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elleng

(130,752 posts)
Wed Jul 20, 2016, 06:17 PM Jul 2016

Convention: Day 3

'The Republican Party platform warns that pornography has become a “public health crisis.”

But rank and file Republicans seem unlikely to take on the mammoth industry any time soon. According to xHamster, one of the leading aggregators of online porn, traffic from users in Cleveland spiked significantly this week as the Republican National Convention got underway. Viewership in the city shot up by 184 percent from its pre-convention average, surpassing traffic the site gets from people in large cities including New York, Miami and Los Angeles.

“This increase is unprecedented,” said Mike Kulich, a spokesman for the web site. “They’re making porn great again.”'>>>

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/07/20/opinion/campaign-stops/Opinion-Donald-Trumps-Convention-Day-3.html?

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