MasterCard Stands Against Big Porn Criminal Exploitation

On Friday  MasterCard enacted a global policy that has been in the works for several months that prohibits the use of the card on all user-generated porn sites that do not verify the age and the consent of the millions of individuals in the videos they profit from. 

For over a decade, Big Porn tube sites have exploited victims for a profit with impunity, creating their sites to monetize criminal sexual abuse with ease rather than combat it.

Case in point: Pornhub, the largest and most popular porn site globally and the tenth most trafficked website across the Internet, with 47 billion visits and seven million videos uploaded per year, was allowing users to upload sex videos with only an email address. No ID was required to show it wasn’t a child, no consent form to show it wasn’t a rape, trafficking, or revenge porn victim–only an email address. But things are changing, and the era of impunity for these predatory Big Porn corporations is over. 

Let’s keep fighting because we are winning. 

• Laila Mickelwait CEO and Founder of Justice Defense Fund
• Learn more here: https://justicedefensefund.org/