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    MindGeek shutting down Xtube

    More good news from Laila Mickelwait of TraffickingHub. I'd actually call this a major win!!!


    Xtube porn site is shutting down in major win against MindGeek

    After being sent a tip, I was the first advocate to announce publicly that MindGeek, the parent company of Pornhub, is shutting down Xtube, one of their most prominent porn "tube" sites founded in 2006. MindGeek was trying to quietly and mysteriously let Xtube fade away, but something as significant as this was not going to stay hidden for long.

    Xtube was the first major porn site to allow users to upload their own videos. Now they are the first to be completely shut down due to the ongoing collective global effort to stop MindGeek's decade-long reign of distributing sexual crime scene footage for profit.

    In December, Pornhub, MindGeek's flagship site, was on the verge of a shutdown as they were forced to delete 80% of the site's content, totaling 10 million videos. This dramatic move came on the heels of MasterCard, Visa, and Discover cutting ties with the MindGeek due to confirming the presence of child sexual abuse and rape on Pornhub. Grant Thornton, PayPal, Heinz/Unilever, Comcast/Xfinity have also stopped doing business with Pornhub and MindGeek.

    On top of the financial strangulation of being cut off from credit card processors, six lawsuits have been filed against Pornhub in recent months on behalf of 97 victims, many of whom were underage when exploited for Pornhub's profit. The most significant of the lawsuits is a landmark case filed in June on behalf of 34 victims who sued Pornhub and MindGeek for racketeering, child pornography, sex trafficking, and more. Visa was also named as a defendant in the case for knowingly profiting from the abuse of the victims.

    Big things are happening. Let's keep the collective pressure on until justice has been fully served.

    Until We Prevail,

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    Here's the latest update from Trafficking Hub.



    NEWS: Xtube shuts down and Xhamster drastically changes business model

    MindGeek's site Xtube has now officially been shut down! Xtube was the first major free "porn tube" site on the Internet, and now, it is the first of MindGeek's sites to go dark completely. The most likely cause for the shutdown was the site being a financial drain and liability to the disgraced and financially crippled Big Porn company that is now being sued in six major lawsuits on behalf of 97 victims.

    On Tuesday, the Globe and Mail reported that MindGeek/Pornhub has been "bleeding money for the past nine months." Insider sources told the reporters that ​​"the company's revenue plummeted in 2021 because of the costs associated with defending the lawsuits, and a sharp drop in sales because users could no longer pay for content using MasterCard and Visa."
    My response?
    Good. If MindGeek bleeds long enough, it will eventually die, and that is the fate it deserves for a decade of enabling and profiting from the criminal sexual abuse of countless victims. This serves as a lesson to the other major Big Porn tube sites who have been operating in the same way.

    The evidence is showing that the impact of holding MindGeek accountable is having a domino effect throughout the industry. One of MindGeek's largest competitors, xHamster, recently upended their business model and began only allowing age and ID-verified uploads, including requiring the ID verification of all individuals in all videos. This significant change to xHamster's business model and policies further proves that holding the largest company in Big Porn, MindGeek, accountable will impact the entire industry, helping to halt image-based sexual abuse for generations to come.
    Let's keep fighting because we are making progress!


    Until We Prevail,
    Laila Mickelwait

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