“We also want to protect minors”: the boss of YouPorn and Pornhub defends himself against blocking threats

2023-07-17 20:03:14

He is the new face of MindGeek, the Canadian parent company of PornHub, RedTube and YouPorn adult sites. By buying, 4 months ago, the world leader in pornographic video platforms with his investment fund Ethical Capital Partners, Solomon Friedman got his hands on an empire with comfortable incomes. This lawyer also inherited legal problems, particularly in France, where these sites, accused by child protection associations of doing nothing to control the age of visitors, are subject to a blocking procedure. While the Paris court offered him a reprieve by postponing his decision, he decided to break the silence in which his predecessors were locked.