Hot Money: Agent of Chaos

Episode 8: Inside Porn's Star Chamber

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Jul 19, 2022
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ANECDOTE

Performer Loses Income Over Smoking Content

  • Allie Knox earned about $1,000/month selling old videos until platforms began rejecting content for showing legal weed use.
  • Losing that income forced her to consider escorting or crossing personal boundaries to pay bills.
INSIGHT

Card Networks Stepped Into Policing Porn

  • Visa built an internal monitoring team to address fraud and illegal content as payments moved online.
  • The scale of porn transactions forced networks to create rules and enforcement systems for the industry.
ANECDOTE

The Windowless 'Porn Room' At Visa

  • Visa's 'porn room' monitored content from a windowless room at its San Francisco HQ in the 1990s.
  • The effort proved too manual and was eventually shut down in favor of outsourcing enforcement.
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