It seemed as if they hadn’t prepared for even the most elementary questions. Antoon was unable to say how much money the company made, how many complaints it received about nonconsensual videos, or w

It seemed as if they hadn’t prepared for even the most elementary questions. Antoon was unable to say how much money the company made, how many complaints it received about nonconsensual videos, or why it hadn’t made any substantive policy changes until Visa and Mastercard pulled their business. When an M.P. named Shannon Stubbs asked whether MindGeek “had ever monetized child sexual abuse and nonconsensual material,” Antoon refused to answer directly, and stated that such content was harmful to the company’s brand. He said that Pornhub was “among the top five most visited Web sites on the Internet.” But later, when Tassillo, MindGeek’s C.O.O., was asked why the company had waited until 2020 to refer complaints to the N.C.M.E.C., he said, “We are a startup and are still growing.”