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If Mindgeek shuts down or sells its business, the new owner will be US-based. There's a clear pattern that is becoming very visible now, where the US attacks E
by lizardactivist 4y ago
If Mindgeek shuts down or sells its business, the new owner will be US-based.
There's a clear pattern that is becoming very visible now, where the US attacks European or Asian owned companies in the social/content media space by leveraging baseless accusations about wrongdoings or some crime committed, then disturbing the service by threatening to ban it, or withdrawing access to payment methods.
It doesn't matter what space or type of company it is. If it is large enough and owns a big piece of a lucrative market, then it will be attacked.
The goal is to put pressure and allowing US-based investment firms to acquire the company, or to make it fold so US-based competitors can absorb the market share, and thus finally owning and controlling what is typically tens of billions of market share and steering the revenue into the US.
TikTok, Pornhub/Mindgeek, Spotify, and OnlyFans are some recent examples where exactly this method is being applied.
- rottencupcakes 4y agoI wish the US government was doing that. In reality the US government and people are so anti tech they prefer to stifle silicon valley as much as possible. They are not competent enough to really be doing what you claim.
- shakes_mcjunkie 4y agoThe issue with MindGeek is that they were hosting cp. Also, they have a massive market share on both the consumer and producer ends of the market and they use that power in really scummy ways. None of these issues are about stifling innovation or being anti tech.
- spencerchubb 4y agoUm... did you just say that the accusations against MindGeek are baseless? The accusations are very much based in fact.
- shakes_mcjunkie 4y agoPornhub was hosting cp. It's fair that they're attacked in that case to clean up their operation. Also, aside from the very much based in fact cp issue, a lot of the attacks are coming from US based religious conservatives. What evidence do you have that there's an international conspiracy against pornhub?
- astrange 4y agoI do not think the US government has an industrial policy to promote the local porn industry.