A petition demanding that the popular pornography website Pornhub be closed down for allegedly profiting off of and enabling sex trafficking has surpassed 1 million supporters.
Laila Mickelwait, the director of abolition for the non-religious and nonpartisan anti-trafficking group Exodus Cry, recently launched a “Traffickinghub” petition calling for the shutdown of one of the most trafficked websites in the world for hosting sex trafficking.
As of last Wednesday morning, the petition has garnered more than 1,007,000 signatures and has been endorsed by around 300 human rights groups worldwide.
The petition states –“We’re calling for Pornhub to be shut down and its executives held accountable for these crimes.”
In a statement, Mickelwait denounced the lack of accountability when it comes to the content Pornhub accounts are allowed to upload to the website.
She wrote: “All it takes to upload content to Pornhub is an email address — no government-issued ID is required. Pornhub doesn’t bother to reliably verify the age or the consent of the millions featured in the videos it hosts and profits from, yet it monetizes those videos with no questions asked.”
“We have significant evidence and it is just the tip of the iceberg,” she contended.
In February, Megha Mohan of the BBC reported that dozens of people have claimed videos of their sexual assaults were uploaded to Pornhub.
In March, Sen. Ben Sasse called on the U.S. Justice Department to investigate Pornhub.