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Visa (NYSE: V) and Mastercard (NYSE: MA) have suspended card payments for advertising on Pornhub and its parent company MindGeek.
In a ruling Friday, a federal judge in the US District Court of Central California denied Visa’s request to be dismissed from a lawsuit filed by a woman who claimed Visa was responsible in allowing a sexually explicit video of her at age 13 to be circulated across Pornhub.com.
US District Judge Cormac Carney, of the Central District of California in Santa Ana, said Visa made the decision to continue to recognize MindGeek as a merchant, despite its alleged knowledge that MindGeek monetized child porn.
In a statement released Thursday, Visa CEO Alfred Kelly said that, while the company strongly disagreed with the court’s ruling it had created “new uncertainty” around the role of TrafficJunky, MindGeek’s advertising arm.
In a statement sent to Gizmodo, a MindGeek said that none of its platforms, including Pornhub, have ever tolerates CSAM or other illicit material.
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