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Sept. 24, 2025 - Shameless Sperg - Chris Booth
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Rabbi Solomon Friedman, Porn Kingpin
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Hi folks, I am the shameless spurg.
I hope you're doing well today.
So today I want to talk about how a rabbi owns Pornhub.
Now there's a lot that I could say about the subject of Jewish involvement in the porn industry.
In some ways it can be a little played out even.
I don't think it's even necessary to go that much of a deep dive into it.
I don't have to suggest a giant conspiracy.
What I need to do is to get you, the viewer, to just make an evaluation of this and to see what it says about Judaism.
To see what it says about Jewish morality and whether you think that's acceptable.
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So I have an article here from the Forward.
That's one of the bigger Jewish publications online.
The headline reads.
A rabbi is overseeing porn hub.
That's actually not so weird.
Solomon Friedman is trying to improve ethics at the massive porn site by mere fox.
It's really not as shocking as it sounds that a rabbi has become one of the top officials running porn hub, the free internet pornography behemoth.
After all, the investment group that bought porn hub is called ethical capital partners.
And Solomon Friedman, the rabbi in question, and the investment company's co-founder and chief compliance officer is trying to clean up internet porn.
What would we do without this Solomon Friedman to clean up internet porn?
Most people might be confused by the idea of a religious leader being involved with a pornography company.
After all, isn't lust a sin?
Aren't rabbis supposed to be a kind of moral police?
Fuck no.
Fuck no, they're not.
And I'm trying to wake people up out of the illusion that they hold this position of moral authority that they should just be assumed to be righteous and concerned with decency and all of that shit.
We're gonna have to get that out of our collective system.
But Judaism is actually pretty sex positive.
Most Jewish texts about sex focus on understanding and regulating the act, not warning people of its dangers.
The Talmud is passages instructing husbands to have regular sex with their wives, emphasizing the importance of pleasure and encouraging experimentation.
There's even a tale of a student hiding under his rabbi's bed when his teacher has sex with his wife.
When the student is caught, he argues that everything is Torah, and he was just trying to learn.
He's just trying to learn, do you?
Mind you, Freedman was never a practicing rabbi.
He grew up in an orthodox family in Canada and was ordained in Jerusalem.
But then he became a criminal defense lawyer.
Making a name for himself defending extremely sketchy characters accused of such offenses as sexual abuse, possession of child pornography, and drunk driving.
So really Friedman's rabbinical platters are just fuel for a clicky headline, like the one published by Time.
His actual career is a pretty obvious fit for Pornhub.
Yeah.
It is.
A very obvious fit for Pornhub.
I ask you, the viewer, to put together his religion, his past as a lawyer, and his present as a rabbi literally running and owning YouTube.
What does that really have to say about his priorities?
What does that really have to say about his ethics?
And do you really think he's that concerned with cleaning it up?
Whatever the fuck that means.
The problem with porn hub isn't necessarily the fact that it provides porn, though of course plenty of people object to that too.
But porn has existed for thousands of years.
There's ancient Greek pottery with erotic depictions of sex and temples in India with various hard-to-believe acrobatic positions sculpted on the walls.
Besides, Pornhub is not only the best known porn site, But the seventh most visited site in the world.
Google is number one.
It's not going anywhere.
The more pressing issue for Pornhub is how it regulates its porn.
Until recently, anyone could upload a video, which has led to a lot of non-consensual porn and child sex abuse on the platform.
Poor moderation meant that there was little recourse to get videos removed, or at least to get them removed before someone had downloaded them and re-uploaded them somewhere else.
And some experts object to some of Pornhub's legal, professionally produced videos that encourage illegal activities such as categories that fetishize incest or scenes in which the actors pretend to be children.
While Freeman could theoretically apply the Tom Mudic arguments he learned as a young man in Jerusalem to the complex ethical questions posed by Pornhub, most of his work seems to concern complex technological challenges, such as how to digitally fingerprint videos or implement facial scans to ensure all the performers are consenting and of age.
Uh really it's more like porn up caught a bunch of flack.
A number of these big porn websites caught a bunch of flack and have dealt with a lot of pressure um from different groups on the fact that they have hosted so much so much illegal material um from child abuse to rape to whatever else and how unimpressive their response to all of that has been.
And I find it interesting here that they bothered to clarify that he's mostly concerned with like complex technological challenges, um fingerprinting videos or whatever.
So he seems interested in applying the technical end of this issue, but as far as the morality of it, I just I find it missing.
It seems like that doesn't actually weigh in as a very large factor here.
But hey, I'll let you be the judge of that.
Realistically, Friedman's Judaism is probably most relevant to white nationalist conspiracy theorists who endorse the lie that porn is a tool of a cabal of wealthy Jews used to control the world and decimate the white population by tempting them to masturbate instead of procreate.
Hey, if that's the conclusion that you come to, well, I I wouldn't blame you.
It's like I've said before, I actually don't have to lean on a conspiracy theory.
All I have to do is point out something and just let you be the judge.
What does it really say about them?
What does it say about Judaism?
What does it say about Jewish ethics and morality?
I don't have to put forth a conspiracy theorist.
This guy is a rabbi, he's supposed to be, you know, he's supposed to be an example of religiosity and upstanding morality, and he's supposed to be chosen by Hashin.
So what does this say?
I mean, if he owns this porn site and we recognize that porn is degenerate and not good for us, and that it has a terrible effect on the culture from marriage and divorce rates to diminished reproduction, it's just a fact.
You know, whether we want to say that it's a deliberate weapon of war, I think it is.
Or we don't say that.
You still have to square the fact that this guy is he's a chosenite who practices Judaism, and who is actually making the case that this is ethical.
He's cleaning up porn, after all.
And you know, what what would we do without Solomon Friedman to go in there and to clean up the porn?
But it's fair for you to have your own take on this.
You don't we don't even have to lean on a conspiracy theory.
What does it say about them?
Now look, I could do a deep dive into this discussion.
Again, I don't have to lean on a conspiracy theory d disproportionate Jewish involvement in the pornography business, which many of them will admit.
It seems like the hair that they're trying to split here is to say that it's intentional conspiracy to control the world and so on.
Well, it seems to serve as an effective weapon of war for dissolving the bounds that keep together families from preventing the formation of more families from deincentivizing reproduction.
It does have all these effects.
And so is the hair that we're splitting here really that well, that's not his intention.
I don't give a fuck what his intention is.
This is what he's doing.
I don't run a porn site, and I never would.
I'd much rather the whole thing be shut down completely.
I'd much rather be fighting and pushing and investing into the cause of shutting it down completely.
Not um propping myself up as some sort of moral leader by cleaning up porn.
Since Freedman got involved with Pornhub, videos have been circulating on X and Reddit, accusing him of encouraging pedophilia thanks to his criminal defense work.
Isn't that not like a fair deduction for people to come to.
Are people really that crazy for coming to that kind of a conclusion?
I mean, you act like they're just crazy paranoid schizos.
I mean, it's not our problem that Solomon Friedman has this troublesome past.
It's not our problem that he's given us all these pieces to put together and that it forms a really fucking bad picture.
That's not our fault.
So they but they always make it seem like it's our fault if we don't walk away from it with glaring reviews of Judaism and Jews.
Like if we walk away with an appraisal of them, that's anything other than licking their ass crack, well then we're the raw, we're in the wrong, you know, then we're the bad guys.
Others list them alongside other Jews who have been involved with pornography or simply with dating apps such as Tinder as proof of a Jewish conspiracy to destroy the white nuclear family.
Again, if that's the effect it's having, what are we arguing about?
You know, it is the argument just whether it's intentional or not?
I don't give a fuck if it is.
If this is your behavior, if this is what you're involved in, if this is what you're supporting, and I recognize all of these things as being really horrible for our nation, for our people, for our culture, then I still blame you because you're fucking involved in it.
And I'm not.
I wouldn't be.
And I wouldn't make up some sort of bullshit justification where somehow I'm painted as the hero and the arbiter of morality.
Fuck no.
You know, but here you are doing it, and you're acting like we're the crazy ones for objecting to it and for pointing it out and saying, and then you know, and then kind of funny, don't you think?
Well, the only people that care are white nationalists.
Maybe it's time for you to look into our position then.
Maybe you want to evaluate our position and see what you think about the ethics and morality of it compared to this shit.
And yeah, it is true that there's tons of them involved in pornography.
Again, I could do a deep dive on the subject, and but I don't even find it necessary when we can just discuss the biggest porn website on the planet and point out the fact that a rabbi runs it.
And what do you make of that?
And I feel like it's a significant fact personally.
It's something that's always stood out to me as being like, well, that just says it all, doesn't it?
I mean, doesn't it?
No religious leader I ever had in my life ever owned a porn site.
Friedman told the Washington Post that his children have been subjected to horrific anti-Semitism since he invested in porn hub.
So is it really so weird that a rabbi oversees porn hub?
No.
Only the anti-Semites.
No, we're saying it's not weird because we're saying it's what you do.
We're saying it's endemic to you and your culture.
We're not we're not saying it's isn't it weird that he owns no?
We know that.
Okay, we know this about you.
We know that you support all this perversion and degeneracy, and you say that it's just sex positive and whatever.
Well, the Talmud.
I mean, just like with the gender thing.
Well, the Talmud recognizes eight genders.
Well, is that even enough?
Maybe the Talmud's bigoted.
If it's just eight genders, what about the other uh well, how many of us?
64 genders?
What they were at like 72, the last count I knew about.
They probably have more neo-genders by now.
That's just funny.
So is it really so weird that a rabbi oversees porn hub?
Only the anti-Semites to everyone else.
Maybe he's the only guy equipped to make porn ethical.
So what do you say?
Is it to everyone else?
So that's just my point.
I'm saying that it's not so weird for them.
I'm saying that it makes sense that they're doing that.
Within their context, it's not weird at all.
And that's my whole point.
Is how not weird it is to them.
As you can see here, it's clearly not weird to them.
Well, what does that say?
I mean, if it strikes you as weird, if it strikes you as something that you wouldn't do or that you wouldn't accept out of a religious moral leader or whatever, and we're saying, like, look, they seem awfully involved in this industry.
Aren't you allowed to come to your own conclusion?
Aren't you allowed to have your own take?
How do you feel about this?
What do you think about this?
Forget what this Mirafux has to say about it.
What do you have to say about it?
You know?
What how do you feel about it?
I think it's shitty.
And I think it's ironic, and I think it's really illustrative of the points that we have to make about Jewish involvement in moral decay and the things that they do to rot the culture around them.
I also happen to know that over there in the Middle East, sometimes they'll hijack the airwaves of local television stations and start blasting pornography.
It can be a weapon of war.
Alright, it absolutely Can be.
So I must ask you then, do you think it might be uh getting used as one against us?
You know, if the result of it all ends up being a horrible effect on marriage, a horrible effect on the mind.
Because by the way, neurologically, it's terrible for you, it's horrible for your mind, and it's obviously terrible for marriages, and it obviously does prevent more reproduction.
If it results in all of these outcomes, does it matter to you whether or not the rabbi in his head was like, heh heh, fuck the goyam, I'm gonna fuck him over.
Do you I mean, is it that important to you for him to hold these thoughts?
What's more important?
That he's thinking of it that way, and that's his intention or not?
Or just the fact that he's doing it, just the fact that he is involved in that shit.
What's more important to you?
I know what's more important to me.
It's the fact that he's even doing it, and that apparently it's not weird to them.
We're the weird ones for thinking it's weird.
What kind of fucking projection is that?
And so I just thought that that was worth sharing and discussing.
Like I said, I could do a really deep dive, but it's a deep dive that's already been done.
If you look around online, it's a deep dive that's already been done very thoroughly.
So I always thought that this one example was kind of enough to make the case.
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