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A David and Goliath battle involving a billion-dollar pornography website

Laila Mickelwait appears to wage a one-woman crusade to shut down a major distributor of rape and child abuse videos

20 July 2024

9:00 AM

20 July 2024

9:00 AM

Takedown: Inside the Fight to Shut Down Pornhub for Child Abuse, Rape and Sex Trafficking Laila Mickelwait

Headline, pp.320, 25

Laila Mickelwait’s Takedown describes in fascinating and often distressing detail both why Pornhub, the Canadian-owned internet pornography video-sharing website, needs to be destroyed and how this might be achieved. It’s not the story of a movement against the porn industry, like the one I have been involved with for decades, but more a woman’s lone, Erin Brockovich-like crusade to shut down a major distributor.

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