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Originally Posted by INever
Google plays in the big leagues and gives money to politicians, gets in bed with the 3 letter agencies, etc.
Porn could have had a place at the table but the people making the big money chose to buy the best Ferrari for themselves.....instead of the mid-range Ferrari, and paying off some politicos and getting in the game.
So the result: GAME OVER.
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I disagree. I think that porn could have spent all the money in the world and still never gotten a seat at the table. Here is why: Conservatives are mostly morally opposed to porn. Any conservative senator of congressmen who took porn money would be seen as pro-porn and people wouldn't vote for him. It would be just like being a pro-life conservative, you would lose your job. Liberals might be more likely to take the money, but their conservative opponents would be quick to point out that they were taking money from evil porn which destroys families and harms children and it would cost liberals votes and rally the conservatives around their candidate so they could beat the liberal. An affiliation with porn would be a death sentence to just about any senator or congressman short of a very few who hail from ultra-liberal parts of the country and even they would be nervous.
There is also no real upside to helping porn while they are in office. Many of these elected officials take money from companies and do them favors so that when they get out of office they can get jobs sitting on their boards of directors or the companies will pay them extravagant amounts of money to come give speeches or they will make them the CEO of their company etc. The big payoff is often after they leave office. There no afterlife in porn in for these people so the upside of the risk they would take is very limited.