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Originally Posted by InfoGuy
Fuck PH/MG. Their removal of all the UGC is basically an admission of wrongdoing. I hope the plaintiffs from Girls Do Porn and others who have been wronged by PH/MG go after them for monetary damages. After they are crippled by the civil suits, the Feds can go in for the kill.
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This is unfolding just as I predicted.
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Filed with the United States District Court for the Southern District of California on December 15 by attorneys Brian Holm and John O'Brien, the 43-page complaint details the suffering of these alleged victims of Girls Do Porn, and claims that each of the 40 plaintiffs became suicidal because of the harassment they endured when their videos spread non-consensually across the internet, including across Mindgeek's network of porn sites.
Girls Do Porn was a sex trafficking operation that forced and coerced dozens of women as young as 18 into sex on camera, and lied to them about where and how the videos would be distributed. The women were told by everyone involved, from cast and crew to the owner, that the videos would not appear online. After filming, their videos were uploaded to Girls Do Porn's own site, as well as Pornhub, where the Girls Do Porn monetized its videos as a Pornhub "content partner." Pornhub also promoted Girls Do Porn as a content partner even after women in Girls Do Porn videos came forward about abuse and sued it.
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It looks like PH/MG executives and employees will be indicted for sex trafficking and RICO charges when the Feds go after them.
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According to the complaint, "Mindgeek knowingly benefitted from and participated in GirlsDoPorn’s sex trafficking venture by, among other things: partnering with GirlsDoPorn through its Content Partner Program and Viewshare Program; marketing, selling, and exploiting videos featuring victims of GirlsDoPorn’s sex trafficking venture; [and] earning millions of dollars in affiliate fees and premium subscriptions."
In October 2019, the FBI indicted Girls Do Porn for federal counts of sex trafficking. The owner, Michael Pratt, is on the FBI's Most Wanted list. Last month, the male performer for the videos, Andre Garcia, pled guilty to trafficking counts. Earlier this year, following a civil trial, a California state judge ordered the company's operators to pay 22 women $12.7 million for force, fraud and coercion.
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The 22 plaintiffs who sued GDP has now nearly doubled to 40. With the daily media exposure PH/MG have been getting this past week, the number of plaintiffs will surely multiply.