https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/9...-going-to-like
UK Porn Is About to Change in a Way You're Not Going to Like
How the government has given the shady company that controls the majority of free porn tube sites carte blanche to take over completely.
At 15:03 on the 1st of March, 2017, a senior representative from MindGeek ? the most powerful porn empire in history ? sent the British government an email.
"I?m sure Matt Hancock [minister for digital policy] is not in the business of inviting pornographers for a chat," he schmoozed. "But if it?s ever useful for me to talk to him directly (without stepping on anyone?s toes!), as a representative of the largest adult content provider in the world, I?d be more than happy to discuss any issues directly with him but also show our support for what I hope will be an effective bill! [smiley face]."
It was one of a string of emails ? revealed by a Freedom of Information request ? sent between MindGeek and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport through the winter of last year; one link in a chain of events that?s about to change the way Britain watches porn forever.
This, though, is not a story about porn. It is about power. It?s about how quickly state and corporate interests can climb into bed together. Campaigners claim the government, in a vote-winning attempt to protect children from hardcore content, are in fact about to hand what is already the world?s most powerful pornographer a monopoly over online porn...