Laila Mickelwait

@lailamickelwait

CEO/Founder, Justice Defense Fund | Founder, Traffickinghub | Bestselling Author of Takedown: Inside the Fight to Shut Down P*rnhub (Penguin, 2024)
Followers
53.9k
Following
379
Account Insight
Score
61.24%
Index
Health Rate
%
Users Ratio
142:1
Weeks posts
P*rnhub has been exposed for enabling and profiting from countless videos of real child abuse and trafficking. This behemoth of criminal abuse has been crippled. Now it’s time to finish the job and finally TAKE IT DOWN because victims deserve justice. Join Team Takedown today with a monthly donation of $30 or more and get a free copy of the bestselling book Takedown that reveals the true inside story behind the fight to shut down P*rnhub. Go to TeamTakedown.org and join the fight for justice.
6,927 315
1 year ago
This is the story of a missing 15 year old girl who was found on P*rnhub being assaulted in 58 videos that inspired the launch of the Traffickinghub movement to shut down P*rnhub in 2020. Comment “link” to get a DM with the link to sign the petition and join Team Takedown so we can finish this fight for justice. Thanks to the help of many people P*rnhub has faced a reckoning. Here is a sample of the progress we have made together to hold the company accountable: —Loss of all credit card processing because Visa, Mastercard and Discover joined PayPal in cutting all ties. —91% of the website content taken down. — 68% reduction in visitors to the site. — 25 lawsuits filed on behalf of victims including certified class actions on behalf of tens of thousands of child abuse victims. —The parent company of P*rnhub has lost over a billion dollars in value and was sold as a distressed asset. —The company was criminally charged by the U.S. government for intentionally profiting from the trafficking of over 100 victims. —The site was forced to change its business model and entire upload process. And we are not done yet… Comment “link” below to get a DM with the link to sign the petition and join Team Takedown so we can finish this fight for justice. See the full interview on the @mikhailapeterson Podcast #traffickinghub
46.1k 1,944
1 year ago
My conversation with Theo Von about the fight to hold P*rnhub accountable was just released! Comment “Theo” to have a link to the episode sent to you via DM!
2,152 275
1 year ago
BREAKING: Today United Nations experts called for full criminal prosecution of P*rnhub/Aylo in the U.S. and Canada. They also called for mandatory, third-party, age and consent verification policy. Reem Alsalem, Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, and Ana Brian Nougrères, Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy, highlighted the systemic abuse of victims on P*rnhub. They also called out Twitter/X and Xvideos for employing the same exploitative structural conditions that P*rnhub deployed prior to being exposed and held accountable: no verification of identity, age or consent for millions of individuals featured in the explicit content being globally distributed. The experts highlighted the critical role that payment networks, search engine, and hosting companies play in enabling or disrupting the abuse, and the need for those gatekeepers to implement global corporate policy requiring age and consent verification for sexually explicit content as a condition for use of their services.
412 25
1 day ago
BREAKING: Dutch authorities have shut down the Motherless crime scene website after CNN exposed that it was disturbing unverified user-generated p*rn infested with real r@pe videos to 60 million site visits per month. Victims finally have their traumatic assaults taken offline
1,067 110
8 days ago
This is a critical way that we can stop the spread of online sexual crime and prevent the unending trauma of millions.
609 79
13 days ago
The solution at scale to stop illegal content from being distributed on p*rn sites, is third-party, age and consent verification for each individual featured in user-generated p*rn images and videos. At the Justice Defense Fund we are advocating for these protective policies and supporting survivors in their pursuit of justice in court against corporate lawbreakers. Become a member of Team Takedown and join the fight today. From my interview with @mikhailapeterson
1,265 30
1 month ago
P*rnhub was monetizing real r*pe videos of drugged, unconscious victims, and many other forms of illegal content, until public pressure and lawsuits forced Visa and Mastercard to cut them off. They were then forced to take down over 90% of the entire website. Today Motherless is monetizing r*pe videos of drugged, unconscious victims and other forms of illegal content and monetizing it with ads purchased using Visa and Mastercard. Motherless should face the same reckoning. This is also a perfect example of why mandatory age/ID and consent verification is essential prevention policy.
758 86
1 month ago
In the news today: SHUT DOWN P*RNHUB It’s time for the child abuse, r*pe and trafficking profiteers to be relegated to the dustbin of history. Join Team Takedown today at the link in bio. We will keep fighting together until justice prevails. 👊
454 20
1 month ago
This video of James Van Der Beek’s daughter Emilia on his birthday is so so beautiful—her words of wisdom are beyond her years. Anyone who has lost a loved one can feel this. I lost my own amazing father suddenly in 2014, and this video brought tears. Just hearing her speak, you can tell what a wonderful father James was and the profound impact he had on her. I’m sure he is smiling from heaven. ❤️
14.6k 785
2 months ago
The P*rnhub child abuse, r*pe and trafficking crime scene is shutting itself down in Australia! Now less people will provide ad views and profit to the executives of Traffickinghub and less children will be traumatized by accessing this hellhole of abuse. Such great news!! 👏
390 32
2 months ago
VPNs became an obvious loophole in age-verification laws, allowing tech savvy minors to bypass protections and access p*rn sites anyway. Now lawmakers are moving to close the loophole.
124 7
2 months ago