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They seized on illegally posted child sexual assault videos that PornHub did not remove from its platform. According to Gwen Adora , an online adult industry creator and influencer, sex workers agree that PornHub has been notoriously slow in the past to respond to requests to take down illegal material.
Writing in the Guardian, founder of the NotYourPorn campaign Kate Isaacs describes the months-long process to get an illegal video removed, and how much damage is done in the interim.
