'The Court can comfortably infer that Visa intended to help MindGeek monetize child porn,' a judge wrote.
The lawsuit was originally filed last June in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California by a woman named Serena Fleites, whose horrendous ordeal with an underage sex video was originally detailed inpublished by the New York Times in 2020. When she was 13, Fleites’ boyfriend uploaded an illicit video of her to Pornhub. The video was shared widely, and one version of it was viewed as many as 2.7 million times.
According to the suit, Fleites experience is far from unique. The suit is also representing 34 other women who claim to have been affected by similar situations involving videos of them.Pornhub, MindGeek is the owner of dozens of popular porn websites —including YouPorn, RedTube, Thumbzilla, and Tube8. It also owns a number of porn production companies—like Reality Kings and Brazzers.
We reached out to Visa for comment and will update our story if they respond. In a statement provided to Variety, the payment processor claimed that it was an “improper defendant” in the case: “Visa condemns sex trafficking, sexual exploitation and child sexual abuse materials as repugnant to our values and purpose as a company. This pre-trial ruling is disappointing and mischaracterizes Visa’s role and its policies and practices. Visa will not tolerate the use of our network for illegal activity. We continue to believe that Visa is an improper defendant in this case.
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