To deconstruct the compound title above, we are going to merge some of our previous reporting, as follows.
In the following link below, we examined how Putin-linked porn bank, Paxum and/or ES "Family Trust", financed Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump's/Devin Nunes' campaign and propaganda channel, and where Paxum was the financial provider of one of the largest pornography sites in the world - PornHub - and where it has since been revealed that PornHub may have employed child porn from sex trafficked children and sex trafficked women, despite the site verifying to its users that they had verified those employed in the videos.
Our article today revealed that GOP Speaker Mike Johnson, who unlawfully adopted a little boy, made that minor his pornography accountability partner, and where they shared any porn each of them was watching with per the following article.
Mike Johnson and accused and sued pedophile, the GOP's Judge Paul Pressler, disappeared $5.5 million together, after Pressler's law school start up hired Johnson as the Dean, but then they never opened the law school, and after it was revealed that forged signatures and dates were used to deceive SACS accrediting organization into providing accreditation to the law school named after accused and sued pedophile Paul Pressler, resulting in no accreditation being provided, per the following article.
That got us wondering IF the GOP's Mike Johnson (who had worked for accused pedophile Paul Pressler) and his unlawfully-adopted or acquired child (a minor Mike Johnson made his pornography accountability partner) visited Pornhub, during their shared adult-minor pornography adventures together, and where PornHub's financial partner, Paxum, linked to ICC's child (sex) trafficker Putin (the father of the owner of Paxum was part of Putin's orbit) is who financed GOP's Ron DeSantis, Jeffrey Epstein's and Russia's Donald Trump, and/or Devin Nunes, through Russia's and Jeffrey Epstein's crime syndicate-financed GOP and Jeffrey Epstein's Trump Organization, and/or ES Family Trust (which based on our research, was linked to locations, companies, and countries linked to Jeffrey Epstein's Prince Andrew and/or Prince Harry)?
Though no details of Mike Johnson and his unlawfully-adopted minor's shared pornography adventures other have been revealed - given the strong pedophile orbit and affiliations of Mike Johnson, and given that Pornhub was known to deceive at least some of its users by stating they verified their porn actors, who turned out to be children, sex trafficked children, and/or sex trafficked individuals who were actually forced unwillingly to have sex and make porn, and given that ICC's child (sex) trafficker Putin (linked to Jeffrey Epstein's Trump family's trafficking interests per the June 9, 2016 Russian adoption of children meeting at Trump Tower, the context Putin and Russia were kidnapping, raping, torturing, and trafficking children from Ukraine to Russia, where the Trump family want to "adopt" children [in mass] from) was behind the financing of PornHub, one of the largest porn sites in the world - it seems at least plausible that Mike Johnson and his acquired minor he was on porn adventures with may have visited one of the largest porn sites, based in Jeffrey Epstein's Prince Andrew's and Prince Harry's Canada.
We can't be certain until the nature of the porn Mike Johnson was sharing with the minor he acquired is revealed, but given that PornHub was eventually revealed as involved in child porn, we wouldn't put it past Mike Johnson to have been involved in sharing child pornography with the child he acquired via an unlawful adoption (which in some circles is known as child trafficking).
The pieces largely fit. The hand fits that glove. The fact that he acquired someone else's child outside of the legal adoption process, and then entered into a pornography sharing partnership with the child speaks volumes, as does Johnson being engineered into GOP House Speaker by repeatedly accused pedophile Matt Gaetz, and Johnson's shady work for accused and sued pedophile Paul Pressler.
And then there's Johnson's overt furtherance of some of Jeffrey Epstein's Donald Trump's attempts to overthrow the United States to keep Trump in power over the justice system, by "engineering" Trump unlawfully into power, which overtly furthered the conspiracy of Putin to do the same in 2016, who has since been issued an arrest warrant by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for trafficking children from Ukraine to Russia, and where Jeffrey Epstein's Trump family were very interested in adopting children from Putin's Russia. The pieces largely fit. The hand fits that glove. Res ipsa loquitur malum in se, this natural evil speaks for itself.
Accordingly, and based on our previous reporting regarding Jeffrey Epstein's link to Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and Google's founder, it came as no surprise to us at all, that Jeffrey Epstein's Brin's and Pages' Google's YouTube and/or Jeffrey Epstein's and Russia's (via Prince Andrew's family's SCL Group's Cambridge Analytica) Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook, are named in Wikipedia's description of Pornhub's activities, and of course all of this is consistent with the child sex trafficking ring, orbit, clients, financiers, and/or associates we have been focused on elucidating across most of our articles.
"Pornhub is a Canadian-owned internet pornography website. It is one of several pornographic video-streaming websites owned by MindGeek.[3][4] As of November 2022, Pornhub is the 13th-most-trafficked website in the world and the second-most-trafficked adult website after XVideos.[5]
Pornhub was launched in Montreal, Canada, in 2007.[6] Pornhub also has an office and servers in Limassol, Cyprus.[7] In March 2010, the company was bought by MindGeek (known then as Manwin), which owns numerous other pornographic websites. The site is available internationally, but has been blocked by several individual countries (such as India, mainland China, the Philippines, Pakistan and Sri Lanka). It offers virtual reality porn, amongst other products, and hosts the Pornhub Awards annually.
Incidents have been reported of Pornhub hosting non-consensual pornography.[8] The company has been criticized for slow or inadequate responses to some of these incidents, including the hosting of the high-profile channel GirlsDoPorn,[9][10][11] which was closed in 2019, following a lawsuit and charges of sex trafficking.[8][12] In December 2020, following a New York Times exposé on such content (and its associated potential backlash), payment processors Mastercard and Visa cut their services to Pornhub. On 14 December 2020, Pornhub removed all videos by unverified users.[13] This reduced the content from 13 million to 4 million videos.[14] A 2023 documentary, Money Shot: The Pornhub Story, covers the opposition to Pornhub and the views of some pornographic performers.
History
Pornhub was founded by web developer Matt Keezer as a website within the company Interhub, and launched on 25 May 2007.[15] In March 2010, the company was purchased by Fabian Thylmann as part of the Manwin conglomerate, now known as MindGeek.[16] In 2013, Thylmann sold his stake in the company to senior management, Feras Antoon and David Tassillo.[17] As part of MindGeek, Pornhub makes up one of several pornographic websites in the company's "Pornhub Network", alongside YouPorn, RedTube, and others.[6] Though not the most popular pornographic website, Pornhub is the single largest such website on the internet, hosting more videos than any similar site.[3][needs update][18]
The website allows visitors to view pornographic videos from a number of categories, including professional and amateur pornography. Users can share videos on social media websites and leave "like" or "dislike" votes. Users may also optionally register a free Pornhub account, which additionally allows them to post comments, download videos and add videos to their favourites, as well as upload videos themselves. Videos can be flagged if they contain content which violates the website's terms of service.[19]
In an effort to introduce quality curation to the site, the company launched a service called "Pornhub Select" in October 2013.[20] Pornhub also launched a content curation website on 9 October 2013 called "PornIQ", which uses an algorithm to create personalized video playlists for the viewer based on a number of factors, including their porn preferences, the time of day they're visiting the website, what part of the world they live in and the amount of time the viewer has to watch the video(s).[21][22] David Holmes of PandoDaily noted that Pornhub's data-intensive approach to playlists set it apart from previous attempts at user-generated playlists, and marked a new trend in the switch from content searching to passive curation among Web 2.0 websites.[22]
As of 2009, three of the largest pornographic sites "RedTube, YouPorn and PornHub—collectively make up 100 million unique visitors".[23]
In June 2015, Pornhub announced that it was going to make a pornographic film featuring real-life sex in space, named Sexplorations. The site hoped to launch the mission and shoot the movie in 2016, covering the pre- and post-production costs itself but seeking $3.4 million from IndieGogo crowdfunders. If funded, the film would have been slated for a 2016 release, following six months of training for the two performers and six-person crew.[24][25]
On 1 February 2016, Pornhub launched an online casino, powered by Betsoft, Endorphina and 1x2 gaming software.[26]
In October 2017, vice president Corey Price announced that Pornhub would use computer vision and artificial intelligence software to identify and tag videos on the website with information about the performers and sex acts. Price said the company planned to scan its entire library beginning in early 2018.[27][28]
On 17 April 2018, the site began accepting Verge cryptocurrency as a payment option.[29]
In December 2020, following a column in The New York Times by Nicholas Kristof that was critical of the company,[30] payment processors Mastercard and Visa cut their services to Pornhub. Pornhub then removed all videos by unverified users.[31]
Non-consensual pornography
See also: Child pornography and Rape pornography
Pornhub employs Vobile to search for uploads of banned videos to remove them from the site,[8] and non-consensual content or personally identifiable information present on Pornhub can be reported to the company via an online form.[32] Pornhub has been criticized for its response to non-consensual pornography and sex trafficking.[8] Journalists at Vice commented that Pornhub profits from "content that's destroyed lives, and continues to do harm".[9][33] Slate said that the move reflected a larger trend of Internet platforms using verification to classify sources.[34]
In 2009, a 14-year-old girl was gang raped at knifepoint and claims the videos were uploaded to Pornhub. The girl stated that she emailed Pornhub repeatedly over a period of six months, but received no reply. After she impersonated a lawyer, the videos were removed.[8] Another case in October 2019 involved a man who faces charges of lewd and lascivious battery of a 15-year-old girl, videos of which were discovered on Pornhub, Modelhub, Periscope, and Snapchat that led to his arrest.[35] The UK based activist group Not Your Porn was founded by the friend of a woman whose iCloud storage had been hacked, leading to the hacker posting sexually explicit photos and videos on Pornhub alongside her full name. Pornhub removed the video when reported, but clones of the video using her full name replicated faster than the videos were removed. The woman found that "the fractured communication system at Pornhub has meant this has become an increasingly excruciating process". The founder of Not Your Porn reported that fifty women contacted her over a six-month period about non-consensual online pornography featuring them, thirty of whom reported that the videos were uploaded to Pornhub.[8][36]
In 2019, the official GirlsDoPorn channel, verified by Pornhub, was removed from the site. It was the 20th-largest channel on the website. On 10 October 2019, the two owners of GirlsDoPorn along with two employees were arrested on three counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion, after a civil lawsuit filed in July.[37] The channel was removed a week afterwards, which journalists at Daily Dot and Motherboard said was a slow response to the incident.[10][11] Additionally, the videos could still be found afterwards unofficially on Pornhub's website.[8][9]
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) found 118 instances of child sexual abuse material on Pornhub between 2017 and 2019.[38] Pornhub rapidly removed this content.[39] An IWF spokesperson said that other social networks and communication tools posed more of an issue than Pornhub in regard to this type of content.[39] In 2020, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children reported that over 20 million reports of child sexual abuse material related to content on Facebook, accounting for 95% of total reports, and that Pornhub and other MindGeek sites were the subject of only 13,000 reports.[40]
In response to abusive content on the site, an online petition calling for the shutdown of Pornhub gained over one million signatures throughout 2020.[41][42] The petition was started by Laila Mickelwait,[43] Director of Abolition at Exodus Cry, a Christian anti-trafficking and anti-sex work non-profit,[44] and was addressed to the executives of MindGeek, the parent company of Pornhub. The petition notes numerous instances of non-consensual and child abuse material on the website, including a child trafficking victim who was made a "verified model" by the site.[45] In response to the petition, Pornhub claimed they were committed to removing such material from the site.[46][47][48]
In December 2020, Nicholas Kristof's opinion column in The New York Times described Pornhub as a company which "monetizes child rapes, revenge pornography, spy cam videos of women showering, racist and misogynist content, and footage of women being asphyxiated in plastic bags."[49] In response to the column, Pornhub announced it would prevent video uploads from unverified users and would disable video downloads.[50] Visa and Mastercard also announced they would review their financial ties to Pornhub.[51][52][53] On 10 December 2020, Mastercard and Visa blocked use of their cards on Pornhub.[54][55][56] Pornhub told the New York Times that these claims were "irresponsible and flagrantly untrue".[57] Performer Siri Dahl criticized that the victims of Visa and Mastercard's actions were pornographic performers, while Pornhub continued to make most of its money through banner ads.[58]
On 14 December 2020, Pornhub announced that all videos posted by unverified users had been removed from public access "pending verification and review".[59][60] This reduced the number of videos on the website from 13 million to 4 million.[14] In Brazil, according to Clayton Nunes, CEO of Brasileirinhas, the result of this action showed that the people who upload non-consensual pornography to Pornhub are the same people who upload pirated pornography.[61]
In December 2020, MindGeek, Pornhub's parent company was sued in California for hosting non-consensual videos produced by GirlsDoPorn, which coerced women into appearing in their videos under false pretenses. In January 2021, a class action lawsuit making similar claims was launched in Montreal. The Canadian proposed class action sought $600 million for anyone who had intimate photos and videos, some of which may have been taken when they were underage, shared on MindGeek's sites without their consent, since 2007.[62] In June 2021, 34 women sued MindGeek in federal court in California, alleging that the company had exploited them and hosted and promoted videos that depicted rape, revenge porn, and child sexual abuse.[63]
In the wake of these controversies, Vice has reported that individuals tied to far-right and Christian fundamentalist groups, which claim to be anti-trafficking and anti-pornography activists, have disseminated disinformation and made death threats towards Pornhub's staff and sex workers.[64]
A 2023 documentary, Money Shot: The Pornhub Story, covers the opposition to Pornhub and the views of pornographic performers. It interviews Kristof, a lawyer representing women suing MindGeek and a spokesperson to the anti-sex-trafficking group National Center on Sexual Exploitation.[58]
In 2023 a tool developed by Meta Platforms—Take It Down—was released. Participating platforms—including Pornhub—agree to remove non-consensual images or videos that users flag with the tool. Also participating are OnlyFans, Facebook, Yubo, and Instagram. The program relies on users uploading hashes of images and cannot identify edited versions of the image.[65]
Non-pornographic content
Pornhub users have often uploaded non-pornographic content to the site, including posts of Hollywood films (under the belief that copyright holders would be less likely to look for uploads on Pornhub than on a mainstream video sharing service such as YouTube), to monetize content deemed ineligible for monetization on YouTube, or as memes and jokes. These videos often have double entendre titles resembling porn films, such as a pirated recording of the musical Hamilton listed as "Revolutionary Boys Get Dirty on American Politics",[66] a clip from the animated film Puss in Boots listed as "Hardcore Pussy Gets Wrecked",[67] highlight compilations of esports events tagged as a "gangbang",[68] and Ryan Creamer videos, which feature comedic videos with sexual titles.[69]
In March 2020, Pornhub premiered Leilah Weinraub's documentary Shakedown, which chronicles a black lesbian strip club of the same name in Los Angeles. The film streamed on the service throughout March, before being released via Criterion Channel. Brand director Alex Klein stated that the film's premiere on Pornhub was part of "a larger general commitment Pornhub has to supporting the arts."[70]
Copyright infringement claims
In 2010, Mansef Inc. and Interhub, the then-owners of Pornhub, were sued by the copyright holding company of the pornographic film production company Pink Visual, Ventura Content, for the copyright infringement of 95 videos on websites, including Pornhub, Keezmovies, Extremetube, and Tube8.[71] According to Ventura Content, the 45 videos were streamed "tens of millions of times"[72] and they claimed the piracy threatened the "entire adult entertainment industry".[73] The suit was settled in October 2010, with terms that remain confidential. The parties agreed that the site operators would implement digital fingerprint filtering on their sites.[74] Porn 2.0 sites such as these are seen as posing notable competition for paid pornographic websites and traditional magazine and DVD-based pornography.[75][76][77]
In July 2021, Pornhub launched Classic Nudes, an interactive guide of classic art from major institutions, as a means to help museums recover from the financial toll of the pandemic. However, The Louvre, Uffizi Gallery, and Museo del Prado sued Pornhub for copyright infringement, claiming that the museums had never "granted authorizations for the operation or use of the art."[78][79][80]
Malvertising
Further information: Malvertising
In 2014, researcher Conrad Longmore found that advertisements displayed by the sites contained malware programs, which install harmful files on users' machines without their permission. Longmore told the BBC that of pornography websites, Pornhub and XHamster pose the greatest threat.[81]
In 2017, security firm Proofpoint discovered malicious ads running on the site that had the potential to install override software on users' PCs. The ads had been promoted on the site for over a year without intervention from Pornhub.[82]
Blocks and bans
In 2011, European broadband provider TalkTalk (formerly Tiscali) received some criticism because its internet filter failed to block Pornhub, for over a week. This was due to the issue of child internet safety.[3]
In January 2013, The Huffington Post commented that CBS "refused to air a short commercial for adult-themed site Pornhub during the Super Bowl on Sunday ... . The 20-second spot, which features an older couple sitting on a park bench (that's really all that happens), includes no explicit content."[115] It was rejected because the Federal Communications Commission could hold CBS liable for endorsing pornographic content, as it is illegal to air pornography on US television.[115]
In September 2013, the website was blocked by the Great Firewall in China.[116]
On 12 March 2014, Pornhub was blocked in Russia because one actress looked too young, leading some viewers to think she was a minor.[117][118]
In September 2016, the site was blocked in Russia due to "spreading harmful information to children", and reinstated in April 2017 after specifying the age of users. The site requires Russian users to authenticate themselves via the social network VK.[119][120]
In January 2017, the Government of the Philippines blocked internet users from accessing Pornhub and other pornography websites. The websites were blocked pursuant to Republic Act 9775 or the Anti-Child Pornography Law, which prohibits websites from hosting child pornography content.[121]
In October 2018, the Uttarakhand High Court reinstated a ban on Pornhub in India but made it optional for ISPs to leave sites that are free of child pornography unblocked.[122] In order to circumvent the ban,[122][123] Pornhub established a mirror website at Pornhub.net.[124][125]
In November 2020, the government of Thailand blocked Pornhub, amongst other pornography websites.[126]
On September 3, 2022, Instagram banned the website's Instagram account indefinitely. It had 13 million followers and posted non-pornographic material. The ban was lobbied for by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation and others.[127]
On December 16, 2022, Pornhub's YouTube account was taken down, only a few days after they were removed from TikTok.[128][129][1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pornhub