For a long time now, Pornhub has been criticized for hosting non-consensual and also minor rape videos.
Anti-trafficking expert Laila Mickelwait started a petition to shut down Pornhub, and as of Wednesday, the petition has garnered more than a million signatures.
“Pornhub, the world’s largest and most popular porn site, has been repeatedly caught enabling, hosting, and profiting from videos of child rape, sex trafficking, and other forms of non-consensual content exploiting women and minors.
We’re calling for Pornhub to be shut down and its executives held accountable for these crimes,” stated the petition.
“A 15-year-old girl who had been missing for a year was finally found after her mother was tipped off that her daughter was being featured in videos on the site 58 such videos of her rape and sexual abuse were discovered on Pornhub. Her trafficker, who was seen in the videos raping the child, was identified using surveillance footage of him at a 7-Eleven where he was spotted with his victim. He is now facing a felony charge” continued the petition.
Criticising Pornhub for its policies, the petition further reads, ”Pornhub is generating millions in advertising and membership revenue with 42 billion visits and 6 million videos uploaded per year. Yet it has no system in place to verify reliably the age or consent of those featured in the pornographic content it hosts and profits from.”
With the voice against PornHub is growing big, soon the officials might launch an investigation into Pornhub and its parent company MindGeek.
