1/ Okay, Zuck for Prez. I'm 100% behind this. All close to him should persuade him to run in 2020, not 2032. Why? vanityfair.com/news/2017/01/w
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2/ There is a theory most technologists have heard of, that the porn industry is usually the first adopter of every new social technology
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3/ It is also well known that the rise of social networks spelled doom for the early Internet porn industry
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Keep thinking that and you'll keep leaving politics to the most deplorable :)
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. yeah, first-gen porn sites were almost wiped out during the rise of social networks... I remember a few talks at conferences
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. No, the theory was that it's a kind of substitute product, the way any kind of community is the cure for any kind of addiction
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it's an analytically robust idea though with multiple lines of argument/evidence... probably knows more
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but whether or not it's been explained, rise of social networks correlated strongly with deep porn recession about 5-6 years back
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I think addiction has a strong genetic component (alcoholism esp has a male-line proven thing), but community prevents/contains
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the arguments I heard were made by *actual* porn site owners at conferences. Amateur porn/live performance was also a big factor.
