In the lawsuit it is alleged the company “never informed the authorities about the identity of Defendant Franklin, the fact he posted child sexual violence, or the fact that child sexual violence was being utilized on their platforms for profit to their mutual benefit.”
The platform issued a statement saying, “MindGeek is aware that a lawsuit has been filed in federal court in Alabama. We are sympathetic to any victim who has suffered from a trusted person’s abuse, which is why we have zero tolerance for illegal material or the bad actors who attempt to upload it.”
“In this case, we cooperated with authorities, leading to this criminal’s sentencing of 40 years in federal prison. MindGeek has instituted the most comprehensive safeguards in user-generated platform history to mitigate the ability of criminals to successfully upload illegal material,” the statement said.
