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> When MindGeek decides to monetize child porn, and Visa decides to continue to allow its payment network to be used for that goal despite knowledge of MindGeek
by sofixa 4y ago
> When MindGeek decides to monetize child porn, and Visa decides to continue to allow its payment network to be used for that goal despite knowledge of MindGeek’s monetization of child porn, it is entirely foreseeable that victims of child porn like plaintiff will suffer the harms that plaintiff alleges
Isn't that on extremely flakey ground? Mindgeek is a legitimate business, they probably didn't "decide to monetize child porn" - they're based in Canada and that would mean jail time for a bunch of people from the company.
It's pretty sad that the whole legitimateporn industry, worldwide, is ruled based on what two US-based payment companies decide, and that is defined based on what they fear they might be sued for. It shouldn't be a free for all with child porn and bestiality and etc. but as long as all participants are consenting human adults, who cares and why?
- AndrewDucker 4y agoThey certainly had monetised videos which they hadn't invested nearly enough effort into checking weren't of minors: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opinion/sunday/pornhub-rape-trafficking.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/opinion/sunday/pornhub-ra...
- sofixa 4y ago"not doing enough to combat" and actively deciding to monetise child porn aren't really the same thing.
- AndrewDucker 4y ago"We're going to allow people to upload porn, and we're not going to check whether the people in videos titled 'thirteen' are adults." is actively deciding to monetise child porn.
- ETH_start 4y agoWe have no idea what they knew (did it even occur to them that CP would be blatantly labelled as such?), nor what they intended.
- yucky 4y agoAs the other comment pointed out the obvious, that Mindgeek allowed user generated content, specifically to monetize it, and didn't have proper safeguards in place to check it, then yes of course they facilitated it. >as long as all participants are consenting human adults, who cares and why? This brings up an interesting question - is porn a net positive or net negative for society?
- purple12 4y ago
- orange15 4y ago