The CEO and COO of Pornhub's parent company MindGeek resign, after an investigative report on the site's years of hosting nonconsensual sexually explicit videos
Variety Todd Spangler
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Discussion
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@mikestabile
Mike Stabile
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The @NewYorker publishes a PR-level account of the work of evangelicals working to shut down the porn industry — allowing ample opportunity for them to whitewash their true motivations and barely challenging their most absurd claims. https://www.newyorker.com/...
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@ashleylatke
Ashley Lake
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So MindGeek leadership is resigning and press is positioning this as a response to that New Yorker article (that four sources say they were misrepresented for, and featured hate group Exodus Cry) https://variety.com/...
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@oliviapetter1
Olivia Petter
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Horrifying and fascinating how this has gone on for so long. Free porn should be illegal. https://www.newyorker.com/...
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@lydmorrish
Lydia Morrish
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Great piece by @sheelahk. MindGeek was able to remove videos while it investigated them, but would delay. This tracks with what I've heard from sexual image abuse survivors and gives more time for users/abusers to download and re-upload videos https://www.newyorker.com/... https:…
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@cyjiong
@cyjiong
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Really interesting read: how MindGeek/Pornhub became a secretive industry monopoly, how DMCA Section 230 has enabled “low liability, high profits”, cultural/feminist differences in porn regulation, and the banks' role in enabling bad behavior. https://www.newyorker.com/...
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@ayagruber
Aya Gruber
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The NYer piece: https://www.newyorker.com/... A very good response from a sex worker and advocate: https://www.thedailybeast.com/ .... The argument the NYer makes about antisex, antigay evangelical groups being FEMINIST is head-scratching to this scholar of feminism and sexuality…
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@tednesi
Ted Nesi
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“I felt like people needed to know the most popular porn site in the world was populated with crime-scene videos.” https://www.newyorker.com/...
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@hkanji
@hkanji
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The wild west of Internet porn—its multitude of destructive, illegal uses, stunning lack of accountability and anonymity closely guarded by the men running its most visited site, Pornhub—is dissected expertly by Sheelah Kolhatkar https://www.newyorker.com/...