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40 victims of the Girls Do Porn sex trafficking operation are suing Pornhub's parent company for $40 million, alleging it knowingly profited from illegal videos

Pornhub's parent company MindGeek on Tuesday was hit with a lawsuit from 40 victims of the sex trafficking operation Girls Do Porn.

Pornhub is making sweeping changes to its platform, and on Monday started taking down millions of unverified videos. "As early as 2009, and definitely by fall 2016, MindGeek knew GirlsDoPorn was trafficking its victims by using fraud, coercion, and intimidation [...] Despite this knowledge, MindGeek continued to partner with GirlsDoPorn, never bothering to investigate or question its business partner regarding the mounting evidence of sex trafficking that MindGeek received," the suit alleged.

"I was told this video went to a private viewer, and now it is all over the internet. I was lied to, and this isn't okay," another plaintiff said in a 2016 message to MindGeek. A third plaintiff told MindGeek "me and other girls are being brutally harassed."Girls Do Porn videos even after victims started to come forward and be covered in the press in 2019, and the suit alleged the site still hasn't managed to boot all the videos off its service.

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Ban porno-hub and ban sex-trafficking

Like the girls that cheated on their significant other and not having the common decency to even change their clothes? Victims if they don't get paid right? 💰 💰 💰

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