Thread by @cagoldberglaw

We need to talk about the role of @Google in the victimization of the #GirlsDoPorn women.

Our firm repped about a dozen victims of GDP starting in 2016 in the civil case. We concurrently fought like hell for criminal action in CA State and federal. 🧵

news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/pornhub…

What happened in the scheme was that the women (usually 19-21) answered ads on Craigslist for bikini models. They would then get offered $3-5k to do a short session of tasteful porn for a rich Australian man's private porn collection.

The women would typically say no fricking way and that they have never and would never do porn. Then they would get an email from another woman who said she felt the same way but the money was so good and so easy and she got flown to a lux hotel in San Diego

and got her hair and make-up done and that it really was just for this one rich guy's personal collection. So the girls would relent. Except when they arrived, they'd be met by a couple guys and get negged and told they were nothing like their pic and too old/heavy/stretchmarkd

The money would be reduced by half. And they'd be given a contract to sign really fast, while somebody was rushing them. They'd never be given a copy of it. Then the misery would start. The shoot which was supposed to be an hour or two of missionary would instead be

hours and hours of hardcore sex, sometimes anal. Forced drinking. With many men watching on set. They'd miss their flight and have to stay over. Often forced to have sex w/ the camera guy and randos. When they finally returned to their hometowns, they'd thank god it was over.

Little did they know that in six weeks or so, the true fucking hell would begin. It would start with a couple weird emails and then links. And then a fucking avalanche of texts, calls, emails etc. Cuz turns out it would all get posted on Pornhub's GirlsDoPorn channel

Where there were legions of fans that would compete to dox the women. And by dox, I mean DOX -- post literally everything about them -- names, address, social media, younger siblings names, parents' place of work. My clients lost their jobs, dumped, were disowned, kicked out of

sororities. Their parents and child siblings were mercilessly harassed. The parent's co-workers would get links. It was inescapable and constant. Truly the most vicious online attack I'd ever seen and to this day ever will see.

But the worst was that these women's online reputations were DONE. If you typed their name into Google, page after page after page would go to the porn. At the time, Google had just created a revenge porn policy -- where revenge porn victims could get links to

nonconsensual porn removed from the search results if their name was typed into the search engine. Yet @Google refused to remove the content from the GDP victims search results. I personally worked with executives to explain why this needed to be removed.

I told them exactly about the scheme. I'd worked with Google on the revenge porn policy and knew the execs. I explained how my clients could not get new jobs, get into school, find anybody to date, or even get rented an apartment b/c of their google results.

I explained that these women's entire careers and futures were in shambles and they were in extreme emotional distress. Not just from the trauma from the shoots and the harassment but the hell that their google results meant their future was hopeless.

I explained that the images were crimes -- that in almost all cases, they'd been coerced, raped, extorted. I submitted my legal filings, under-oath statements to Google from my clients, explaining what happened, I proved to them that the cases were being investigated by state

and federal law enforcement. It was dozens of hours. Meanwhile my clients' lives were being ruined by the fucking trolls online who were harassing, stalking doxxing them. Finally google told me that they were not ever EVER going to consider this under their revenge porn policy

They said that internally they were calling this "Regret Porn." And that it was just too damn bad these girls regretted the decision they'd made.

Years later, of course, the world has decided that these were legit crimes. But i want to send a giant FUCK YOU to google

who could have helped. Who had all the information to help. Who had zero to lose by helping. and chose not to. Fuck you google.

If feds are going to say that Pornhub is federally liable for refusing to remove the content earlier, than the same ought to be true for Google. I've got loads of proof that google knew exactly the horrors of these women.

And Google was profiting as well.

God, i forgot how much i could hate google.

One more thing. I’ve kept in touch with some of these women. Several are addicts, got into abusive controlling relationships, never went back to college. Their lives did not normalize.