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“Porn” has done a historically awful job of filtering out exploitation and abuse, and made a lot of money from it.



On the one hand, yes. But on the other that's also been true of The Gap and Nike. Fruit companies have toppled governments, and people have been shot suppressing unionization in a host of industries.

I am not convinced that the morality is enough to convince the credit card companies to forgo their cut of that "lot of money."

I suspect that the bigger concern is the higher levels of fraud when many participants in a market are unusually uncomfortable turning to public courts to address disputes.


GAP and Nike abuse poor foreigners in poor countries. No risk there.


> “Porn” has done a historically awful job of filtering out exploitation and abuse,

Has it? Does it have an actual record of abuse* that is better than, for example, the meat packing industry, or janitorial services?

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[*] (I don't know what you mean by exploitation, I'm assuming it's just an expression of disapproval)


Is there a equivalent to something like https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/06/21/girlsdopor... when it comes to the meat packing or janitorial industries?


The big European porn companies in the 70s and 80s were involved in trafficking children to countries where CP was not illegal. There's really no comparison, porn companies are run by the scum of the earth.




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