)When I look at everything going on in the biz right now and think about how much has changed int the twenty years I have been in it it makes me both sad and angry. It’s easy to see the progressive slide into the shit hole we are in now but every time I think we can’t sink any lower, of course we do.
Nowhere is this exemplified more clearly than with Manwin, they have bought everything we held sacred, the FSC, Testing, they have bribed people who should rightfully be shunned from our biz, when a sell out piece of shit like Mister Marcus gets paid to come out against the condom measure what does this tell you? Is Alia Janine or Steven St Croix being paid for their misguided notions? I say misguided because they spout the party line that its about choice, while AVN sets up a website touting performer choice yet some of the performers there say that if you want to use a condom the industry should black ball you…..Some choice huh? In other words as long as we like your choice we support it.
Both sides like to say this is just about an agenda, we have two guys, both with agendas battling it out, Michael Weinstein and Fabian Thylmann neither of them cares about you, but compared to Fabian Weinstein looks like a saint. Fabian has bought off everyone who is for sale, he has used lies like the law would make performers into criminals, and all the while, his most recent trophy wife the FSC marches in lock step with what he wants because she likes the money.
Speaking of money Wow has Fabian shoveled a lot of money into defeating Measure B one has to wonder what’s the payback? Or is this just another way of laundering foreign money by pumping it into “campaign donations” as AHF has claimed. Certainly the money is coming from outside the US. When I started tracking it down it was coming from some very very scary places, my work caught the attention of people who are more capable of that sort of thing than I am and I turned it over to them. That tells me something. How about you?
Here’s the truth about things as they relate to Measure B, yes there is an std problem, everyone in porn knows it, easily 75% of performers have Herpes, over the course of a year almost 100% of performers will be treated for Chlamydia and over half will contract or be exposed to Gonorrhea, often in the throat and other places where it isn’t routinely tested for,
I got an email from a performer who routinely went on drug runs to Tijuana with other performers to stock up on Z-pacs and other antibiotics so that they could self medicate before the monthly testing. This person assured me that this still happens and that dispensing these meds at a mark up are actually a bit of a cottage industry within the industry.
Nobody knows the incidence of Hep C or HPV and we should all be glad that HIV is very difficult to contract because if it wasn’t it would have wiped out performers ages ago.
And the thing is Steven St Croix, Alia Janine, and all the rest of these people pimping choice know that it is the truth. they aren’t going to admit it, but they know it, as do you.
I have no problem with choice, matter of fact i prefer it over any form of regulation but that choice HAS to include the choice NOT to expose yourself to potentially life threatening diseases as a part of your job.
Should have seen the Jessica Drake, Wicked porn girl parade in West Hollywood this weekend. Tounting a no on Prop. B signs and marching for AIDS walk. Has LA gone goofy, and or just stupid?.
Some porn stars in porn indusrty have feet in past well live in denial in porn indusrty of today. Those living in land of denial in porn indusrty of today gone wake up from land of denial find very sour truth has take place in porn indusrty. That truth is change from what it was past to what is today. Change is all,s such good thing. Greed has been good for wall street has been good for porn indusrty. Manwin is big enough fall when does happen porn indusrty what does mean??? When US law enforcement starts looking at Manwin off shore accounts see who fund them?? What think Manwin gone do porn indusrty holding??? My gues they well liquidate all there US holding in porn indusrty leave counrty with ever dallor they made and more well leave all people support them clean up mess. If your head scum bag Manwin pick run there porn companys here in US you have now have become head fall guy there gone throw under bus when all there trouble take places in US. It mean Fabian gone be laugh way out counrty with all his money well get explian US goverment who was bank role the company.
One thing is for sure, when the USA govt. brings down Manwin (for all those sneaky shady shadowy backers) it will be the end of the porn industry in America. They will tout it as Mid East or Eastern European gangsters running the porn industry and there will be such a bloodletting when its over porn will be back to where it was in the early 70s (an underground subculture).
Here little story might kick Manwin in balls porn indusrty to. Here scary part Obama all ready give Hillary Clinton green lite support this. What mean what was free on internet China Russia well be able tax through internet.
Is the U.N. Trying to Tax the Internet
So are they or aren’t they?
Earlier today, eyebrows were raised sharply when it was reported that the UN (United Nations) was considering a new internet tax on web content providers, including Google, Facebook, Apple and Netflix. The proposal, which was leaked today, has been allegedly introduced by ETNO (European Telecommunications Network Operators Association), a Brussels-based group representing such companies as Belgacom, SwissCom, Cyta, Eircom and Deutsche Telecom, and will be officially discussed at the UN International Telecommunication Union (ITU) in December.
The proposal would allegedly amend an existing telecommunications treaty, the International Telecommunications Regulations (ITR), by imposing heavy costs on popular web sites and their network providers. The idea is that huge content providers like Apple and Google should be forced to pay fees linked to usage – data heavy sites like those tend to use lots of bandwidth. It’s akin to the system used for international phone calls, where the recipient’s network sets the pricing for calls; before the availability of voice over internet protocol (VOIP) like Skype, U.S. phone companies used to pay billions of dollars in fees for the privilege of facilitating calls abroad. In the world of the internet, the fear is that this kind of “pay as you go” system would restrict the availability of the internet to users in developing countries.
However, despite the reports, ETNO says that it is not asking the UN to tax the internet. While the ETNO does not deny that it believes that the way that content providers use the internet should be changed, it stopped short of calling for an actual tax, saying instead that it wants telecommunications network operators to consider making deals with content providers. Additionally, the ETNO has hinted that significant changes to the ITR are sure to come; the treaty has not been altered much in the nearly 25 years it has been in existence while the internet has actually changed dramatically.
ETNO claims that changes would lead to a “new sustainable model for the internet”, with its Executive Board Chair, Luigi Gambardella, saying:
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The revised ITRs should acknowledge the challenges of the new Internet economy and the principles that fair compensation is received for carried traffic and operators’ revenues should not be disconnected from the investment needs caused by rapid Internet traffic growth. The ITRs should be flexible enough so as to further encourage future growth and sustainable development of telecoms markets, while respecting the guiding principles that led to the successful development of the Internet: private sector leadership, independent multi-stakeholder governance and commercial agreements.
But not everyone is on board with the proposed changes. Google’s Vinton Cerf has been vocal about the need to counter efforts to regulate the internet through the U.N., as countries gear up for the ITU. He worries that such regulations could restrict the freedom of the internet through such features as per-click taxes. Specifically, Cerf voiced concern that:
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The open Internet has never been at higher risk than it is now… A new international battle is brewing — a battle that will determine the future of the Internet.
It’s clear that the explosive growth of the internet has both created challenges and opportunities for the private sector. How the intersection of government and the private sector might affect our use of the internet is worth watching. ETNO’s proposal won’t be officially discussed until December – but expect lots of chatter about it until then.
By Brendan Sasso on TheHill.com
U.S. Ambassador Terry Kramer warned on Friday that a proposal to give a United Nations agency more control over the Internet is gaining momentum in other countries.
Proposals to expand the U.N.’s International Telecommunications Union’s (ITU) authority over the Internet could come up at a treaty conference in Dubai in December. European telecommunications companies are pushing a plan that would create new rules that would allow them to charge more to carry international traffic.
The proposal by the European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association could force websites like Google, Facebook and Netflix to pay fees to network operators around the world.
Kramer said the idea of an international Internet fee is “gaining more interest in the African states and also in the Arab states.”
He said the United States delegation to the conference will have to redouble its efforts to convince other countries that the proposal would only stifle innovation and economic growth.
“We support efforts to grow broadband markets–not just divvying a static pie of revenue between operators and governments,” Kramer said in a speech in Washington hosted by the Telecommunications Industry Association.
Democrats and Republicans in the United States are united against proposals to increase international control of the Internet. Congress passed a non-binding resolution earlier this year urging the United States delegation to “promote a global Internet free from government control and preserve and advance the successful multistakeholder model that governs the Internet today.”
But Kramer warned that the United States is gaining a reputation of stubbornly opposing any changes to the ITU treaty. He said the United States will have to engage in negotiations with other countries to address their concerns.
He acknowledged that many countries are struggling to secure their networks from hackers and cybercriminals. He said the United States opposes international cybersecurity regulation but supports efforts to help poorer countries expand their ability to combat cyberthreats.
“The U.S. is open to dialogue in ways to make such cooperation more comprehensive, building on work by existing institutions,” he said.
Kramer explained that the United States will not have to sign on to any treaty that it objects to, but he warned that if a majority of countries at the Dubai conference adopt an overly regulatory treaty, it could reshape the open, international nature of the Internet.
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These countires are all cash starved and grasping at any straw they can find to raise revenue for their countries. They hate anything thats FREE and they don’t get a piece of the pie so going after the FREE internet seems like a good revenue grabber to them.