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We Don’t Know Enough About the Pornhub Acquisition

One of the world’s most important websites was sold and nobody cares

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Have you come across the CFIUS review of Grindr sale before? This is where your lead re Hong Kong points. A cutout’s purchase by a state buyer is after the user usage data not the future sales. If you want anyone to look at this it is CFIUS. This rivals the sale of Twitter in terms of American privacy threats.

@Hownow Bill Ackman’s anti-trafficking activism was admirable. One follow on effect is it made the historical user data that much cheaper to buy. I haven’t read the privacy policy so I don’t know if the parent and all its sites (it’s a bigger constellation of traffic than this one) sold the usage data but imagine the extortion potential in all of those email addresses and clicks overlaid a US federal employee database for example. Or how do the Chinese tailor make the honeypot for maximum effect? Who cares about TikTok?