Ignorant Idiots at boingboing are promoting the tubes and stealing porn

Bill · 2010-06-03, 11:15 PM

I've referenced boingboing here many times, it's one of the premier net culture blogs, based on a much older paper zine of the same name.

Well, some twit of a writer there is promoting redtube in a sideways swipe at the law-abiders in utah who actually pay for their porn.

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/03...cally-whe.html

Today, I finally caught that infographic on Internet porn facts that's been going around like a bad itch in a delicate place. I'm a bit skeptical about how accurate it is—if you scroll to the bottom you will see that the number one source is an article in the Daily Mail. But, it did make me think about how a single soundbite statistic doesn't necessarily tell you everything you need to know to understand the big picture.

Case in point, according to said infographic, Utah has the United States' highest online porn subscription rate per thousand home broadband users. My first thought: "Heh, dirty Mormons."

But wait! The fact doesn't actually tell us that the good people of Utah consume more porn than, say, Californians. It merely tells us that Utahans are more likely to pay a regular subscription for their porn. Sure, this could be an example of religious hypocrisy caught red-handed. (Ahem.) But, it might also be something far funnier: People who are so clean-cut and law-abiding that they don't even feel comfortable illegally downloading their porn. (Or, it could just be that the citizens of Utah are more likely to not be terribly Internet savvy, in which case, as a public service, I'd like to take a moment inform them all the RedTube exists.)

So, even tho porn paid for the building of the modern internet, and porn workers use their bodies and their brains and their hard work to create the porn that made boingboing possible in the first place, we get thrown under the bus by their own creatives.

I wonder how they would feel if we stole the money they get paid for writing those articles out of their pockets?

2010-06-03, 11:15 PM	#1
Bill Selling porn allows me to stay in a constant state of Bliss - ain't that a trip! Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,914	Ignorant Idiots at boingboing are promoting the tubes and stealing porn I've referenced boingboing here many times, it's one of the premier net culture blogs, based on a much older paper zine of the same name. Well, some twit of a writer there is promoting redtube in a sideways swipe at the law-abiders in utah who actually pay for their porn. http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/03...cally-whe.html Today, I finally caught that infographic on Internet porn facts that's been going around like a bad itch in a delicate place. I'm a bit skeptical about how accurate it is—if you scroll to the bottom you will see that the number one source is an article in the Daily Mail. But, it did make me think about how a single soundbite statistic doesn't necessarily tell you everything you need to know to understand the big picture. Case in point, according to said infographic, Utah has the United States' highest online porn subscription rate per thousand home broadband users. My first thought: "Heh, dirty Mormons." But wait! The fact doesn't actually tell us that the good people of Utah consume more porn than, say, Californians. It merely tells us that Utahans are more likely to pay a regular subscription for their porn. Sure, this could be an example of religious hypocrisy caught red-handed. (Ahem.) But, it might also be something far funnier: People who are so clean-cut and law-abiding that they don't even feel comfortable illegally downloading their porn. (Or, it could just be that the citizens of Utah are more likely to not be terribly Internet savvy, in which case, as a public service, I'd like to take a moment inform them all the RedTube exists.) So, even tho porn paid for the building of the modern internet, and porn workers use their bodies and their brains and their hard work to create the porn that made boingboing possible in the first place, we get thrown under the bus by their own creatives. I wonder how they would feel if we stole the money they get paid for writing those articles out of their pockets?