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That case resulted in a $13 million verdict against the men earlier this month. I started the Justice Defense Fund in an effort to assist victims in their pursuit of healing and justice. One is public pressure initiatives where we’re trying to shine a light on injustice, specifically on corporate bad actors, like Pornhub, who are involved in the distribution of illegal and criminal content. We’re still waiting for criminal prosecution, not only for the company, but for its individual owners. There’s 26 lawsuits currently, on behalf of victims across the U.S., Canada and the U.K., multiple class-action lawsuits on behalf of tens of thousands of child victims, and so we’re in this process of trying to fight for justice and accountability. What kind of blew this all up was the realization that alongside pretend videos of children being raped were real videos of children being raped, and many times you couldn’t tell the difference, because they’re not verifying age and consent.

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Pornhub’s parent company has settled a lawsuit brought by 50 women who said they were victims of a sex-trafficking operation. This doesn’t mean GirlsDoPorn content has disappeared from the Web, however. GirlsDoPorn video clips remain readily available from other pornographic video sites. The last few months have been a disaster for the people behind the GirlsDoPorn website. Last summer saw the start of trial in a lawsuit 22 women filed against site owner Michael Pratt and two other men.

• But just to hear the way that these victims had the worst moments of their lives filmed.
• Indeed, justice is redeeming, it is necessary, and it is deeply healing for those who have been abused, but justice has not been fully served yet for these victims and their perpetrators.
• How could millennial women, living in an age where porn is almost exclusively viewed online, ever believe their own videos would never be posted on the Internet?
• Once they were in the room, Garcia ensured they felt they couldn’t leave.
• And so, as I began to continue to investigate that, I was trying to dig in to understand this intersection between the pornography industry and sex trafficking and these crimes and other harms.

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To start, it takes a thought-out criminal scheme where the perpetrators were dedicated to leaving no paper trail. But GirlsDoPorn’s successful manipulation was possible because large swaths of society still label women who participate in sex work as cultural pariahs. The GirlsDoPorn operators knew this, and they wagered the Does’ shame over appearing in porn would likely ensure these victims would not take the site’s management to task for this fraud.

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When victims asked to stop filming, Garcia and other co-conspirators told the victims that they had to keep going and finish the videos. Hotel room doors were often blocked by camera and recording equipment. Before the video shoots, Garcia offered victims marijuana or alcohol and some drank or smoked with Garcia before filming. In the complaint for damages against Mindgeek it was alleged that victims had sent the company “complaints detailing the fraud and coercion they were subject to by Girls Do Porn” but the company had not ended the partnership. The first court case on behalf of victims was lodged in June 2016. I felt like I never got used to hearing, and every situation was unique as well.

The ceremony will be broadcast on TV and streamed in digital format on NBC, Peacock and NBC Olympics. (NBC News shares a parent company with those entities, NBCUniversal). And I think the coconut tree clip is a perfect example of that,” said Rebecca Jennings, a senior correspondent at Vox covering internet culture. At that time, Pornhub was one of the most popular websites in the world, attracting billions of visits each month. Ultimately, though, the wild success of those viral GirlsDoPorn Internet videos is what led to the site team’s downfall. The Does were eventually able to find one another—and by doing so, they collectively found the strength to come forth and build a successful legal case against GirlsDoPorn.

All three men were involved in recruiting college students to shoot their first porn videos, and by and large they sought out women who were low-income and may have needed money for things like rent, books, and tuition. She locked herself in the bathroom while Wolfe and Garcia tried to coax her out. But soon after the incident, she was harassed at work—Jane Doe 7’s video had been posted online.

They were each seeking more than $1m (£739,000) in damages and had demanded a jury trial. The original lawsuit against MindGeek was filed in December last year, on behalf of 40 women plaintiffs. The company also suspended user-uploaded content in December 2020 following a separate set of allegations involving child abuse and rape-related videos. “The Parties reached a mutual resolution to resolve the dispute and the terms are confidential ,” Brian Holm, the lawyer who represented the women said in an emailed statement. The operators of GirlsDoPorn are in legal trouble because dozens of women say they were tricked and coerced into appearing in videos on the site. The site attracted women by telling them that their videos would only be sold on DVD to wealthy customers overseas and would never appear online.

SAN DIEGO – Matthew Isaac Wolfe was sentenced in federal court today to 14 years in prison for his role in a conspiracy with Michael Pratt, owner of the website… Garcia’s victims were coerced, defrauded and forced to participate in recorded sex acts, some of which were violent to the point of drawing blood. Ruben Andre Garcia was sentenced last week to 20 years in prison for participating in a sex trafficking scheme called GirlsDoPorn.

“MindGeek has zero tolerance for the posting of illegal content on its platforms, and has instituted a comprehensive, industry-leading trust and safety policy to identify and eradicate any illegal material from its community,” MindGeek said in a statement. Like all of us, the coconut tree moment exists in the context of all in which it lives and what came before it. Which is to say, it’s part of a larger set of memes surrounding Kamala Harris’ political persona. Harris has been spawning memes longer than she’s been vice president. But her laugh, her bus, her dance moves and her love of Venn diagrams have all become social media fodder.