Cherie Deville and Mike Stabile

Terms of Service: A Pornhub Podcast

Society & Culture

4.3 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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On this episode, we speak with pornstar and journalist Cherie Deville along with Mike Stabile, the Public Affairs director for the Free Speech Coalition - the trade association of the Adult Entertainment Industry in the United States. This episode gives a detailed view on how cultural and political currents affect the sex industry, specifically sex workers, including the double standards for censorship, especially on social media, and the rampant discrimination against the adult industry, from financial institutions to housing discrimination. Terms of Service is a Pornhub podcast on censorship and the politics of free speech co-hosted by Asa Akira, a Pornhub brand ambassador and renowned performer, and Alex Kekesi, Pornhub’s Head of Brand and Community. With guests from the arts, film and fashion alongside sex work advocates, porn stars and academics, Terms of Service discusses the diverse, and often overlooked, aspects of censorship including deplatforming, cancellation, and shadowbanning, banking and financial discrimination, and the uneven treatment of adult performers on social media.

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0:15.2	Welcome to Terms of Service, a new Pornhub Podcast. This is a show where I, Asa Akira, a porn star, along with my boss Alex Kuchese, the VP of Branda Community at Pornhub, talk with people from
0:20.0	various industries and points of view regarding matters of censorship,
0:23.7	deplatforming, free speech, and the most interesting thing in the world, sex.
0:28.6	Today's episode features porn star and journalist Shuri de Ville,
0:32.9	along with Mike's De Beel, the Public Affairs Director
0:35.6	for this Free Speech Coalition.
0:37.8	Together, we discussed how these issues affect sex workers,
0:41.1	including the double standards for censorship, especially on social media,
0:45.6	and the rampant discrimination against the adult industry, from financial institutions to
0:50.3	housing discrimination. So Mike, I guess we could start with asking what is the Free Speech Coalition and why is it necessary?
1:01.0	So the Free Speech Coalition is the trade Organization for, Trade and Advocacy Organization for the
1:05.1	adult industry. We've been around for over 30 years. We got our start when the FBI and the
1:11.0	Department of Justice was cracking down on adult companies in the late 80s and early 90s.
1:15.6	So what was happening and it did, there's a lot that is comparable to what's happening today,
1:20.4	except it's the DOJ and the FBI rather than private companies.
1:25.0	They were coming after individual companies and shutting them down.
1:28.6	They were taking the power of the federal government to shut down distributors to
1:33.4	shut down producers to raid them there wasn't a lot of crime they could actually
1:37.3	point to but if you have the whole power of the federal government coming
1:41.2	after you it puts you out of business pretty quickly.
1:43.6	You can't operate your business.
1:45.6	You know, it costs a lot of money and lawyers.
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