Corporate America and Internet PornIn this essay, we will consider the so-called "respectable" mainstream American corporations that are reaping huge profits from Internet porn, as well as the considerations related.Marriott, Westin and Hilton are known for their deliveries of pornographic videos to paid rooms, a practice that Omni Hotels stopped when confronted by the American Family Association. On the other hand, Internet pornography companies like Yahoo! At its x-rated Geocities sites, it has not been intimidated by AFA threats. Instead, it took strong action by U.S. Attorney General Ashcroft to intimidate Yahoo! in only a partial retreat from Internet porn. However, Yahoo! It still maintains marginally pornographic material on websites. AT&T is the largest American company that has adapted to the pornography boom. Its cable division, AT&T Broadband, distributes the explicit porn channel, The Hot Network, to subscribers; and this has unpleasant repercussions in the world of Internet pornography. In the spring of 2001, an interreligious coalition of religious...
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