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Human trafficking violations have led to a petition on change.org to call for a popular porn website to be shut down and its executive held accountable.
The 207,000-signature petition says: “We already have evidence, and it is just the tip of the iceberg. It’s time to shut down [this] super-predator site … and hold the executives behind it accountable.”
The organisers of the petition plan to send it to the US Department of Justice, the FBI, US President Donald Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and several US Congressmen.
Dr Melissa Farley, executive director of Prostitution Research & Education, said the petition is proposing a fair and moderate position.
She said the website’s actions are already illegal.
In her view, the “organisation [that prepared the petition] are taking a very reasonable stance.”
“They’re only talking about children and they’re only talking about children that are being advertised for sale. Any prostitution of a child according to U.S. federal law is trafficking,” she said.
“This is pictures of the trafficking of kids, in other words, pictures of the prostitution of children.”
The initiative to set up a petition came about following feedback from people who were angry at the news regarding the website’s negligence regarding illegal material on its site.
It is leading to illegal people trafficking, Laila Mickelwait, Exodus Cry’s Director of Abolition and the author of the petition, said.
“Everybody’s in agreement that children should not be trafficked and raped.
“Women should not be trafficked and raped for profit, for the sexual pleasure of billions of people who visit that website.”
“There’s just no arguing with that.”
Mickelwait said that because of the massive amount of content on the website, it is possible that there are more instances of sexual exploitation and child pornography than she knows of.
“If we know that there’s 10, 12, 15, 20[cases], [then] there’s probably hundreds, thousands [of cases of sexual exploitation]… We have no idea how huge this could be based on the amount of content they have on their site.”
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- Catholic News Agency
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