Why is Mastercard and The New York Times Pretending that Nobody Knows About Rape and Child Pornography on Pornhub?
The internet story leaps decades at a time before major publications decide to write about them. Then they stop to wonder why their audience is shrinking because their journalism is terrible.
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Nicholas Kristof calls it “The Children of Pornhub” as if it is some sort of revelation that the internet porn giants make money off the exploitation, trafficking, and assault of the men and women and boys and girls on the platforms.
Topping it off, Mastercard is only just coming to the realization that this level of exploitation is a bad thing and they cannot transact any longer on this platform. A revelation that was not obvious to them before but is somehow dawned on them now that Nicholas Kristof has revealed a small portion of the internet that isn’t erased from the databases with a click of a button yet.
Pulling up rape stories and documenting that Pornhub will do nothing to stop its misery-profiteering scheme doesn’t prove a point. It means you lagged at your job so many fucking years ago. Pornhub isn’t new. The internet isn’t fucking new. As soon as the world figured out that you could put adverts on a webpage after the dot-com bubble, the architects rushed forward to usher in that change.
Kristof’s piece is as ridiculous as Mark Zuckerberg realizing in October of 2020 that Holocaust denial is a bad thing. It’s an aim at 5% of the problem that is already decades too late because the misery has been dealt and the profits have been reaped. Nobody in their right mind believes that Zuckerberg truthfully came to the conclusion that Holocaust denial was bad in 2020. And everyone, myself included, is wondering about why the Azerbaijani troll farms weren’t dealt with until a whistleblower finally revealed to the world that it fucking existed. My indigenous, Armenian people were brutally murdered, ears cut off, beheaded in the lands of Artsakh because Azerbaijan is allowed to…
