Investigation into Pornhub offers opportunity to curb proliferation of ‘haunting’ online child sexual exploitation

Photo from the Canadian Centre for Child Protection

“Children have been forced to pay a terrible price for this,” McDonald said. 

Now, federal legislators have an opportunity to address these debased acts that police agencies and child protection organizations across the globe have been trying to fight since the dawn of the internet. The startling rate of proliferation as the universe of the world wide web expands by the second has been too much for authorities to handle.

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The testimony before Canada’s parliamentary ethics committee has once again revealed the disturbing increase in the spread of child sexual abuse material on the internet. 

While outrage has been directed at Pornhub and Canadian parent company MindGeek for its apparent failure to address the issue, they are not the only bad actors in the vast realm of internet exploitation.

Published in The Pointer Brampton and The Pointer Mississauga on March 13, 2021