Visa suspends credit card payments for ads on Pornhub in wake of lawsuit
https://nypost.com/2022/08/04/visa-s...ke-of-lawsuit/
Visa has suspended payments for ads on Pornhub and its parent company MindGeek after the credit card giant was accused by a woman of facilitating the dissemination of child pornography on the website.
“We do not tolerate the use of our network for illegal activity,” Al Kelly, Visa’s CEO, said in a statement issued Thursday.
The statement comes a week after a federal judge in California denied Visa’s request to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Serena Fleites, who claims the payments processor helped Pornhub and MindGeek profit from illegal content.
“Let me be clear: Visa condemns sex trafficking, sexual exploitation, and child sexual abuse,” Kelly said. “It is illegal, and Visa does not permit the use of our network for illegal activity.”
“Our rules explicitly and unequivocally prohibit the use of our products to pay for content that depicts nonconsensual sexual behavior or child sexual abuse,” the statement concluded.
A spokesperson for MindGeek told The Post earlier this week that Pornhub has banned child pornography as well as any material that depicts sexual abuse of children.