While users were uploading videos by the millions (yes, millions), “MindGeek employed a barebones team of ‘as few as 6 but never more than about 30 untrained, minimum wage contractors” to monitor the millions of daily uploads.’” To make matters worse, these workers were paid bonuses based on the number of videos they approved. As the court notes, “Such an incentive structure suggests that content moderation was not the goal.”

I could go on, but I won’t. At some point the facts just get overwhelming. If someone wanted to create a system that was designed to facilitate the distribution of child pornography, vidoes of rape and other kinds of abuse, or revenge porn, it would be hard to construct a more efficient system than MindGeek’s. And the sheer amount of MindGeek’s traffic and the volume of the downloads demonstrates that Pornhub and other sites are injecting poison into American life at an industrial scale.

I’ll give you one more fact—one that should shock the conscience of every decent American. After Kristof’s report, Visa temporarily suspended its business with MindGeek, and MindGeek responded by removing “over 10 million unverified videos from its [sites], constituting over 80% of its content.”

Sit with that for a moment. Over 80 percent of MindGeek’s content was suspect enough to remove.