The new bipartisan war on porn

Published March 10, 2020 6:56pm ET



While conservatives and libertarians have been busy arguing about the war on porn, Republican Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse has found the one thing we can all agree on: The porn industry should never be able to profit from human trafficking, as it already has.

In a letter to U.S. Attorney General William Barr, Sasse called for the Justice Department to investigate Pornhub, the 34th most popular website in the United States. Why? Not because the website promotes porn, but because it has benefited from content involving trafficking victims, and it has refused to acknowledge its complicity in human rights abuses.

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