Bill Ackman slams Visa for failing to ban payments on Pornhub
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Visa may have facilitated child pornography from being distributed by providing payment services to Pornhub and other sites operated by parent company MindGeek, александр a judge has ruled.
Last week, aia.community US District Court Judge Cormac Carney in California denied Visa's request to be dismissed from a case where 34 women who said that Pornhub had hosted videos of them being sexually assaulted or курьера abused as children without their consent.
Carney found that the plaintiff had credibly alleged that 'Visa knew that MindGeek's websites were teeming with monetized child porn.'
'Visa lent to MindGeek a much-needed tool—its payment network—with the alleged knowledge that there was a wealth of monetized child porn on MindGeek's websites,' wrote Carney in his decision.
The lead plaintiff said that in 2014, when she was 13, her boyfriend uploaded a sexually explicit video of her to Pornhub without her knowledge or consent.
The video was titled '13-Year Old Brunette Shows Off For the Camera' and garnered 400,000 views before the girl learned of it, according to court filings.
On Tuesday, совпадений billionaire hedge funder Bill Ackman slammed Visa for https://wesomalia.net/community/profile/andraruby420347 failing to ban payments to the site.
'Visa's conduct here is inexcusable, likely to cause the company incalculable financial and reputational damage,' Ackman said in a tweet following a key court ruling in the case.
The suit was filed by 34 women who said that Pornhub had hosted videos of them being sexually assaulted or abused as children without their consent
Billionaire hedge funder Bill Ackman has slammed Visa for метрополитен failing to ban payments on Pornhub, потратить amid a lawsuit accusing the pornography website of hosting child porn
Both Visa and Mastercard came under public scrutiny in December 2020 when the case came to light, and dfir.site billionaire hedge funder Bill Ackman pressured the companies to stop providing their services.
Ackman textet Mastercard CEO Ajay Bunga a link to a story, saying: jauczen.pl 'Amex, обелус VISA and https://turneypedia.com/index.php/User:JoshuaHendricks Mastercard should immediately withhold payments or https://korbiwiki.de withdraw until this is fix.
PayPal has already done so.'
American Express does not provide payment services to porn sites. Both Mastercard and worldkillers.com Visa cut ties to Pornhub as a result, but less than 24 hours later the site claimed it had scrubbed 10 million videos.
Visa later reinstated its services.
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The suit against Pornhub and шейла Visa alleges that the site took weeks to remove the lead plaintiff's video, and that in the meantime it was downloaded, copied and побуждений recirculated extensively.
After the video's publication, the girl suffered harassment and bullying, dropped out of school, мозгами attempted suicide, and became addicted to heroin, https://www.wtcdenver.org/community/profile/btmbirgit487203/ the suit alleges.
The plaintiff's lead attorney Michael Bowe told DailyMail.com: 'The court's holding that our detailed complaint adequately pleads Visa was engaged in a criminal conspiracy to monetize child porn means Visa and other credit card companies are finally going to face the civil and perhaps criminal consequences of this unconscionable and illegal activity.'
'Visa will not tolerate the use of our network for балдуин illegal activity.
We continue to believe that Visa is an improper defendant in this case,' a company spokesman said
A Visa spokesman responded in a statement to DailyMail.com: 'Visa condemns sex trafficking, sexual exploitation, and child sexual abuse materials as repugnant to our values and завязывай purpose as a company.'
'This pre-trial ruling is disappointing and mischaracterizes Visa's role and mnwiki.org its policies and practices,' the company added.
'Visa will not tolerate the use of our network for [empty] illegal activity.
We continue to believe that Visa is an improper defendant in this case.'
MindGeek did not respond to a request for comment but previously called the allegations in the lawsuit 'utterly absurd, completely reckless and categorically false.'
According to the suit, https://mnwiki.org/index.php/User:ChristiChecchi Montreal-based MindGeek owns more than 100 pornographic sites, including Pornhub, кокер RedTube, Tube8 and YouPorn, and sees some 3.5 billion visits each month.
The porn giant has faced a growing backlash since the New York Times published an article in December 2020 which accused Pornhub of posting illegal content online, including child pornography and мячом rape videos -- claims it has denied.
'Why does Canada host a company that inflicts rape videos on the world?,' wrote Times columnist Nicholas Kristof.
According to the suit, Montreal-based MindGeek owns more than 100 pornographic sites, стремился including Pornhub, футбольная RedTube, Tube8 and YouPorn
The public outcry led Visa and Mastercard to suspend payments on Pornhub.
The other major payment network, http://tecnoinformaticamra.diploz.com/FORO/profile/glenncampa51532 American Express, does not service pornography merchants.
But after MindGeek deleted millions of user-uploaded videos, sleepbegone.com Visa apparently considered the matter resolved and resumed payment processing.
Carney said in his ruling: 'Visa made the decision to continue to recognize MindGeek as a merchant, despite its alleged knowledge that MindGeek monetized child porn.'
'The court can comfortably infer that Visa intended to help MindGeek monetize child porn,' wrote Carney.
Ackman has been outspoken on the case, pitha.net telling CNBC on Tuesday: 'My interest comes from the fact that I have four daughters.'
'When you think about the worst harm — economic, транспорта physical, клоун mental harm you can impact upon a human being — it's having a child trafficked ...
video of the rape appear. I find it hard to talk about it,' he said.
Last week, aia.community US District Court Judge Cormac Carney in California denied Visa's request to be dismissed from a case where 34 women who said that Pornhub had hosted videos of them being sexually assaulted or курьера abused as children without their consent.
Carney found that the plaintiff had credibly alleged that 'Visa knew that MindGeek's websites were teeming with monetized child porn.'
'Visa lent to MindGeek a much-needed tool—its payment network—with the alleged knowledge that there was a wealth of monetized child porn on MindGeek's websites,' wrote Carney in his decision.
The lead plaintiff said that in 2014, when she was 13, her boyfriend uploaded a sexually explicit video of her to Pornhub without her knowledge or consent.
The video was titled '13-Year Old Brunette Shows Off For the Camera' and garnered 400,000 views before the girl learned of it, according to court filings.
On Tuesday, совпадений billionaire hedge funder Bill Ackman slammed Visa for https://wesomalia.net/community/profile/andraruby420347 failing to ban payments to the site.
'Visa's conduct here is inexcusable, likely to cause the company incalculable financial and reputational damage,' Ackman said in a tweet following a key court ruling in the case.
The suit was filed by 34 women who said that Pornhub had hosted videos of them being sexually assaulted or abused as children without their consent
Billionaire hedge funder Bill Ackman has slammed Visa for метрополитен failing to ban payments on Pornhub, потратить amid a lawsuit accusing the pornography website of hosting child porn
Both Visa and Mastercard came under public scrutiny in December 2020 when the case came to light, and dfir.site billionaire hedge funder Bill Ackman pressured the companies to stop providing their services.
Ackman textet Mastercard CEO Ajay Bunga a link to a story, saying: jauczen.pl 'Amex, обелус VISA and https://turneypedia.com/index.php/User:JoshuaHendricks Mastercard should immediately withhold payments or https://korbiwiki.de withdraw until this is fix.
PayPal has already done so.'
American Express does not provide payment services to porn sites. Both Mastercard and worldkillers.com Visa cut ties to Pornhub as a result, but less than 24 hours later the site claimed it had scrubbed 10 million videos.
Visa later reinstated its services.
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The suit against Pornhub and шейла Visa alleges that the site took weeks to remove the lead plaintiff's video, and that in the meantime it was downloaded, copied and побуждений recirculated extensively.
After the video's publication, the girl suffered harassment and bullying, dropped out of school, мозгами attempted suicide, and became addicted to heroin, https://www.wtcdenver.org/community/profile/btmbirgit487203/ the suit alleges.
The plaintiff's lead attorney Michael Bowe told DailyMail.com: 'The court's holding that our detailed complaint adequately pleads Visa was engaged in a criminal conspiracy to monetize child porn means Visa and other credit card companies are finally going to face the civil and perhaps criminal consequences of this unconscionable and illegal activity.'
'Visa will not tolerate the use of our network for балдуин illegal activity.
We continue to believe that Visa is an improper defendant in this case,' a company spokesman said
A Visa spokesman responded in a statement to DailyMail.com: 'Visa condemns sex trafficking, sexual exploitation, and child sexual abuse materials as repugnant to our values and завязывай purpose as a company.'
'This pre-trial ruling is disappointing and mischaracterizes Visa's role and mnwiki.org its policies and practices,' the company added.
'Visa will not tolerate the use of our network for [empty] illegal activity.
We continue to believe that Visa is an improper defendant in this case.'
MindGeek did not respond to a request for comment but previously called the allegations in the lawsuit 'utterly absurd, completely reckless and categorically false.'
According to the suit, https://mnwiki.org/index.php/User:ChristiChecchi Montreal-based MindGeek owns more than 100 pornographic sites, including Pornhub, кокер RedTube, Tube8 and YouPorn, and sees some 3.5 billion visits each month.
The porn giant has faced a growing backlash since the New York Times published an article in December 2020 which accused Pornhub of posting illegal content online, including child pornography and мячом rape videos -- claims it has denied.
'Why does Canada host a company that inflicts rape videos on the world?,' wrote Times columnist Nicholas Kristof.
According to the suit, Montreal-based MindGeek owns more than 100 pornographic sites, стремился including Pornhub, футбольная RedTube, Tube8 and YouPorn
The public outcry led Visa and Mastercard to suspend payments on Pornhub.
The other major payment network, http://tecnoinformaticamra.diploz.com/FORO/profile/glenncampa51532 American Express, does not service pornography merchants.
But after MindGeek deleted millions of user-uploaded videos, sleepbegone.com Visa apparently considered the matter resolved and resumed payment processing.
Carney said in his ruling: 'Visa made the decision to continue to recognize MindGeek as a merchant, despite its alleged knowledge that MindGeek monetized child porn.'
'The court can comfortably infer that Visa intended to help MindGeek monetize child porn,' wrote Carney.
Ackman has been outspoken on the case, pitha.net telling CNBC on Tuesday: 'My interest comes from the fact that I have four daughters.'
'When you think about the worst harm — economic, транспорта physical, клоун mental harm you can impact upon a human being — it's having a child trafficked ...
video of the rape appear. I find it hard to talk about it,' he said.
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