A federal judge ruled Friday that it is reasonable to infer that payment processor Visa knowingly helped Pornhub “monetize child porn” and denied its motion to dismiss the claim that it violated California’s Unfair Competition Law.
District Judge Cormac Carney of the U.S. District Court of the Central District of California wrote in his ruling on July 29 that “Visa knew that MindGeek’s websites were teeming with monetized child porn.”
Montreal-based company Mindgeek is Pornhub’s parent company.
It knew of this fact, the judge said, “from its own due diligence and discussions and negotiations with MindGeek” as well as PayPal’s decision to cease doing business with MindGeek, along with an article published by The New York Times in December 2020 titled: “The Children of Pornhub: Why does Canada allow this company to profit off videos of exploitation and assault?”…