XTube will close forever on September 5

The pornographic website XTube will close forever as of September 5 . The website is owned by the Canadian company MindGeek, which also controls other pornography spaces on PornHub, RedTube or YouPorn. The company has reported that, after 13 years of operation, XTube will be closed permanently, although it does not give explanations about the reasons for the closure.

MindGeek, the world's largest company for the production and distribution of pornographic material, has not explained the reasons for the closure of XTube

In fact, the news of the closure of XTube has been known not because the company has released the statement, of which there is no trace on their profiles on social networks. It was Laile Mickelwait, an activist against trafficking in women and sexual exploitation, who shared the XTube statement on Twitter.

MindGeek is the world's largest pornographic content production and distribution company. In addition to the pages already mentioned, the Canadian company owns the production companies of films and porn videos Brazzers Digital Playground and Reality Kings.

Complaints for illegal content

In recent years MindGeek has been involved in various scandals and legal problems. Some of the company's websites have hosted illegal content such as sexual abuse of minors, rapes or the so-called “ revenge porn ”, which consists of spreading intimate images of a person without having requested their consent.

Without going any further, this same month of June 34 women filed a joint complaint against PornHub for appearing in videos on the portal without their authorization.

The journalist Nuria Coronado told last February in an interview on TreceBits that “MindGeek / PornHub has managed to sell itself as the great Samaritan. How many people of the 42 million visits it has a year know that this website is the epicenter of pedophilia? the world or that the American NGO Exodus Cry has accused her of exhibiting rape and torture of children and women? How many people are aware of the enormous work of TraffinckingHub denouncing that the most viewed videos are of rape of babies or minors or that the platform has had to eliminate half of its videos, that is, 10 million contents, because they were full of sexual abuse to minors or that there is a millionaire claim made by 40 victims of sexual exploitation? ”Coronado pointed out.