Xtube.com. Where did it go?

[Guest]

Does anyone know what happened to Xtube.com.  I just tried to log-in and got a web page that said thAT it is no longer available. When did this happen and wny?

[backdoorjimmy]

There's another thread about this on BZ where @tallslenderguy explains what happened -

On 8/9/2021 at 6:41 PM, tallslenderguy said:

Fuck. i wondered why, so i googled it and got this:

"XTube, a prominent pornographic streaming platform, is shutting down as its parent company faces mounting accusations that it facilitated sex trafficking on its subsidiary sites. The platform announced this week that it was disabling video and photo uploads as it prepared to close down on Sept. 5"

The Justice Defense Fund is the force behind the XTube closure.

and is  related to what RawTop is discussing in his post here .

It's not a clear cut topic, and i do not doubt there are illegal things that happen with XTube. By the same token there are illegal things that happen in churches too, would they cry foul if a large organization wanted to close churches down because of some of the illegal activities that go on there?  i write that because i smell the religious right in this activity. Though they are getting sneaky and learning to hide who they are and couch their agenda in terms like "sexploitation," their definition of what sex should be is a lot narrower than they present to the general public. Laila Mickelwait is the Founder and CEO of the Justice Defense Fund the force behind it, which claims to be a non-religious, non partisan organization. Yet, is its head and founder being honest and open about her agenda? 

A quick google on Laila Mickelwait provided this : 

"In February 2020, the organization's Director of Abolition, Laila Mickelwait, launched a petition to shut down the adult website Pornhub. Mickelwait's #Traffickinghub campaign was co-sponsored the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, an anti-pornography organization formerly known as Morality in Media. By September, the campaign had gained over two million signatures, and on December 10, following an opinion column by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof alleging the site was being used to share sex abuse videos,[5] Visa and Mastercard stopped allowing Pornhub to accept credit card transactions.[6] Shortly after, the Canadian Parliament began hearings to investigate the allegations against PornHub.[7]"

"The organization originally developed out of a weekly prayer group founded in 2007 by Benjamin Nolot, a filmmaker and member of the charismatic Christian International House of Prayer. Nolot is currently the CEO of the organization. Exodus Cry says it is no longer directly affiliated with the church, but that it is faith-based and does offer prayer instruction on its website.[3][4] As of 2018, Exodus Cry was listed as a "related tax-exempt organization" on tax filings submitted by the International House of Prayer and has partnered with the church for campaigns since then."

Here's an article in the Daily Beast  that exposes the religious roots and complete intent behind their efforts:

"Mickelwait’s case against Pornhub hinges on several real incidents of exploitation—most prominently, a class-action lawsuit against the amateur porn operation Girls Do Porn, which The Daily Beast covered extensively last year and which resulted in $12.8 million in damages being awarded to the victims. But the campaign’s claims about itself are less accurate. While Traffickinghub presents itself as “a non-religious, non-partisan effort,” the organizing force behind it is neither. Mickelwait’s employer—and the organization running the Traffickinghub campaign—is Exodus Cry, a fringe Evangelical group with far-right ties “prayed” into existence in a Missouri church, with the goal of abolishing the commercial sex industry entirely."

i was raised in the religious right and was under their thumb for much of my life. Getting free of that evil force was a torturous process for me and many others, and this has their scent all over it. Make no mistake, these guys also believe gays are going to burn in hell and back in the late 20th century were trying to pass and enforce 100 year old laws that would jail gay people for having sex with each other.  I know this is real, i lived it, and it is fucked up. 

Reverse it. Lets say someone decided they wanted to shut down the evil church and tried to shut down the Church of Christ because of what Jim Jones did? Of any number of other christian leaders who have broken the law (and there are plenty of them, ironically, many who have been caught in sexploitaion). Do a google on sexploitation in the church and see how long that has been going on and how widespread that has been. 

Why isn't The Justice Fund going after the church?

 

[cyberdolphnow]

On 10/8/2021 at 3:20 PM, flexbtm said:

Does anyone know what happened to Xtube.com.  I just tried to log-in and got a web page that said thAT it is no longer available. When did this happen and wny?

Xtube suffered the shutdown due to its corporate ownership by porn hub.  It was the more down rent and rougher subsidiary than Porn Hub itself.  Once pornhub stripped all non-verifed content Xtube probably suffered even more losses in content  percentage wise than pornhub itself.  Not worth managing it anymore and I think that they offered verified posters transfer to other pornhub owned websites. 

R.I.P Xtube my first porn tube profile and favorites.  Xhamster is probably still the  best and least commercial than  pornhub has become 

[BlackDude]

I was already dying. $10 for one video vs. $10 for a month access to multiple videos. Easy math.