Juno News - December 15, 2020


Will our ＂feminist＂ government do anything about PornHub？


Episode Stats

Length

5 minutes

Words per Minute

127.24393

Word Count

723

Sentence Count

29

Misogynist Sentences

1


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 An explosive article released by the New York Times disseminated devastating revelations that
00:00:10.600 have been the lived realities of many survivors of sexual assault and abuse, which have been put
00:00:16.960 on full display on the pornographic website Pornhub, which is based out of Montreal and
00:00:22.760 owned by MindGeek. Although Pornhub puts on a cheeky front, it promotes and monetizes videos
00:00:29.400 of individuals being raped, child sexual assault, footage from spy cameras, revenge porn, and
00:00:36.200 amongst a slew of other disturbing material, women being asphyxiated in plastic bags. The article
00:00:43.980 revealed that in a search on Pornhub's website for girls under 18 or 14YO, it leads to more than
00:00:50.720 100,000 videos, not all containing footage of children being assaulted, but far too many do.
00:00:57.560 Pornhub has recently offered playlists with names including Less Than 18, The Best Collection
00:01:04.220 of Young Boys, and Under Hyphen Hyphen Age. Detailed accounts of teenage girls whose assault was
00:01:10.700 uploaded onto Pornhub has resulted in their offenders being arrested, but somehow Pornhub
00:01:16.480 escaping accountability. Now, Pornhub is like YouTube, but unlike YouTube, Pornhub allows
00:01:22.420 videos containing rape and child sexual assault to be downloaded directly from its website.
00:01:28.360 So even if a rape video is removed at the request of authorities, it may already be too late.
00:01:34.680 The video lives on as it is shared with others or re-uploaded again and again to Pornhub.
00:01:41.960 One testimony is of a woman named Callie, who was adopted in the United States from China,
00:01:48.420 trafficked by her adoptive family and forced to appear in pornographic videos beginning at the
00:01:55.080 age of only nine. Now, 23. Callie says, Pornhub became my trafficker. I'm still getting sold,
00:02:03.600 even though I'm five years out of that life. All this isn't news to Canadian Member of Parliament,
00:02:09.780 Arnold Vearson, who has been working on this file for years. In March of 2020, Vearson sent a letter to
00:02:17.360 Prime Minister Trudeau urging him to address concerns over Pornhub. The letter stated,
00:02:23.120 each time these videos are viewed and many have hundreds of thousands of views, the victims are
00:02:30.100 re-victimized. This is deeply harmful to those exploited in these videos. The ability for Pornhub
00:02:37.360 and other companies online to publish this content and in some cases to profit off crimes committed
00:02:44.100 against children, victims of sex trafficking and sexual assault, is fundamentally contrary to any
00:02:51.140 efforts to increase gender equality in Canada and protect women and youth from sexual exploitation.
00:02:58.420 In the House of Commons, Conservative Member of Parliament Candace Bergen raised the issue of
00:03:04.500 Pornhub saying Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, has known about the issue since March,
00:03:10.100 when an all-party caucus asked him to help. Bergen stated,
00:03:14.580 why has the Prime Minister done nothing to stop a despicable practice that is victimizing young
00:03:20.740 girls and he is allowing it to happen right in his own backyard? Yet another letter was sent to
00:03:26.580 Justice Minister David Lamedi by MP Arnold Vearson, as well as MPs and senators from different parties,
00:03:34.020 calling upon the government to act. For a diverse coalition of Canadian members of Parliament to
00:03:39.300 receive no actionable feedback from Trudeau's self-proclaimed feminist government, even upon
00:03:45.460 the presentation of fact and testimony, as well as revelation of absolute human rights abuses,
00:03:52.260 displays an absolute lack of concern and empathy for the victims and survivors who abuse has been put on
00:03:59.860 global display. MasterCard and Visa have both stated that they will be blocking their customers from
00:04:06.740 using their credit cards to make purchases on the pornographic website amidst allegations that Pornhub
00:04:13.460 not only shows videos of child abuse and rape, but profits from them. For Visa and MasterCard to be
00:04:20.580 taking credible action in reviewing their dealings with Pornhub, yet Canada's government choosing to
00:04:26.340 project a dismissive attitude on the subject. It sends an insensitive and degrading statement to
00:04:33.300 all those who are continually affected by their abusers who share and profit from their very abuse being
00:04:40.500 circulated online. Pornhub is knowledgeable of many cases of rape and abuse that have been uploaded onto
00:04:48.180 their site and yet refuses to remove them. They must be held accountable for every case where they
00:04:56.100 continually share and profit from the absolute exploitation of individuals' violation of human rights.
00:05:04.180 The world is watching. The government of Canada must take action. For True North, I'm Matea Myrna.
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