Mindgeek has a very interesting corporate past. This FT article is the closest I’ve ever found to an investigation but honestly, it reads more like a really bad soap opera than an FT article:

https://financialpost.com/financial-times/the-secretive-worl...

My understanding is that they used to "follow" that by making someone check a box saying the uploader was CPOE compliant.

The "secondary producer" (anyone who "publishes, reproduces, or reissues") has had limited enforcement and is what would cover Pornhub.

More recently they have changed to collecting legal identification of anyone doing an upload at least.

US law only applies to US companies

Well, up to a point; there are plenty of laws which apply to anyone deemed to be marketing to the US, especially financial services and online gambling, and Megaupload got raided by the FBI despite being in New Zealand.

Thats true, but I don't know if that necessarily means U.S law applies to those countries, as much as allies will oblige in certain cases such as the ones you mentioned and Huawei. And when I say I don't know, I very much actually don't know

Does PornHub "publish" the videos on their site?

My gut tells me that yes, they do. What's the alternative?

"We're just a platform your honor. We are not responsible for the rape content that we host on our website."

Seems like an unsatisfactory standard.

> Does PornHub "publish" the videos on their site?

Some, possibly not all (especially in a US legal sense, given CDA § 230), but it distributes all of them, and the law applies to distribution.

I’m no expert but couldn’t the same be asked for Facebook, Twitter and Reddit?