On the afternoon of April 6th 2020, two employees working for MindGeek — the company that runs some of the biggest porn sites in the world, including RedTube and PornHub — began exchanging frantic text messages. One of the messages read, “Yo sorry man can you make sure you are not cc’ing [the manager of the site] on the CSAM reports.” C.S.A.M. stands for “Child Sexual Abuse Material,” and for some reason, this employee wanted his colleague to stop alerting a manager to the presence of this content on MindGeek’s porn sites.
That request, understandably, shocked the MindGeek employee who received it. This was the reply that came back: “He doesn’t want to know how much CP we’ve ignored for the past 5 years?” In that message, in case it’s not obvious,”CP” stands for “child pornography.”
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