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Civil Litigation

Feb. 23, 2021

PornHub accused of allowing child pornography on site

According to the lawsuit, MindGeek executives never put in place age verification protocols because they feared it would destroy their business.

PornHub's parent company MindGeek violated federal sex trafficking and child pornography laws by allowing the posting and profiting from thousands of pornographic videos featuring persons under 18 to be posted, a proposed class action alleges.

"Rather than address this horrifying and pervasive trend, for years, defendants took almost no action, refusing to so much as institute any semblance of an age-verification policy that would p...

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