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Pornhub Owner MindGeek Sold to Canada's Ethical Capital (reuters.com)
57 points by oipoloi 1191 days ago
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Thus we get to see a new form of company structure.

The shell company as ablative material. You recreate new companies, which then "buy" the shunned buisness, while the old company is dissolved the new "hull" takes the fire and is then sold on to the next, new hull. Rinse and repeat till heat death or protestant ethics accepting sex-work as a normal part of human behaviour.

Well Pornhub's brand became radioactive less for promoting sex work, more for being non-responsive when people requested to remove child rape videos of themselves from the platform. They reacted to a scandal breaking out over this by removing everything from their platform which wasn't professional paid sex work which is nominally better vetted than amateur content.
I hope the journalist who named the article gets a raise
Instead of “you’ll never guess who now owns Pornhub”
Has it changed? It is currently "Pornhub owner MindGeek sold to Canada's Ethical Capital" both here on HN and on Reuters.
I think the OP was saying the author of the article should get a raise for NOT putting a click bait title. It’s just a boring truthful title, which is great!
Why?
The Verge's article has much more context on Ethical Capital Partners: https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/16/23643975/mindgeek-pornhub...

tl:dr: SPAC likely

> If these are the same people, two years apart, what plan might they have for MindGeek? The previous plan was simple: restructure, “rehabilitate its reputation,” and flip it or merge it with a SPAC, according to a slide deck obtained as part of a late 2021 investigation by The Logic. The idea was called Project Narsil, a reference to the broken sword in The Lord of the Rings, and suggested that “the acquisition target is one of the most recognized and undervalued brands in the adult entertainment and technology sector.”

"ethical capital" is buying a porn hoster ... facepalm
Presumably their definition of ethical is different than yours.
If they didn't...somebody else would, don't you understand??
So?
Ethical indeed.