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Passes, CEO Lucy Guo face class action over alleged child exploitation. Alleges: Guo disabled safety for 17yo, AI ignored CSAM, '18th birthday' explicit push, user spent $47K on underage plaintiff. (www.csvllp.com)
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Link to the 31-page lawsuit.

(...) The Complaint details a scheme where the named defendants, acting on behalf of Passes, recruited young women, that they knew were minors, to create pornography before they reached the age of 18, and to distribute that child pornography on the Passes platform to paying subscribers, both before and after the subject became of age.

The Complaint further details how Passes and the individual defendants took to disguise their scheme and to cover their tracks once their sexual exploitation of minor women was revealed, including changing its public representations about the compliance policy just two days ago, and also about its relationship with Celestin.

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[–] Kitathalla@lemy.lol 1 points 6 hours ago

Lovely how this is a class action lawsuit, and not a criminal complaint filed in at least a state court. Maybe I'll be wrong and after the lawsuit concludes they'll use all the evidence from discovery in something that actually matters, but it just reeks from the stench of 'just the cost of doing business' as the worst the people who were involved in producing and distributing child pornography will face.