No, not by a long shot will this bring down the behemoth.
According to yahoo news:
“More than 30 women sued Pornhub on Thursday, accusing it of violating federal sex trafficking laws, distributing child pornography, racketeering and other crimes.
The suit alleges that Pornhub’s parent company, MindGeek — and its constellation of porn brands — is a criminal enterprise that purchases, launders and uploads illegal content often obtained through human trafficking and sexual assault.”
Over the years I’ve heard my fair share of rumors about pornhub laundering money and illegal content. I’ve never been a fan of the user generated porn content. Especially when it’s policed by a community standards business model. Personally, I would have preferred to see a profit sharing approach with producers and production companies. When you deal directly with civilians, you’re going to be bullshit screwed over sooner or later. It appears now that controversy and law suits are fast becoming a business expense for Mindgeek.
In an era dominated by social justice warriors, it’s not a good time for porn professionals to fall under public scrutiny. All it’s going to take is one freaky colored hair Megan Rapinoe type to step forward with allegations that underage incest videos of her were uploaded to the Internet and all hell will break lose. Cable news will go bat shit crazy over the story, congress will call for a moment of silence and some razor company will manufacture a DIY cut off your dick kit to combat evil toxic masculinity. And you have to be a self-deluding fool if you don’t believe that those angry social justice warriors would purposely create and upload underage incest videos just to trap Pornhub.
I’m being a realistic bastard when I say that the social justice obsessed would go as far as to film themselves having sex with their own 8 year old child. Modern society not only is in the middle of a pandemic of mentally unstable crazies, but it’s also under assault by numerous power hungry self-righteous militant groups. Add to this a very dumbed down public, where anyone with common sense finds him/herself in the minority. Country singer Kenny Rogers sang, “know when to hold them… know when to fold them… know when to walk away and know when to run.” Well, if life is a poker game, these days anyone with a good brain is playing their cards very close to their chest.
Then again, I’m just one independent focused on how I’m going to navigate my stretch of the Mississippi river. Mindgeek has a lot more money, intellectual talent and contacts than I do. So maybe this lawsuit and all the previous problems are nothing more than the proverbial fly in the ointment to them. What I can say is that I’m no stranger to porn controversies and so I wish them the best.
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