In case readers wants a journalist’s take instead of the subject themselves, link below. I think anyone noticing the hyperbolic way she spoke in the interview would quickly be seeking out a non-first-person perspective. The interviewer didn’t even allude to the pre-existing controversy around this lady, what terrible journalism.
This anecdote from the article is technically hearsay, but I for sure buy that a person who uses language like she does is the same kind of person who’d write this:
Aylo also shared a screenshot with The Independent of a post it said Mickelwait shared then deleted on X, describing her husband as a “trained sniper who can consistently hit a target 1360 yards away.”
I bet they’re also butthurt over metal music being played too. Fuck them. They don’t get to dictate what’s allowed anymore. That’s probably what got them butthurt the most.
Dipshits don’t even get it’s this based on this painting musee-magnin.fr/en/node/19 which is in a French museum, about the gods of Olympus, and includes the lyre you see in the recreation. It’s not the last supper which is in Italy and not in France. Similar framing of course - clearly on purpose - but who cares. What dumbasses, outrage machine go burrr
Never, ever, EVER trust ANYONE who says they’re doing something “for the safety of children”. The war against porn and sex work has been co-opted by christian fascists.
Make no mistake, there is a hysteria around “child trafficking” nowadays, and that hysteria is being harnessed to pass laws that suppress our freedoms. SESTA/FOSTA has put the lives of countless sex workers at risk by forcing them back into the shady world of pimps and back alleys. The Texas ID law is pure government surveillance, and Project 2025 explicitly linked any trans people’s mere existence as “pornographic” and thus subject to all anti-porn laws.
Human trafficking is real. Child abuse is real. And it needs to be fought against.
But never EVER trust anyone who goes to the media and starts shouting about “our children”. It’s a fucking scam, and it’s usually making things worse for the people they claim to want to protect.
NCOSE, the organization that co-sponsored Traffickinghub, was previously known as Morality in Media, and used to rail against sex shops, push abstinence education, and once boycotted Disney for offering partner benefits to gay couples. The group’s president, Patrick Trueman, has served at multiple far-right organizations designated as anti-LGBTQ+ hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Laila founded Traffickinghub while on staff at Exodus Cry, an anti-trafficking organization that describes porn as a public health crisis. Its founder once called homosexuality an “an unspeakable offense to God.” One of its tax filings described a mission of “abolishing sex trafficking and the commercial sex industry,” which would seem to include porn.
Wow, great article, but it has even more info pointing out that this is a far right attack on sexuality that is using “trafficking” as its trojan horse:
Laila founded Traffickinghub while on staff at Exodus Cry, an anti-trafficking organization that describes porn as a public health crisis. Its founder once called homosexuality an “an unspeakable offense to God.” One of its tax filings described a mission of “abolishing sex trafficking and the commercial sex industry,” which would seem to include porn.
Helen Taylor, vice president of impact at Exodus Cry, told The Independent in an email that the group seeks to neither demonize LGBTQ+ people nor end legal pornography, and that it works to defend queer people, who are often singled out as victims of sexual exploitation.
“Exodus Cry has no campaign to bring down the porn industry,” she said. “We focus on identifying instances of sexual exploitation in the porn industry and calling for change, recognizing that Big Porn needs regulation.”
The questions over Mickelwait’s associations are likely to persist. The 2022 990 tax form for her new group, Justice Defense Fund, filed in late 2023, has the names of three of its four main officers “withheld for security reasons,” and lists only one contributor, their name also “restricted.”
These partnerships, as well as Mickelwait’s penchant for describing Pornhub in terms like calling it a “terrorist” organization, made her efforts seem counter-productive to some, painting the industry as irredeemable and evil rather than imperfect.
We need a word for how quickly these Christians are having meltdowns at the slightest perceived offense… something that evokes feelings of fragility and brittleness… I know, we’ll call them icicles!
I've been skeptical of her work. She makes a lot of valid points about PH's shortcomings and things they need to fix, but she was also a prominent voice in spreading misinformation about at least one actress that I'm aware of, going hard into very serious accusations all based on a single tweet from some random person, causing pretty significant damage to the actress's career as now many platforms are afraid to host her content. To the best of my knowledge, she's never recanted the claims, although just about every media outlet that reported on that story has deleted their articles on it.
She seems to put about as much work into fact-checking herself as PH puts into protecting their users. And when you're dealing with a subject as intense as producing CSAM, you really shouldn't be loosey-goosey with your vetting process. I feel like she's doing this more to get eyes on her book deal than to actually help people.
I wonder if anyone around here has the medical or biological knowledge to say whether or not dengue can spread wildly in Europe or give reasons as to why it’s not likely.
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