GENEVA – UN experts* today raised the alarm over the large-scale sexual exploitation of women and girls facilitated and monetised by Pornhub and its parent company Aylo Holdings, as well as the role of payment networks, and search engines.
The experts stressed that businesses cannot evade responsibilities for being complicit in human rights violations and providing available tools to direct perpetrators. “A red line must be drawn,” the experts said. “Systems that facilitate and profit from the sexual exploitation of women and girls cannot merely be regulated at the margins, they must be fundamentally confronted.”
They urged the Governments of the United States and Canada to fully prosecute Aylo and require third-party age and consent verification for all user-generated pornography sites. While no response was received from the Government of the United States, in its response, the Government of Canada acknowledged the need to “modernize the private sector privacy law” and to enact legislation that would hold social media service providers accountable for harmful content.