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The GDP scandal was one of those I still don't know if I understand.
They were breaking all sorts of laws in the process of making them, but the videos themselves were somehow legal? And it basically came down to the hosting platforms to remove them (which idk if they ever did).
Like this was a full blown conspiracy effort. What did they think was going to happen when they released the video of any victim and the victim asks in the video of anyone is going to see it?
Its not a complicated case, but I understand your confusion.
I think you’re not understanding that many if not most of the actors were ultimately willing. What was going on was the the producers were basically monsters who dehumanized their talent. Say, 5 out of 6 women would just say “fine, give me the money because I’m desperate”…but some of them would try to say no and be coerced/literally forced into sex on camera. Because the producers had dehumanized them…they didn’t see what they were doing was wrong.
Ok that's the part that I'm struggling with (yay all or nothing thinking). See I thought they were all saying no.
I unfortunately know a lot of about this case and the industry because I work in poverty outreach. The industry/this case is no different/not separate from stripping, modelling etc…it’s all massive grey area - some would call it a black hole.
What the GDP umbrella company was doing isn’t much different to what any amateur porn studio/modelling agency does: They’re these sex-trafficking pipelines that lure women in with promises of modelling contracts, commercials etc. Theres no porn company that posts an ad saying “porn actors wanted” (or very few). There’s almost always a continuum of interconnected agencies that start women off soft with calendar/bikini shoots but ultimately try to funnel women to hardcore porn…but will make money off them at the earlier stages…or just “leave” them in the earlier stages if they resist/make enough money. The “problem” with GDP was the male actors were basically rapists…didn’t take no for an answer if they wanted somebody in their pipeline to do hardcore. They would functionally imprison them by bringing them from far away and delaying flights and shuffling them between hotels. They were also using existing talent to coerce prospective talent…like you’d see in a sex work “stable”. Along the way they would make them more complaint with drugs and alcohol…implicitly telling them it would be over once they shot their scene. The majority of women could plausibly be said to have consented at some point…but not all of them.
Most agencies stop short of outright rape…but all agencies assault or coerce their talent to go deeper into the pipeline in one way or another. The woman who’s the subject in this case likely only went to prison because of things she didn’t know her male actors/owners were doing (although I don’t know the exact details, it’s likely they kept clerical people insulted from the acts).
Too much info? YW.
iirc, the only reason GDP got singled oit was because one of the latter woman to get screwed over and doxxed was the daughter of some big bank CEO
$ and connections is all that matters in this country
The first amendment is a very strong freedom of speech in this country.
For example: if (purely hypothetical) I threaten you with bodily harm or similar, I could be imprisoned such as one sentence I saw a headline about today, HOWEVER it is your right to tell people about those threats via the first amendment.
IMO the law just needs to catch up perhaps by transferring copyright to the U.S. as punishment for a crime so they can legally DMCA them on pure copyright grounds. But nonconsensual porn is a legal grey area technically. Underage laws are very much limited to the underage.
nothing will ever remove these videos from the internet, you can type GDP e# and find every single episode right now via regular search engines.
it's the internet...that's how it works, never going to change. dmca threats only matter against legitimate businesses with significant exposure to US markets, like Pornhub, which don't even host that content (anymore, they purged alot of their dubious "amatuer" content right around the same time as all this shit went down, iirc). To everyone else, your dmca requests are rightfully treated like toilet paper.
the best thing the US could do to stop these US-based sex trafficking pipelines is invest in public education, so their woman are smarter and less susceptible to them. (as well as invest in a proper social safety net, so only those that actually want to do sex-work get into the business), but the nation where scam-culture reigns naturally loves to keep it's population stupid and struggling