Daily review 15/12/2020

Written By: - Date published: 5:30 pm, December 15th, 2020 - 4 comments
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4 comments on “Daily review 15/12/2020 ”

  1. Patricia Bremner 1

    Good to see ANZ stepping up to control investment in property. 40% deposit to control 30% of the market.

  2. KSaysHi 2

    The Children of Pornhub

    Disturbing read of the day. It's survivor pain x millions (views).

    Pornhub is owned by Mindgeek, a private pornography conglomerate with more than 100 websites, production companies and brands. Its sites include Redtube, Youporn, XTube, SpankWire, ExtremeTube, Men.com, My Dirty Hobby, Thumbzilla, PornMD, Brazzers and GayTube. There are other major players in porn outside the Mindgeek umbrella, most notably XHamster and XVideos, but Mindgeek is a porn titan. If it operated in another industry, the Justice Department could be discussing an antitrust case against it.

    Pornhub and Mindgeek also stand out because of their influence. One study this year by a digital marketing company concluded that Pornhub was the technology company with the third greatest-impact on society in the 21st century, after Facebook and Google but ahead of Microsoft, Apple and Amazon.

    Nominally based in Luxembourg for tax reasons, Mindgeek is a private company run from Montreal. It does not disclose who owns it, but it is led by Feras Antoon and David Tassillo, both Canadians, who declined to be interviewed.

    • arkie 2.1

      Today, Pornhub said that the third-party Internet Watch Foundation had reported 118 incidents of child sexual abuse material on the Pornhub platform, compared to 84 million instances self-reported by Facebook. Pornhub also pointed out that, as of today, every piece of content on the site is from verified uploaders, “a requirement that platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat and Twitter have yet to institute.”

      https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/pornhub-removes-unverified-videos-144330291.html

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