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Who owns 80% of pornography companies?


7 posted on 01/30/2024 2:06:58 PM PST by MNDude
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To: MNDude
Who owns 80% of pornography companies?

Don't ask me. The first time I saw the name Only Fans in a news headline I thought it had to do with sports betting. LOL

8 posted on 01/30/2024 2:11:06 PM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: MNDude
The Catholic church? I never heard that before.
10 posted on 01/30/2024 2:43:57 PM PST by Vlad0
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To: MNDude

Fine. But who did the HOLY SPIRIT use to write the Bible?


11 posted on 01/30/2024 2:56:16 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: MNDude

Who were the Apostles of your faith?


14 posted on 01/30/2024 3:01:35 PM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: MNDude
Even the names of these companies are gross, so I'm not posting them here. But there is a Wikipedia article (so PG other than the gross names) that is HERE with a simple list of them and owners for many of them.

One of the biggest owners is company called

WGCZ Holding

. They own multiple sites listed on the chart.

They have been sued, and so there are normal news stories about the lawsuits.

What happened to the plaintiff who is suing WebGroup Czech Republic (WGCZ) and XVideos?

WebGroup Czech Republic (WGCZ), the shadowy corporate entity behind XVideos (the world’s most frequently visited pornography website with over 3 billion monthly visits), has been hit with a class action lawsuit brought by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation Law Center and an accomplished assembly of survivor-focused and commercial litigation law firms, on behalf of child sex trafficking survivors. Videos and images of these survivors—child sexual abuse material—were distributed via and monetized on multiple WGCZ products, including but not limited to XVideos.

Another of the big multi-site owners listed is Mind Geek. I found a mainstream news article about them too:

Porn is everywhere online, but its owners are out of sight

Despite this, basic facts about the company are largely unknown. That includes its main owner – a businessman called Bernard Bergemar, whose name is almost completely invisible on the internet but who has a claim to the title of the world’s most successful porn tycoon.

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MindGeek’s early lenders – including Wall Street names such as JPMorgan – made sure to also hide from view. And regulators have steered clear of asking too many questions.

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The man who defined the new era of porn is Fabian Thylmann. As a teenager in Germany in the late 1990s, he developed one of the first pieces of software that enabled website owners to charge for advertisements by tracking what visitors clicked on. It offered a glimpse of how lucrative online marketing could be if only there was something to attract crowds – such as free videos of people having sex.

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As a result of the deal, worth more than $130 million, Thylmann was desperate for cash to expand his porn empire, then called Manwin.

Thylmann did not respond to requests for comment but in 2016 told attendees at a start-up conference that venture capitalists had been wary, telling him “the numbers look great, but it is porn, so I can’t get this past my board”.

The solution came in 2011, in the form of $362 million in debt from 125 secret investors that – according to one financial backer – included Fortress Investment Group, JPMorgan Chase and Cornell University. The two firms declined to comment, while the university said that its investment managers’ portfolios are confidential.

His run as one of the world’s most powerful people in porn came to an abrupt end in late 2012 when German public prosecutors charged him with tax evasion. Soon after, he sold the company to senior managers Feras Antoon and David Tassillo, who renamed the company MindGeek and now run it out of Montreal. They both declined to comment for this article.

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Bergemar does not feature in the porn company’s corporate filings and declined to speak to comment. But several sources confirmed that, through a complex structure involving shares in MindGeek-controlled subsidiaries, Bergemar is the group’s largest owner and biggest beneficiary.

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MindGeek denies being the world’s largest porn company, a position that would justify growing scrutiny into its business, and points instead to rival WGCZ Holding, a Czech-registered company behind tube sites Xvideos and Xnxx that is owned by two French citizens who share a surname.

So, it does not appar to be "the Jews" if that's what you were getting at. Rather a lot of mainstream financial institutions have been neck deep in financing all of this.

16 posted on 01/30/2024 3:18:14 PM PST by Vlad0
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To: MNDude

Back in the 70’s(?) I seem to recall the rumor that Billy Graham owned all of the strip clubs in Minneapolis!


74 posted on 01/31/2024 2:35:04 PM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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