'The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said it investigated some 5 million suspected child pornography videos in 2021'. What a horrific job that must be. Makes me sick, poor kids.
A federal judge ruled Friday that Visa helped Pornhub “monetize child porn” and sex trafficking — a decision that could have long-lasting implications for credit card companies, legal observers say.
The court denied Visa’s motion to be dropped from a lawsuit against porn parent company MindGeek, ruling there was enough evidence to show the company “knowingly provid[ed] the tool used to complete the crime” of distributing child pornography.
The decision was made in connection with a suit filed by a woman who claims Pornhub dragged its heels after she warned it was hosting an explicit video taken of her when she was 13 — at one point requiring photographic evidence that she was the same child in the video.
After several weeks, the clip, entitled “13-Year Old Brunette Shows Off For the Camera,” was taken down but reuploaded on other MindGeek sites in 2014, garnering millions of views and earning the company advertising money facilitated by Visa, the victim alleged. The illicit clip was still on the company’s sites as recently as 2020, according to the suit.
Interesting. Not seeing how Visa's involved yet.
It also shot down Visa’s argument that it was an innocent third party, saying the credit card company briefly suspended its ties to Pornhub in 2020 amid allegations it housed thousands of illegal videos before joining forces again.
Allegations don't mean shit anymore (#MeToo). What did they actually find? If nothing then Visa had better go after PornHub for misleading them during the course of business. If they found something and covered it up alongside PornHub? Free woodchipper rides for *everyone* involved.
Bear in mind this case also has the potential to set court precedent, particularly since it's in California, which is trying to dismantle gun companies by way of legal costs. Don't think the state won't lean on CC companies to get them to drop gun companies/stores.
I suppose the proper way to go would be to nab any specific employees who were doing dirty shit, if indeed dirty shit went down.
Comparing the Visa case to gun sellers, I guess if a seller of guns continued to sell guns and ammo to individuals who they KNEW were using these items to kill innocents and kept selling to him anyway, it seems clear to me that that seller is guilty, too.
'The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children said it investigated some 5 million suspected child pornography videos in 2021'. What a horrific job that must be. Makes me sick, poor kids.
Interesting. Not seeing how Visa's involved yet.
Allegations don't mean shit anymore (#MeToo). What did they actually find? If nothing then Visa had better go after PornHub for misleading them during the course of business. If they found something and covered it up alongside PornHub? Free woodchipper rides for *everyone* involved.
Bear in mind this case also has the potential to set court precedent, particularly since it's in California, which is trying to dismantle gun companies by way of legal costs. Don't think the state won't lean on CC companies to get them to drop gun companies/stores.
I suppose the proper way to go would be to nab any specific employees who were doing dirty shit, if indeed dirty shit went down.
Good followup, thank you.
It's California. They'll do it.
No retreat, No surrender! Everyone at Visa who knew should do time!
How bout they just stop processing porn billing.
Weird what happens to deplatformed and debanked and what doesn’t.