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hello_hellno t1_jcj03uy wrote

Reply to comment by EmbarrassedHelp in Pornhub owner MindGeek sold to Ottawa private equity firm by marketrent

Yep, the groups lobbing against it are right wing Christian groups that literally qualified cosmopolitan magazine as porn and tried to shut it down.

Yeah, porn sites have too much leeway that allows for people with bad intentions to easily get around their checks. But mind geek has been at the forefront of solving that issue by requiring ID from all uploaders,, deleting 10 million non verified videos and making sure their staff at all levels are close to equal male:female ratio.

Porn will always be around, get rid of the top company doing at least a decent job preventing exploitation and you're just giving the unethical fringe sites more customers.

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uzlonewolf t1_jcj026l wrote

Reply to comment by MagnarOfWinterfell in Pornhub owner MindGeek sold to Ottawa private equity firm by marketrent

> -Investing in MindGeek as the internet leader in fighting illegal online content.
> ECP believes the internet should be safe for all - with child protection, intimate image security and digital self-determination at the core of our values, and that MindGeek must play a leading role in the fight against illegal content across the internet.

Sure sounds to me like they have goals other than money.

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BernankesBeard t1_jciw2ib wrote

Reply to comment by extra-texture in Former Meta employee says staff were 'hoarded like Pokémon cards' by nastyjman

Correct. All the layoffs in the entire tech sector amount to that much out of a total US labor force of ~166m.

So if the whole tech sector got together and agreed to fire workers in a mustache-twirling, 17-dimensional chess move to stop the Fed from raising rates, then they would have managed to raised unemployment by 0.06 percentage points.

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drawkbox t1_jcivo4f wrote

Reply to comment by VelveteenAmbush in Pornhub owner MindGeek sold to Ottawa private equity firm by marketrent

Definitely a front. There has been some consolidation in porn sites and MindGeek owner has been all sorts of attacks. They even burned his house down. It was some organized crime stuff. This ECP is on the sketch list for sure. Sounds like Ethos Capital that tried to buy .ORG TLD as a private equity firm.

Montreal mansion of Pornhub owner destroyed in criminal fire

Investigations should start on ECP right away.

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Frymewitheggs t1_jciv8ry wrote

Reply to Amazon sued for not telling New York store customers about facial recognition by thebelsnickle1991

Not quite related to this story. But I was visiting New York in 2020 just before Coronavirus shut down the world. I wanted to show my Wife how an Amazon Go store worked. So I got the App slapped on my credit card and we wandered in. I futzed about picking shit up and leaving it down in wrong places. We leave and can instantly see our receipt.

We leave finish our trip and go home. About a month later. AmazonGo emails me saying they can't bill my card. So I update my card on my account with another. (First one was Visa second one was Mastercard)

They email me again telling me they can't bill me. I email back telling them they've got their choice of 2 cards to charge on if neither of the perfectly valid cards do not work. They have an issue with their payment system. Never heard from them again. So I got $20 dollars of stuff free from AmazonGo cos they couldn't bill me.

Probably not go in again in case there is a Beezo security bot ready to jump me.

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