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This is a follow-up on my most popular thread ever on this forum:
Link to NYT article here:
I know this was published back in April, but I was in the midst of studying for exams then and didn't notice that that article had been published until this month. Given the popularity of the previous thread, which was about Kristof's article on Pornhub, I might as well write a new thread on Kristof's article on XVideos.
Anyways, here are the most interesting bits:
For those of you weren't aware of what happened back with Kristof's article on Pornhub back in December 2020, his article was the reason why Pornhub purged almost three-quarters of their videos from the website. Visa and Mastercard announced they would stop working with Pornhub, and multiple U.S. senators introduced a bill that would've federally criminalized the nonsensual sharing of nudes (though it later died in committee).
However, XVideos, which is based in the Czech Republic, doesn't seem to give a fuck. Google doesn't either.
I'm tagging people who demonstrated a significant interest in this topic in the last two threads:
New York Times: A 14-year-old femoid sent her nudes to a Chad, and it ended up on Pornhub (Coomers GTFIH)
At 14, Serena K. Fleites was an A student in Bakersfield, Calif., who had never made out with a boy. But in the eighth grade she developed a crush on a boy a year older, and he asked her to take a naked video of herself. She sent it to him, and this changed her life. He asked for another, then...
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Link to NYT article here:
Opinion | Why Do We Let Corporations Profit From Rape Videos? (Published 2021)
With help from Google, XVideos lets people leer at the worst moment in a child’s life.
www.nytimes.com
I know this was published back in April, but I was in the midst of studying for exams then and didn't notice that that article had been published until this month. Given the popularity of the previous thread, which was about Kristof's article on Pornhub, I might as well write a new thread on Kristof's article on XVideos.
Anyways, here are the most interesting bits:
Heather Legarde, a young woman in Alberta, felt the world crashing down on her last August. She had discovered that her ex-husband had posted intimate videos of her online, she told me, and people around the world were gazing at her naked body...Worst of all, in one video her former husband sexually assaulted her as she lay unconscious in their bed. Legarde has no recollection of the assault and no idea how the video was made. One clue: It was tagged “sleeping pills.”
Some 200,000 people had watched her being assaulted while she was drugged and unconscious. So on that day in August, mortified and dizzied by her discovery of the betrayal, Legarde prepared to tie a noose.
A 16-year-old girl in Perth, Australia, a good student and popular in school, took a naked photo of herself while standing in front of a bathroom mirror. She sent it via Snapchat, so that it would automatically disappear in seconds, to her 17-year-old boyfriend, with the words: “I love you. I trust you.”
The boyfriend took a screenshot before it disappeared and shared it with five of his friends. They in turn shared it with 47 of their friends. Within a few days, more than 200 people in the school had a copy. Someone uploaded it to a porn site, naming the girl and her school; over three months, with the help of online searches directing people to the site, the photo was downloaded 7,000 times. The family moved to a different city, but students there found the image as well, so the family fled to a different state in Australia.
Paul Litherland, a former Australian police officer who worked on the case, told me that the photo was posted on porn websites all over the world, so the girl felt she could never escape. She refused to attend school. She self-medicated with drugs. And then, at the age of 21, she took her life.
For those of you weren't aware of what happened back with Kristof's article on Pornhub back in December 2020, his article was the reason why Pornhub purged almost three-quarters of their videos from the website. Visa and Mastercard announced they would stop working with Pornhub, and multiple U.S. senators introduced a bill that would've federally criminalized the nonsensual sharing of nudes (though it later died in committee).
However, XVideos, which is based in the Czech Republic, doesn't seem to give a fuck. Google doesn't either.
XVideos did not respond to earlier requests for comment, but after this article was published online, the company provided an unsigned statement.
Google is a pillar of this sleazy ecosystem, for roughly half the traffic reaching XVideos and XNXX appears to come from Google searches. I reached out to Google to understand its reasons for complicity with companies that monetize child sexual abuse, but I didn’t receive satisfactory answers.
I'm tagging people who demonstrated a significant interest in this topic in the last two threads:
@ThoughtfulCel @shii410 @JosefMengelecel @Caesercel @slavcel11 @Unsaveable @Lv99_BixNood @solblue @your personality @Words2_live_bye @Heartless @Wizard32 @Incline @tacotown2142 @happiless @Pumkin @NoCopeNoHope @Hate_my_life @Emba @Copexodius Maximus