Co-Founder/CEO, Justice Defense Fund | Founder, Traffickinghub | Author of National Bestseller, Takedown (Penguin, 2024) https://xitter.cf/t.co/IesBguWT2s
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Go inside the fight and uncover the dark secrets of a p*rn empire. TAKEDOWN reveals the never-before-told inside story of how P*rnhub was exposed for enabling and profiting from countless videos of child rape and trafficking.
But the fight for justice isn’t over yet...
Laila Mickelwait retweeted
“The real sexual revolution is going to be holding abusers accountable.”
—KS Prior
Laila Mickelwait retweeted
A Canadian judge authorized a $600 million class action lawsuit against P*rnhub, its parent company, AND ITS FORMER OWNERS Feras Antoon and David Tassillo for knowingly distributing and profiting from child abuse, rape, sex trafficking and nonconsensual content.
This is very significant progress in the fight to hold P*rnhub and its owners accountable.
Shut. It. Down.
A Canadian judge authorized a $600 million class action lawsuit against P*rnhub, its parent company, AND ITS FORMER OWNERS Feras Antoon and David Tassillo for knowingly distributing and profiting from child abuse, rape, sex trafficking and nonconsensual content.
This is very significant progress in the fight to hold P*rnhub and its owners accountable.
Shut. It. Down.
Criminal justice must be served. These e-mails between the CEO/Owner of P*rnhub/MindGeek and his executive team were uncovered in lawsuit discovery and made available to the public in redacted form.
This is the CEO/Owner discussing the fact that:
1. The official P*rnhub policy was to only review a video if it had over 15 user flags, including for criminal content.
2. There was a backlog of 706,000 flagged videos.
3. They had ONE person working only 5 days a week to review flagged videos.
This was not an accident, it was a system the CEO called “good and reasonable.”
Rape, trafficking and child abuse victims trying to take down criminal videos would regularly be ignored and stonewalled as their abuse continued to generate profit.
This is a small sample of the mountains of evidence of the complicity of PH and its owners in the abuse of countless victims.
The company and its owners should face full, proper, criminal prosecution to vindicate victims and deter future abusers.
Laila Mickelwait retweeted
Cornell University was also an early investor in the P*rnhub rape and trafficking crime scene.
Laila Mickelwait retweeted
Student journalists rock. Most people moved on from the 2024 report of a terrible rape at Cornell, but the @cornellsun wouldn't let go and pushed for accountability. nytimes.com/2026/09/29/nyreg… by @emmabgo
Some would be shocked to find out that child marriage is still legal in 32 US states.
We should abolish this practice globally in order to protect children from exploitation.
A video of a child or adult being raped is not pornography; it’s a filmed crime scene. When that crime scene footage is monetized online, it also becomes tech-facilitated sex trafficking, because commercialization is what turns rape into trafficking.
Laila Mickelwait retweeted
Take action today 🙏⚖️ nmvalliance.quorum.us/campai…
Trey Carlock, the namesake of TREY’S Law, was a victim of child sexual abuse at Kanakuk Kamps based in Branson, Missouri. After his abuser was sentenced to three life terms, Trey pursued justice to hold others accountable through civil litigation. That retraumatizing process ended with a settlement agreement that included a restrictive NDA, barring Trey from ever speaking about his abuse. At the age of 28, Trey died by suicide after telling a therapist, “they will always control me, and I’ll never be free.”
We now carry the fight for justice in Trey's honor and stand with child sexual abuse survivors nationwide.
#TreysLaw is legislation that ends the misuse of NDAs against child sexual abuse, assault and trafficking survivors in civil settlement agreements.
Seven states have already enacted this bipartisan legislation. Victims' voices hold the truth. But at this time, a survivor’s freedom of speech depends on the ZIP code where they were abused. This law is urgent and needs to apply NATIONWIDE.
📣 Please take action to contact your U.S. Representative and urge them to support TREY'S Law (S.3966/H.R.8571) as an urgent matter of public safety: nmvalliance.quorum.us/campai…
#TruthSetFree #NDAFree #StandWithSurvivors #NoMoreVictims
A man in his 60s will go on trial this week in the UK for drugging and raping his wife for two decades and distributing nonconsensual recordings of her. A dozen other men are on trial with him for participating in the abuse. He pleaded guilty to 15 counts.
Lock them up!
Full report: cnn.com/2026/09/01/uk/uk-man…
P*rnhub has agreed to pay child victims $120 million to settle two U.S. class action lawsuits.
But accountability is not over.
P*rnhub still faces a class-action in Canada, a suit in Ireland, and 20 U.S. lawsuits on behalf of 90 named victims of child abuse and trafficking.
CITATIONS:
Fleites + 14 related victim suits:
Fleites v. MindGeek S.A.R.L., No. 2:21-cv-04920 (C.D. Cal.); K.A., 2:24-cv-04786; N.L., 2:24-cv-04788; L.T., 2:24-cv-04791; T.C., 2:24-cv-04795; X.N., 2:24-cv-04800; N.Y., 2:24-cv-04801; J.C., 2:24-cv-04971; W.L., 2:24-cv-04977; C.S., 2:24-cv-04992; S.O., 2:24-cv-04998; L.S., 2:24-cv-05026; W.P., 2:24-cv-05185; A.K., 2:24-cv-05190; J.L., 2:24-cv-07046 (C.D. Cal.).
GirlsDoPorn:
Jane Doe Nos. 60–121 v. Aylo Media S.A.R.L., No. 3:23-cv-01821 (S.D. Cal.) — 62 victims.
Jane Doe f/k/a Kristy Althaus v. Aylo Global Entertainment Inc., No. 2:23-cv-07488 (C.D. Cal.).
Colorado:
Doe I & Doe II v. 9219-1568 Quebec, Inc., No. 1:25-cv-01891 (D. Colo.) — 2 victims.
South Carolina:
Jane Does 1–9 v. Hammy Media Ltd., No. 7:20-cv-00947 (D.S.C.), appeal No. 25-2411 (4th Cir.).
Jane Doe v. MG Freesites Ltd., No. 7:21-cv-03193 (D.S.C.), appeal No. 25-2418 (4th Cir.).