I agree, let's get all these questions answered.
But the fact that people we "don't know" yet are hovering around our business, and seem to be motivated by FAT CASH should neither surprise us nor appall us. If you think we need allies from outside the industry to survive -- and you may not, but if you think we do -- do you expect that those allies will be motivated by ideology alone?
Limits, in one form or other, are GOING TO BE imposed -- there is simply no denying that.
When I say the following I am NOT speaking specifically about the .XXX issue -- but in GENERAL...
We are in the extraordinarily unique position of being an industry with both the enormous profitability of a "Sin Biz", and a political / ideological ARGUMENT for why we should be allowed to exist. Alcohol didn't have that. Gambling didn't have that.
Both of those industries faced crisis, and both emerged from crisis, having configured themselves for long-term, legal prosperity. How did they do it? They did it by forging (and accepting) alliances with government and with other industries with which they could partner to significant mutual benefit.
Allowing other people we have never heard of to make some money (at least partly) on our backs is probably not something we're going to be able to avoid. Plus it seems a little hypocritical that we should cry First Amendent whenever we feel "censored", then act suspicious of anybody who wants to throw us a rope if we pay them for it --
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