{"id":11441,"date":"2022-08-02T14:40:20","date_gmt":"2022-08-02T14:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/02\/visa-could-be-liable-for-helping-monetize-pornhub-videos-of-children-says-court\/"},"modified":"2022-08-02T14:40:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T14:40:21","slug":"visa-could-be-liable-for-helping-monetize-pornhub-videos-of-children-says-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/02\/visa-could-be-liable-for-helping-monetize-pornhub-videos-of-children-says-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Visa could be liable for helping monetize Pornhub videos of children, says court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/1\/23287036\/visa-mindgeek-pornhub-child-sexual-abuse-videos-court-liability\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/1\/23287036\/visa-mindgeek-pornhub-child-sexual-abuse-videos-court-liability<\/a><br \/>\n<code><br \/><\/br><\/code><\/p>\n<div readability=\"71.960990712074\">\n<p id=\"u4XpUC\">A California judge is allowing a lawsuit against Visa to proceed, saying the company plausibly knew porn site operator MindGeek was monetizing sexual videos involving children. <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.cacd.823614\/gov.uscourts.cacd.823614.166.0.pdf\">Judge Cormac Carney issued the ruling<\/a> late last week in <em>Serena Fleites v. MindGeek et al.<\/em>, rejecting Visa\u2019s attempts to dismiss its portion of the suit. Carney says Visa plausibly \u201cintended to help MindGeek monetize child porn\u201d because it continued to offer payment processing services to the major tube site Pornhub despite knowing the site had failed to moderate videos of minors.<\/p>\n<p id=\"Vq3DVT\">The ongoing lawsuit asserts that MindGeek, Visa, and others violated a series of laws including the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) and the California Unfair Competition Law (UCL). The claims stem from a sexually explicit video that was filmed and put on Pornhub featuring the plaintiff, who was a young teenager at the time. Despite being notified that the video was illegal, Pornhub allegedly delayed taking it down for weeks, allowing it to be repeatedly downloaded and reuploaded and earning ad revenue alongside it. Visa later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/12\/10\/22168240\/mastercard-ending-pornhub-payment-processing-unlawful-videos\">temporarily cut off Pornhub<\/a> following a <em>New York Times<\/em> report suggesting the platform had allowed illegal videos despite knowing it was hosting child sexual abuse material.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-float-right\">\n<aside id=\"PF1t55\"><q>\u201cVisa lent to MindGeek a much-needed tool &#8230; with the alleged knowledge that there was a wealth of monetized child porn\u201d<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p id=\"J2hJcT\">\u201cVisa lent to MindGeek a much-needed tool \u2014 its payment network \u2014 with the alleged knowledge that there was a wealth of monetized child porn on MindGeek\u2019s websites,\u201d writes Carney. The ruling notes that after <em>The New York Times <\/em>published its story on Pornhub and Visa suspended its account, MindGeek removed 10 million videos to assuage its concerns \u2014 suggesting that Visa could have pressured the company to moderate its content more carefully. \u201cVisa is not being asked to police \u2018the billions of individual transactions it processes each year,\u2019\u201d the order states. \u201cIt is simply being asked to refrain from offering the tool with which a known alleged criminal entity performs its crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"5CepTa\">The ruling attempts to differentiate Visa\u2019s conduct from other companies that indirectly work with Pornhub and MindGeek. It says Google, for instance, wouldn\u2019t necessarily face liability for letting Pornhub links appear in search results. \u201cVisa allegedly knowingly provided the very tool through which MindGeek committed its alleged crime of financially benefitting from child porn,\u201d Carney writes. \u201cEven if Google knows that its search engine is being used to drive traffic to a website allegedly teeming with child porn, and thereby indirectly helps that website financially benefit from its illicit content, it would not have provided a tool through which the crime is completed, unlike Visa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p id=\"ctjDpA\"><a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/digital\/news\/pornhub-visa-child-pornography-court-ruling-1235330052\/\">In a statement to <em>Variety<\/em><\/a>, Visa called the ruling \u201cdisappointing,\u201d saying it \u201cwill not tolerate the use of our network for illegal activity,\u201d but \u201cwe continue to believe that Visa is an improper defendant in this case.\u201d MindGeek noted that the case hasn\u2019t yet been argued on its merits \u2014 only on the theory that Visa <em>could <\/em>be held liable if the allegations are true.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><code><br \/><\/br><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/1\/23287036\/visa-mindgeek-pornhub-child-sexual-abuse-videos-court-liability\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2022\/8\/1\/23287036\/visa-mindgeek-pornhub-child-sexual-abuse-videos-court-liability<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: A California judge is allowing a lawsuit against Visa to proceed, saying the company plausibly knew porn site operator MindGeek was monetizing sexual videos involving children. Judge Cormac Carney issued the ruling late last week in Serena Fleites v. MindGeek et al., rejecting Visa\u2019s attempts to dismiss its portion of the suit. Carney says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,8],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-11441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-policy","category-technology","tag-policy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Visa could be liable for helping monetize Pornhub videos of children, says court - Science and Nerds<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/08\/02\/visa-could-be-liable-for-helping-monetize-pornhub-videos-of-children-says-court\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Visa could be liable for helping monetize Pornhub videos of children, says court - Science and Nerds\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Source: A California judge is allowing a lawsuit against Visa to proceed, saying the company plausibly knew porn site operator MindGeek was monetizing sexual videos involving children. 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