For the past two years, legal proceedings have been going well, mainly in the United States, against an online pornography company, MindGeek, whose head office would be in Luxembourg, a high place of the tax haven, but of which a large part of the employees are in Montreal.
In addition to the hundreds of millions of people around the world, nearly 4 million Canadians visit it every day.
What is wrong with this company? Of having disseminated child pornography, some of whose victims were 12 years old at the time of the assaults, or even child pornography produced by sexual predators.
He is also accused of having paid traffickers to obtain videos of sexual assaults. Which technically would be the production of child pornography. My question: what are we waiting for to prosecute the leaders of this company criminally?
Section 163.1 of the Criminal Code is very clear: the distribution and possession of child pornography is punishable by a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison. Could a police investigation give rise to criminal proceedings against the employees of this company who put this content online as well as their leaders?
Two weights, two measures
Let’s take an ordinary individual in his basement who receives a rape video from a 12-year-old girl. He looks at it, keeps it and passes it on to several other pedophiles of his caliber. If he is caught by the police, he will be charged with possession and distribution of child pornography and will face a minimum prison sentence of one year and a maximum of 14 years.
If he produces the video himself by attacking his daughter or the neighbour’s daughter or by paying another individual to do it, he will also be accused of producing child pornography. Tell me, what difference is there between this ordinary gentleman and this company which defends itself by invoking that it has not “knowingly” done everything it is accused of?
Yet the video of a 13-year-old girl is not ambiguous, is it? Having video productions made by recognized and convicted sexual predators is not trivial.
Let’s do better than the Americans, let’s prosecute them! A first major criminal investigation into a flagship of the pornography industry. Let’s show that it is possible. Let’s make case law. I invite the DPCP to act.
Trivialization
Increasingly, sex education for boys is done through porn. Our society, like many others, is part of the trivialization of the representations conveyed by pornography: sexual violence, pedophilia, sadism, domination of women, unbridled sexuality, etc. This industry thrives on sexual exploitation as much as prostitution.
It operates on the principle of supply and demand. Each click on these XXX sites is an additional guarantee, a reinforcement of their economic power.
So do your part, stop clicking
Reference-www.journaldemontreal.com