Takedown: Inside the Fight to Shut Down Pohub for Child Abuse, Rape, and Sex Trafficking

by: Laila Mickelwait (Author)

Publisher: Thesis

Publication Date: 2024/7/23

Language: English

Print Length: 320 pages

ISBN-10: 0593542010

ISBN-13: 9780593542019

Book Description

NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe gripping, true story of one woman’s battle to expose and shut down a criminal online po empire.Pohub was the 10th most visited site on the Inteet, often praised as a progressive champion of women. Then one day, an activist discovered a secret they had been keeping from the world for over a decade: it was infested with child sexual abuse and rape videos.Now for the first time, anti-trafficking expert and mother of two Laila Mickelwait tells the story of her battle against Pohub’s billionaire executives and the credit card companies who helped them monetize the abuse of countless victims—some as young as three years old. Readers will follow her from her first horrifying discovery of criminal content on Pohub to closed-door meetings with credit card executives, White House and Justice Department senior officials, a powerful hedge-fund manager and more. Through insider accounts from Pohub moderators and executives, you’ll meet the world’s first online po tycoon, AKA “the Zuckerberg of po,” along with Pohub’s top brass (known inteally as “The Bro Club”) who operate in secrecy.The culmination of years of activism, Takedown is the true, never before told story of how Mickelwait mobilized a movement of two million people and together they accomplished “the biggest takedown of content in Inteet history.” (Financial Times)

About the Author

NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe gripping, true story of one woman’s battle to expose and shut down a criminal online po empire.Pohub was the 10th most visited site on the Inteet, often praised as a progressive champion of women. Then one day, an activist discovered a secret they had been keeping from the world for over a decade: it was infested with child sexual abuse and rape videos.Now for the first time, anti-trafficking expert and mother of two Laila Mickelwait tells the story of her battle against Pohub’s billionaire executives and the credit card companies who helped them monetize the abuse of countless victims—some as young as three years old. Readers will follow her from her first horrifying discovery of criminal content on Pohub to closed-door meetings with credit card executives, White House and Justice Department senior officials, a powerful hedge-fund manager and more. Through insider accounts from Pohub moderators and executives, you’ll meet the world’s first online po tycoon, AKA “the Zuckerberg of po,” along with Pohub’s top brass (known inteally as “The Bro Club”) who operate in secrecy.The culmination of years of activism, Takedown is the true, never before told story of how Mickelwait mobilized a movement of two million people and together they accomplished “the biggest takedown of content in Inteet history.” (Financial Times)