THREAD: Listening to the women whose rape videos were hosted by #Pornhub giving testimony before Canadian Parliament is both devastating and enraging.
These women and girls have suffered immeasurably because some men like to jerk off to the rape & abuse of women. #Traffickinghub
These women and girls have suffered immeasurably because some men like to jerk off to the rape & abuse of women. #Traffickinghub
In 2018 Victoria Galy found numerous non-consensual pornographic videos of herself, made by her ex, on Pornhub. She was clearly drugged or intoxicated. #Traffickinghub
She flagged them, nothing happened. She tried to report and the process was difficult. She reported 30 vids, only 3 were removed. Pornhub told her she needed to submit a DMCA Takedown notice, she didn't know what that was. #Traffickinghub
Pornhub wouldn't remove the videos as they had been claimed by a verified model. In desperation she sent a powerpoint presentation with photos of her body parts to prove it was her. #Traffickinghub
It was only after the NY Times article exposing Pornhub that the videos were temporarily suspended, but they were viewed 8 million times and are now all over the Internet and she will never get them removed. #Traffickinghub
Victoria now suffers from a dissociative condition, depression, PTSD and severe anxiety. She lost 20-30 pounds because she couldn't eat. After working hard to build her professional reputation, she left her career of 16 years because she could not function. She has been stalked.
"Pornhub has been my trafficker," she said. "The money Pornhub has made off my trauma...makes me sick to my stomach. I have never been so broken." #Traffickinghub
The next witness is known as 'Guest #1'. She recounts how she allowed her husband to take private photographs of her and later found they had been shared to porn sites like Pornhub. Then she found a video. #Traffickinghub
She had not known this video of her existed, she learned about it by watching it on Pornhub. In this video, she was unconscious and being raped by her husband. The words 'sleeping' and 'sleeping pills' were included in the title and tags. #Traffickinghub
Pornhub claims that moderators view and approve every single video uploaded to their site, so if this is true, Pornhub moderators approved the video of an unconscious woman being raped. It was active for 3 years before she discovered it. #Traffickinghub
Pornhub CEO Feras Antoon claims they don't want child abuse on the platform (bullshit) because it will lose them customers, but as the witness pointed out, viewers were actively searching it out. #Traffickinghub
“It is a profound betrayal to know that thousands of men saw your assault and not only did nothing to flag it, but actively sought it out and enjoyed it.” - Guest #1 #Traffickinghub
“The night I found my video, I also got to read a man describe in graphic physical detail just how much he enjoyed himself watching it." - Guest #1 #Traffickinghub
Googling the name of the video returns over 1900 hits. It has been downloaded and re-uploaded elsewhere. Mindgeek posted the video to their other porn sites to boost content. #Traffickinghub
Even though the video is gone from Pornhub now, the data including thumbnail (a naked image of her) remains. She has continued to appeal to Pornhub to remove it but "I think they're just ignoring me now." #Traffickinghub
Pornhub told her they can't remove her video from other sites, but as she points out, they do precisely that to remove their exclusive model content from other sites #Traffickinghub
"All I’m asking is that they pretend to care as much about their non consensual content as they do about their paid exclusive content." -Guest #1 #Traffickinghub
"Sexual assault is not an anomaly on the porn sites, it is a genre.” - Guest #1 #Traffickinghub
Listening to these women crying while describing how their lives have been shattered, it's impossible to accept the claim that porn is 'just a fantasy' or harmless fun. It is rape, abuse and male violence against women. It ruins women's lives. It destroys them #Traffickinghub
Nobody will ever convince me that the abuse of women that is pornography can be justified. Men's orgasms do not trump women's lives. #Traffickinghub
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