Streaming platform Roku has revised a policy, effectively banning Pornhub and other porn sites from using its services. The policy revision is the latest blow to Pornhub's parent company MindGeek. Roku joins a list of other corporates including MasterCard, PayPal and Comcast which have severed ties with the pornography giant after it was exposed for distributing illegal content including child sexual abuse material and content featuring women victims of trafficking, rape and image based abuse.
**BREAKING: Roku is cutting ties with Pornhub and removing the channel.**@Roku now joins Visa, MasterCard, Discover, PayPal, Grant Thornton, Comcast, Xfinity, Heinz & Unilever in cutting off the porn giant exposed for complicity in mass sexual crime. #Traffickinghub pic.twitter.com/vgaBSopApW
— Laila Mickelwait (@LailaMickelwait) November 2, 2021
Great WIN in the campaign to #dismantlepornhub: .@roku bans porn sites from platform, effective March 2022
— Collective Shout (@CollectiveShout) November 3, 2021
👏🏼@ncose @DefendDignity @LailaMickelwait #traffickinghub https://t.co/xelrbuL7EV
Our partners at the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) described Roku’s decision - effective from March 2022 - as a “victory for survivors of sexual exploitation”.
In March, we joined a global coalition of 41 survivors and advocates from 12 countries to call on Roku to shut down the Pornhub private channel and block any hosting or facilitation of MindGeek entities. Read the letter to Roku CEO Anthony Wood here.
.@Roku why do you still host a channel for Pornhub after they’ve been exposed for streaming child sexual abuse + rape?
— Collective Shout (@CollectiveShout) March 19, 2021
We urge you to follow other mainstream companies such as Visa and Mastercard in cutting ties with Pornhub. #Shutitdown #Traffickinghub #dismantlepornhub pic.twitter.com/RZ0VvFaBqa
Hey @Roku -
— Collective Shout (@CollectiveShout) March 24, 2021
Why are you aiding Pornhub?
Time to demonstrate #corporatesocialresponsbility and cut ties with them!#DismantlePornhub #traffickinghub #shutdownpornhub #shutitdown #endsexploitation pic.twitter.com/mazV8AyE1j
Call to corporates to cut ties with MindGeek [April 2, 2021]
We’ve told you about the global campaign to shut down Pornhub and hold its executives accountable for aiding human trafficking and other criminal activity.
Now we’ve joined forces with our friends at the National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE, US) and Defend Dignity (Canada) to #DismantlePornhub, calling on even more corporates to sever ties with Pornhub’s parent company MindGeek.
In 2019, Kraft Heinz and Unilever distanced themselves from the online mega crime scene, vowing - after a successful campaign led by NCOSE - to ‘never advertise on Pornhub or any other porn sites again’.
More recently, PayPal, Visa, Mastercard and Discover stopped processing payments to Pornhub.
The new campaign calls on companies to go a step further, urging those which facilitate MindGeek’s broader activities to stop propping up the mega pimp which has aided and profited from child sexual exploitation, image based abuse and human trafficking.
Amongst the companies being targeted are streaming platform Roku, fashion label Diesel and e-commerce platform, Wish. (Read more about our previous campaigns against Diesel here and Wish here.)
If these companies have any sense of corporate social responsibility they’ll take action and stop aiding MindGeek now.
Read more here.
Take action
This week our focus is on Visa which, while having ceased transactions to Pornhub, continues to process payments to parent company MindGeek.
Tell Visa to exercise corporate social responsibility and stop all payments to MindGeek now:
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See also
Win! Mastercard and VISA cut ties with Pornhub + millions of vids removed
Pornhub executives stand before Canadian Parliament over rape and child abuse videos
Unilever and Kraft Heinz pledge to never advertise on Pornhub
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