A reckoning for the pornography industry

Published August 8, 2022 12:00am ET



Pornography, including child pornography, runs rampant online.

The industry is facing a reckoning from an unlikely suspect: a young woman whose life spiraled out of control when, at age 13, her boyfriend posted an explicit video of her on Pornhub without her knowledge or consent. Eight years later, a federal judge in California has denied Visa’s motion to dismiss Serena Fleites’s lawsuit, which alleges the credit card company enabled child pornography like hers on Pornhub via the pornography website’s parent company, MindGeek.

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