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Re:Pornhub Owner MindGeek Sold to Canada's Ethical Capital by troydavis on Thursday March 16, 2023 @10:22PM (#35192097)
Here’s the announcement from Ethical Capital Partners: https://www.ethicalcapitalpartners.com/news/ecp-announces-ac...
Re:Pornhub Owner MindGeek Sold to Canada's Ethical Capital by oipoloi on Thursday March 16, 2023 @10:04PM (#35191949)
I hope the journalist who named the article gets a raise
Re:Pornhub Owner MindGeek Sold to Canada's Ethical Capital by throw03172019 on Friday March 17, 2023 @12:22AM (#35193091)
Instead of “you’ll never guess who now owns Pornhub”
Re:Pornhub Owner MindGeek Sold to Canada's Ethical Capital by Am4TIfIsER0ppos on Friday March 17, 2023 @06:41AM (#35195309)
Has it changed? It is currently "Pornhub owner MindGeek sold to Canada's Ethical Capital" both here on HN and on Reuters.
Re:Pornhub Owner MindGeek Sold to Canada's Ethical Capital by throw03172019 on Friday March 17, 2023 @05:43PM (#35203319)
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!
Re:Pornhub Owner MindGeek Sold to Canada's Ethical Capital by fknorangesite on Friday March 17, 2023 @09:53AM (#35197074)
Why?
Re:Pornhub Owner MindGeek Sold to Canada's Ethical Capital by starkparker on Friday March 17, 2023 @01:13AM (#35193406)
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.”

Re:Pornhub Owner MindGeek Sold to Canada's Ethical Capital by theowawaysed on Friday March 17, 2023 @01:39AM (#35193577)
Canda being woke they are gonna ban some language and positions /s
Re:Pornhub Owner MindGeek Sold to Canada's Ethical Capital by qikInNdOutReply on Friday March 17, 2023 @04:08AM (#35194484)
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.

Re:Pornhub Owner MindGeek Sold to Canada's Ethical Capital by faeriechangling on Friday March 17, 2023 @04:40AM (#35194656)
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.
Re:Pornhub Owner MindGeek Sold to Canada's Ethical Capital by frankzander on Friday March 17, 2023 @07:20AM (#35195534)
"ethical capital" is buying a porn hoster ... facepalm
Re:Pornhub Owner MindGeek Sold to Canada's Ethical Capital by jacooper on Friday March 17, 2023 @09:50AM (#35197024)
Ethical indeed.
Re:Pornhub Owner MindGeek Sold to Canada's Ethical Capital by solarkraft on Friday March 17, 2023 @11:20AM (#35198197)
So?
Re:Pornhub Owner MindGeek Sold to Canada's Ethical Capital by corbulo on Friday March 17, 2023 @11:29AM (#35198347)
If they didn't...somebody else would, don't you understand??
Re:Pornhub Owner MindGeek Sold to Canada's Ethical Capital by barelysapient on Friday March 17, 2023 @04:53PM (#35202768)
Presumably their definition of ethical is different than yours.
Re:Pornhub Owner MindGeek Sold to Canada's Ethical Capital by DeathArrow on Friday March 17, 2023 @09:09AM (#35196591)