[jstewartmobile]

Of course it will. The porn "industry" is fully-bankrolled psyop / money-laundering operation.

The viewers are not the customers. They never were. If any money is made off of them, it is pure gravy.

edit: And that I'm being grayed-out this quickly tells me there will be an exposé in the next month or so--verifying my original comment.

[saagarjha]

Do you really think it's more likely that "big porn" has astroturfing accounts that go around and downvote people like you who claim it's a money-laundering campaign, rather than commenters unhappy that you have no sources to back up your claims?

[jstewartmobile]

No. I think the typical HN commenter participates in a debate where the boundaries are narrowly and firmly defined by officialdom, and that any discussion outside of those boundaries will be treated as heresy.

But hey, nice job putting words in my mouth.

As for evidence, you also have bing and google. There’s no shortage of it.

[Redoubts]

This seems like a wild claim. Could you say a little more about it?

[jstewartmobile]

If you keep tabs on the history of organized crime, the general unwillingness of payment processors to deal with the porn industry, the quality of advertisers on porn sites, and the logistics of the porn business in general, it is a very obvious conclusion.

But I'm not a journalist, and I'm not going to scrounge through all of my books for a post that's probably going to get flagged and removed anyway. I'm sure the good journalists will eventually pick up the slack. There's bound to be another Robert Caro out there for this generation. We just have to wait and see.