Most concerning is Kolhatkar’s willingness to praise and excuse the anti-sex work, anti-LGBTQ+ evangelical voices that drive her article. Rather than engage in a nuanced look at the challenges of moderation on an internet comprised of limitless user-generated content-from Twitter to Snapchat to Facebook-journalist Sheelah Kolhatkar set her sites almost exclusively on one adult website, adopting the rhetoric of religious extremists.
We are shocked but not surprised by the New Yorker ’s misleading and misguided attack on Pornhub. CHATSWORTH, Calif.-In a statement Monday afternoon carrying the headline “FSC: New Yorker’s Praise of Antiporn Extremists Is Disgraceful,” the Free Speech Coalition took the named publication and writer Sheelah Kolhatkar to task for an article published today titled “ The Fight to Hold Pornhub Accountable,” which extensively cites staunch anti-porn activist Laila Mickelwait as a source, with little industry input outside a couple of brief quotes from FSC public affairs director Mike Stabile.
