Pornhub Owner MindGeek Sold to Canada's Ethical Capital

Post by jacooper » Fri, Mar 17, 2023, 1:50 PM UTC

frankzander wrote: post #10

"ethical capital" is buying a porn hoster ... facepalm

Post by stefantalpalaru » Fri, Mar 17, 2023, 3:13 PM UTC

faeriechangling wrote: post #8

qikInNdOutReply wrote: post #7

Thus we get to see a new form of company structure. The shell company as ablative material. You recreate new companies, which then "buy" the shunned buisness, while the old company is dissolved the new "hull" takes the fire and is then sold on to the next, new hull. Rinse and repeat till heat death or protestant ethics accepting sex-work as a normal part of human behaviour.

Well Pornhub's brand became radioactive less for promoting sex work, more for being non-responsive when people requested to remove child rape videos of themselves from the platform. They reacted to a scandal breaking out over this by removing everything from their platform which wasn't professional paid sex work which is nominally better vetted than amateur content.

Post by corbulo » Fri, Mar 17, 2023, 3:29 PM UTC

frankzander wrote: post #10

"ethical capital" is buying a porn hoster ... facepalm

Post by throw03172019 » Fri, Mar 17, 2023, 9:43 PM UTC

Am4TIfIsER0ppos wrote: post #9

throw03172019 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Instead of “you’ll never guess who now owns Pornhub”

Has it changed? It is currently "Pornhub owner MindGeek sold to Canada's Ethical Capital" both here on HN and on Reuters.