list of depravity.

Pornhub are awful. I remember reading a few years back a BBC article about a teenage girl who was raped at 14, which was filmed and put on Pornhub. She told them that it was rape, that she was underage, but they refused to take it down. It was only when she created a fake lawyers letter that they acted.

Poor lass tried to commit suicide during her recovery, both because of the trauma of the rape, and because her schoolmates were bullying her because of the video.

ExH was into rape porn (which is why he’s my ex) and I know pornhub was the one of the main sites he used. He always maintained that he was in the right and there was nothing wrong with what he was doing. Everyone did it, etc.

He left the history on the computer, which is how I discovered he was into this. I saw a few of the things he watched and remember reporting one as the girl looked to be quite young, under 18.

Reading this thread is tough. It just confirms what I thought all those years ago. I wish exH could read this. I wish he could finally realise its not ok and just how wrong it really is.

He does know.

He just does not care

Thank you for highlighting. I’ve signed the petition.

Can you add a link to her petition in AIBU she’s pretty close to her goal? Probably the best way to support her work and get rid of Pornhub and similar.

It really is shocking, isn't it! It amazes me, especially in this day and age (good grief that made me feel old!) with AI and the like, as well as a much better sense of corporate responsibility, just what things Google will suggest for a user to look at. That, and how quick and eager Search seems to be to defeat it's own blocklist, which I guess is an evolution of the "people who clicked that also clicked this" functionality (I know I'm preaching to the choir here, even though I've not a clue how these things actually work.. sorry!)

If she writes something worth reading why wouldn't you read her book?

The blatant book advertisement in the OP is off putting.

Book recommendations are not uncommon on FWR.

I've put the book on my wishlist.

I really appreciate the book recommendations on FWR.
I don't know what is going on on MN this week. There seems to be a noticeable increase in efforts to discourage women from speaking.

I'm fascinated by the way people are reacting to the op. Rather than be horrified at what pornhub have been allowing on their platform, women are objecting to the manner in which this has been brought to their attention.
It is microcosm of how women's behaviour is policed out in the world.
Your message might be ok, but look at how awful you are when you point it out!

Great idea…. I’ll certainly try, but as you’ve probably guessed, I’m not a whizz with technology!

I do appreciate the irony of me pulling you up on terminology in a post which I actually agree with, but it's really important we get away from using the term 'child pornography'. It can make it sound like just another category of porn, or give the impression it's in some way possible for children to consent to becoming a 'porn star', which of course they can't. I do know that you weren't implying either of these things, but if we can de-legitimise use of the phrase it makes that even clearer. They are always "images of child sexual abuse".

MN don't allow links to petitions in ordinary threads. You have to put the link in the "petitions" thread, then mention it in the ordinary thread.

Thank you!

I've posted a link to Laila Mickelwait's petition in this thread on Petitions and Activism: Pornhub and the work of Laila Mickelwait
Please consider signing it. Obviously, do your due diligence first!
There's a link here. too:
Traffickinghub Petition - Shut Down Pornhub #Traffickinghub

If you go to the trafficking hub petition website, there are links to articles - below is an excerpt from one in 'the New Yorker'

...A thirty-year-old man had been arrested in Florida for lewd and lascivious battery of a fifteen-year-old girl who had been missing for nearly a year; her family had found approximately fifty-eight videos of her on Pornhub and other Web sites. (The company says that it removed the material the day it was notified.) Shortly after that, the Sunday Times of London published an article about the corporations that advertise on Pornhub, including Heinz and Unilever, and noted that its reporters had found “dozens of examples of illegal material on the website within minutes.” (The company replied that child-sexual-abuse material made up a tiny proportion of content, and that the aim was to eradicate it.)...

I'm still letting the bolded bits sink in myself.

https://www.decisionmarketing.co.uk/news/unilever-wilts-but-kraft-stays-firm-in-pornhub-ad-row

from 2019.

The letter ''X'' is definitely linked with ''X rated'' in many people's minds {If they are over 40 at least}
That, coupled with plain black background implies a more adult theme compared to the more innocent blue bird and ''Twitter''.

Definitely done purposefully. That was no mere coincidence.

You should google the name of Elon Musk's son. It'll be something to do with that.

My concern with this link and the promotion is that there's a lot of comments below the x link that support Reform UK.