In quashing Visa’s request to be dismissed from a case that alleges it conspired to help the pornography website profit from images of child sexual abuse, U.S. District Court Judge Cormac J. Carney said it wasn’t “fatally speculative” to say the credit-card giant  “bears direct responsibility” for the monetization of the material. (The Logic)

Talking point: Serena Fleites, the plaintiff in the case, was the subject of “The Children of Pornhub,” the 2020 New York Times column that said Pornhub, which is owned by Montreal-founded MindGeek, is “infested with rape videos.” Judge Carney suggested that Visa did indeed profit from such material, having “lent to MindGeek a much-needed tool—its payment network—with the alleged knowledge that there was a wealth of monetized child porn on MindGeek’s websites.” Visa Canada did not respond to The Logic’s request for comment.