By Canadian Press

Executives at Pornhub defend efforts at preventing child porn on their websites

Feb 5, 2021 | 1:05 PM

MONTREAL — Representatives of Pornhub told a parliamentary committee today they don’t know if they were contacted by a woman who says she struggled to have a video of her removed from the pornography website.

Feras Antoon and David Tassillo of MindGeek, parent company of Pornhub, told the committee on access to information, privacy and ethics that they couldn’t find records of any correspondence with Serena Fleites.

Fleites told the committee on Monday that she had to ask Pornhub multiple times to remove an explicit video of her — taken when she was 14 years old — that was posted on the site without her consent.

While MindGeek — one of the world’s largest producers and distributors of pornography — is legally headquartered in Luxembourg, Antoon and Tassillo live in Montreal where the company employs around 1,000 people.

Antoon and Tassillo say their company is a world leader in preventing the distribution of child pornography and non-consensual pornography and say all content that appears on the website is approved by human moderators.

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This report by The Canadian Press was first published Feb. 5, 2021.

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This story was produced with the financial assistance of the Facebook and Canadian Press News Fellowship.

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