Bottom line up front: contact DiscoverCard here and ask them to pull their support from PornHub, which continues to allow child abuse and rape on their site.
If you’re hesitant, I’d like you to take some time to read about Rose Kalemba. She was raped at 14, and her assaulters thought it was such a great time that they uploaded it to PornHub for millions of other people to take advantage of. PornHub does not make it difficult to become a verified user, and does not require any kind of proof of consent or age from people in videos before they are uploaded. Even after PornHub was aware of the situation, they refused to take action for a long time.
And after Rose finally won her battle to get her rape removed from PornHub, she was personally attacked by people within the industry, who even went so far as to kill her cat.
This is one of those cases where you can’t argue the facts. The evidence is there–the monsters uploaded it themselves. Meanwhile, all that matters to PornHub is the bottom line: their CEO actually even recently tweeted “yo where my pedophiles at,” making light of and even celebrating the suffering abusers cause. Back in December of 2020, Pornhub announced they will require uploads to be made only by verified users. This is huge–more than half the site will supposedly be taken down if PH is held to their word. Note, however, that this “verified users” bullshit does NOT mean they require signed consent from the people in the videos–only that the people who uploaded them own a driver’s license.
Rapists can own driver’s licenses.
And horrifyingly, Rose isn’t alone.
Look, Pornhub is never going to require signed proof of consent without significant international pressure. Fortunately, as you’ll read in the bulletin by Feminists For Life below, most major credit card companies, and Paypal, have pulled their support for PornHub. This leaves DiscoverCard to make millions of dollars off human suffering on its own.
This is the message I sent in my chat to Discover:
“Hello there. This is a note to request that Discover pull its support from PornHub, which has been complicit in child abuse and rape. I am specifically concerned about how the case of Rose Kalemba was handled, in which she was repeatedly raped as a minor, and demanded that the video celebrating her rape be taken down, and Pornhub refused for months, and then sent people to harass her online, even killing her cat. AmEx, Paypal, and various other financial institutions have pulled their support for PornHub and no longer accept PornHub charges. When is DiscoverCard going to follow suit?”
They were really polite and responsive, and sent on my concern to another level. I mentioned that I will only be interested in opening a DiscoverCard account when this problem is dealt with, subtly demonstrating that with enough publicity this could be an issue for their bottom line.
Imagine if their chat lines are flooded with concerned people?
From Feminists for Life:
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