Pornhub exposed

Jo Bartosch

IN DECEMBER 2020, PORNHUB, THE WORLD’S largest provider of free pornography and the tenth most visited website in the world, was effectively castrated by a middle-aged American mum. Armed with nothing but a laptop and a working moral compass, activist Laila Mickelwait forced the site to remove 80 per cent of its content. Takedown is the story of how she did it. Part memoir, part gripping crime thriller, Takedown describes in forensic detail how Micklewait forced Pornhub to admit it had been knowingly profiting — along with some of the world’s biggest payment providers including Mastercard and Visa — from child abuse, rape and human trafficking. Mickelwait’s crusade against Pornhub was not sparked by reading Andrea Dworkin; she is no strident women’s liberationist. A Christian, she recalls wanting to follow…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2024

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