The porn industry has proven itself incapable of verifying consent

In fact, Pornhub has already "verified" pornography of a minor (aka child pornography) and even of sex trafficking victims. For example, 22 survivors have sued MindGeek for $80 million because one of the corporation's official partner channels—GirlsDoPorn—trafficked them into pornography. These women were recruited as models, lured to hotels, plied with alcohol and drugs, coerced and deceived into signing contracts to produce pornography. Even after this practice became common knowledge, and while there were active lawsuits against GirlsDoPorn, Pornhub kept the videos of these survivors on their platform for months. GirlsDoPorn was a verified content provider on Pornhub, ostensibly as "legitimate" a content provider as possible. MindGeek is arguably the largest pornography corporation in existence. If abuse content is a problem in a company that spends millions marketing itself as mainstream and socially responsible, then it is a problem everywhere. Consent verification methods in the pornography industry include anything from taking a photo with a username written on a body part, to taking a photo with a driver's license, to signing contracts to filming a short video saying you consent. But sex traffickers and pimps can and do manipulate—or simply coerce—people into all of these acts.
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