Document Trove: Pornhub Allowed Illegal Child Abuse Videos Even After They Were Flagged
When Republican lawmakers across the country rolled out plans to crack down on on-screen sex companies for failing to verify the age of their users, the porn lobby, Democrats, and their allies in corporate media threw a fit. They defended the on-screen “sex work” as consensual and constitutionally protected. In reality, mass abuse, exploitation, and sex trafficking of children is routinely uploaded and searched on porn websites — sometimes without objection or hasty removal.
A 51-page document trove recently uncovered due to a “filing error” shows Pornhub allowed child sexual abuse material (CSAM) to stay on its website for years at a time despite its clear violation of federal law.
The previously sealed memorandum from December 2024 includes dozens of internal records and conversations showing Pornhub employees knew of content documenting the rape and trafficking of minors on their platform but failed to curb it.
A New York Times’ exposé determined the documents “show why we shouldn’t trust porn companies.” The evidence, however, increasingly indicates that Pornhub and a significant number of its patrons are complicit in sex crimes against children.
In several instances spanning from 2015 to 2020, Pornhub received reports from users flagging certain videos as involving someone underage but failed to remove the criminal acts from its website. One particular video, despite getting flagged to Pornhub content reviewers 13 times since it was uploaded in 2015, racked up 1.7 million views before it was taken down in 2019. (Read more from “Document Trove: Pornhub Allowed Illegal Child Abuse Videos Even After They Were Flagged” HERE)
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