Shameless Sperg - September 24, 2025


Rabbi Solomon Friedman, Porn Kingpin


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A rabbi is running Pornhub. What does that have to do with Judaism? And is it a good or bad thing that a religious leader is in charge of one of the world's most popular porn websites? Or is it just a weird coincidence?

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00:00:00.000 Hi folks, I am the Shameless Sberg. I hope you're doing well today. So today I want to talk about
00:00:04.840 how a rabbi owns Pornhub. Now there's a lot that I could say about the subject of Jewish 0.99
00:00:10.100 involvement in the porn industry. In some ways it can be a little played out even. I don't think
00:00:14.660 it's even necessary to go that much of a deep dive into it. I don't have to suggest a giant
00:00:19.160 conspiracy. What I need to do is to get you, the viewer, to just make an evaluation of this and to
00:00:24.640 see what it says about Judaism. To see what it says about Jewish morality and whether you think
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00:01:09.880 I couldn't do it without your help. I couldn't do it without you people tuning in and so I really
00:01:14.360 appreciate that. So I have an article here from The Forward. It's one of the bigger Jewish 0.77
00:01:19.300 publications online. The headline reads,
00:01:21.880 A rabbi is overseeing Pornhub. That's actually not so weird. Solomon Friedman is trying to improve 0.99
00:01:29.140 ethics at the massive porn site by Mira Fox. It's really not as shocking as it sounds that a
00:01:36.080 rabbi has become one of the top officials running Pornhub, the free internet pornography behemoth.
00:01:42.300 After all, the investment group that bought Pornhub is called Ethical Capital Partners and Solomon
00:01:48.620 Friedman, the rabbi in question and the investment company's co-founder and chief compliance officer
00:01:55.040 is trying to clean up internet porn. What would we do without this Solomon Friedman to clean up
00:02:02.240 internet porn? Most people might be confused by the idea of a religious leader being involved with
00:02:08.940 the pornography company. After all, isn't lust a sin? Aren't rabbis supposed to be a kind of moral 0.94
00:02:16.220 police? Fuck no. Fuck no, they're not. And I'm trying to wake people up out of the illusion that 1.00
00:02:23.000 they hold this position of moral authority that they should just be assumed to be righteous and 0.99
00:02:28.240 concerned with decency and all of that shit. We're gonna have to get that out of our collective system. 0.97
00:02:33.300 But Judaism is actually pretty sex positive. Most Jewish texts about sex focus on understanding and
00:02:39.860 regulating the act, not warning people of its dangers. The Talmud is passages instructing
00:02:45.820 husbands to have regular sex with their wives, emphasizing the importance of pleasure and 0.97
00:02:51.420 encouraging experimentation. There's even a tale of a student hiding under his rabbi's bed when his 0.92
00:02:57.700 teacher has sex with his wife. When the student is caught, he argues that everything is Torah and 0.77
00:03:04.620 he was just trying to learn. He's just trying to learn. Mind you, Friedman was never a practicing
00:03:12.180 rabbi. He grew up in an Orthodox family in Canada and was ordained in Jerusalem. But then he became a
00:03:19.540 criminal defense lawyer, making a name for himself defending extremely sketchy characters accused of such
00:03:25.920 offenses as sexual abuse, possession of child pornography, and drunk driving. So really, Friedman's
00:03:32.640 rabbinical platelets are just fuel for a clicky headline like the one published by Time. His actual
00:03:38.980 career is a pretty obvious fit for Pornhub. Yeah, it is a very obvious fit for Pornhub. I ask you,
00:03:48.400 the viewer, to put together his religion, his past as a lawyer, and his present as a rabbi literally
00:03:54.320 running and owning YouTube. What does that really have to say about his priorities? What does that
00:03:58.760 really have to say about his ethics? And do you really think he's that concerned with cleaning it
00:04:03.520 up? Whatever the fuck that means. The problem with Pornhub isn't necessarily the fact that it provides 0.98
00:04:08.960 porn, though of course plenty of people object to that too. But porn has existed for thousands of years.
00:04:16.820 There's ancient Greek pottery with erotic depictions of sex. In temples in India with various hard-to-believe
00:04:23.840 acrobatic positions sculpted on the walls. Besides, Pornhub is not only the best-known porn site,
00:04:30.080 but the seventh most visited site in the world. Google is number one. It's not going anywhere.
00:04:36.900 The more pressing issue for Pornhub is how it regulates its porn. Until recently, anyone could
00:04:42.380 upload a video, which has led to a lot of non-consensual porn and child sex abuse on the platform.
00:04:48.860 Poor moderation meant that there was little recourse to get videos removed,
00:04:52.820 or at least to get them removed before someone had downloaded them and re-uploaded them somewhere
00:04:57.580 else. And some experts object to some of Pornhub's legal, professionally produced videos that encourage
00:05:03.320 illegal activities such as categories that fetishize incest or scenes in which the actors pretend to be
00:05:09.340 children. While Freeman could theoretically apply the Talmudic arguments he learned as a young man in
00:05:14.840 Jerusalem to the complex ethical questions posed by Pornhub, most of his work seems to concern complex
00:05:21.060 technological challenges such as how to digitally fingerprint videos or implement facial scans to
00:05:27.520 ensure all the performers are consenting and of age.
00:05:30.820 Really, it's more like Pornhub caught a bunch of flack. A number of these big porn websites caught a bunch of
00:05:36.780 flack and have dealt with a lot of pressure from different groups on the fact that they have hosted so much
00:05:43.720 illegal material from child abuse to rape to whatever else. And how unimpressive their response to all of that has been.
00:05:52.460 And I find it interesting here that they bother to clarify that he's mostly concerned with like complex
00:05:58.560 technological challenges, fingerprinting videos or whatever. So he seems interested in applying the technical end of this
00:06:07.620 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
00:06:15.260 large factor here. But hey, I'll let you be the judge of that. Realistically, Friedman's Judaism is probably most 0.75
00:06:22.020 relevant to white nationalist conspiracy theorists who endorse the lie that porn is a tool of a cabal of wealthy Jews 1.00
00:06:29.180 used to control the world and decimate the white population by tempting them to masturbate instead of procreate. 1.00
00:06:36.340 Hey, if that's the conclusion that you come to, well, I wouldn't blame you. It's like I've said before, I actually don't have to 0.99
00:06:42.840 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
00:06:49.540 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
00:06:55.820 a conspiracy theorist. This guy is a rabbi. He's supposed to be, you know, he's supposed to be an example of religiosity 0.78
00:07:02.880 and upstanding morality. And he's supposed to be chosen by Hashem. So what does this say? I mean, if he owns this porn site,
00:07:10.540 and we recognize that porn is degenerate and not good for us, and that has a terrible effect on the
00:07:15.260 culture from marriage and divorce rates to diminished reproduction, it's just a fact. You know, whether we
00:07:21.080 want to say that it's a deliberate weapon of war, I think it is, or we don't say that. You still have
00:07:26.340 to square the fact that this guy is, he's a chosenite who practices Judaism and who is actually making the 0.80
00:07:34.020 case that this is ethical. He's cleaning up porn, after all. What would we do without Solomon Friedman 0.88
00:07:40.820 to go in there and clean up the porn? But it's fair for you to have your own take on this. You don't,
00:07:46.420 we don't even have to lean on a conspiracy theory. What does it say about them? Now, look, I could do a
00:07:51.280 deep dive into this discussion. Again, I don't have to lean on a conspiracy theory, disproportionate Jewish 1.00
00:07:57.080 involvement in the pornography business, which many of them will admit. It seems like the hair that
00:08:02.200 they're trying to split here is to say that it's intentional conspiracy to control the world and so
00:08:07.860 on. Well, it seems to serve as an effective weapon of war for dissolving the bounds that keep together
00:08:14.600 families, from preventing the formation of more families, from de-incentivizing reproduction. It
00:08:21.320 does have all these effects. And so is the hair that we're splitting here really that, well, that's not
00:08:26.740 his intention. I don't give a fuck what his intention is. This is what he's doing. I don't run a porn 0.99
00:08:32.180 site and I never would. I'd much rather the whole thing be shut down completely. I'd much rather
00:08:36.740 be fighting and pushing and investing into the cause of shutting it down completely, not propping
00:08:43.460 myself up as some sort of moral leader by cleaning up porn. Since Friedman got involved with Pornhub,
00:08:50.380 videos have been circulating on X and Reddit accusing him of encouraging pedophilia thanks to
00:08:55.760 his criminal defense work. Is that not like a fair deduction for people to come to? Are people
00:09:02.380 really that crazy for coming to that kind of a conclusion? I mean, you act like they're just
00:09:06.760 crazy paranoid schizos. I mean, it's not our problem that Solomon Friedman has this troublesome
00:09:13.160 past. It's not our problem that he's given us all these pieces to put together and that it forms a
00:09:18.320 really fucking bad picture. That's not our fault. So they, but they always make it seem like it's our fault 0.95
00:09:23.280 if we don't walk away from it with glaring reviews of Judaism and Jews. Like if, if we walk away with
00:09:29.800 an appraisal of them, that's anything other than licking their ass crack. Well, then we're the wrong, 1.00
00:09:34.420 we're in the wrong, you know, then we're the bad guys. Others list him alongside other Jews who have 0.57
00:09:39.840 been involved with pornography or simply with dating apps such as Tinder as proof of a Jewish 0.99
00:09:44.800 conspiracy to destroy the white nuclear family. Again, if that's the effect it's having, what are we 0.88
00:09:51.620 arguing about? You know, is the argument just whether it's intentional or not? I don't give a fuck if
00:09:57.040 it is. If this is your behavior, if this is what you're involved in, if this is what you're supporting, 0.99
00:10:02.600 and I recognize all of these things as being really horrible for our nation, for our people, for our 0.99
00:10:07.640 culture, then I still blame you because you're fucking involved in it. I'm not. I wouldn't be. And I 0.97
00:10:14.880 wouldn't make up some sort of bullshit justification where somehow I'm painted as the hero 0.98
00:10:19.500 in the arbiter of morality. Fuck no. You know, but here you are doing it and you're acting like we're the 1.00
00:10:25.380 crazy ones for objecting to it and for pointing it out and saying, and then, you know, isn't that kind of
00:10:29.600 funny? Don't you think?
00:10:31.380 Well, the only people that care are white nationalists.
00:10:35.200 Maybe it's time for you to look into our position then. Maybe you want to evaluate our position and see
00:10:40.220 what you think about the ethics and morality of it compared to this shit. And yeah, it is true that there's 0.99
00:10:45.240 tons of them involved in pornography. Again, I could do a deep dive on the subject, but I don't
00:10:49.920 even find it necessary when we can just discuss the biggest porn website on the planet and point
00:10:55.220 out the fact that a rabbi runs it. And what do you make of that? And I feel like it's a significant
00:10:59.500 fact personally. It's something that's always stood out to me as being like, wow, that just says it all,
00:11:03.920 doesn't it? I mean, doesn't it? No religious leader I ever had in my life ever owned a porn site.
00:11:09.260 Friedman told the Washington Post that his children have been subjected to horrific
00:11:13.200 anti-Semitism since he invested in Pornhub. So is it really so weird that a rabbi oversees 1.00
00:11:19.440 Pornhub? No.
00:11:22.920 Only the anti-Semites. 0.52
00:11:25.000 No, we're saying it's not weird because we're saying it's what you do. We're saying it's
00:11:29.220 endemic to you and your culture. We're not saying it's, isn't it weird that he owns? No.
00:11:34.840 We know that, okay? We know this about you. We know that you support all this perversion and
00:11:39.720 degeneracy and you say that it's just sex positive and whatever. Well, the Talmud. I mean,
00:11:44.820 just like with the gender thing. Well, the Talmud recognizes eight genders. Well, is that even 0.70
00:11:49.440 enough? Maybe the Talmud's bigoted. If it's just eight genders, what about the other, uh, how many 1.00
00:11:54.660 of it? 64 genders. They were at like 72, the last count I knew about. They probably have more
00:11:59.880 neo-genders by now. That's just funny. So is it really so weird that a rabbi oversees Pornhub? 0.99
00:12:05.100 Only the anti-Semites. To everyone else, maybe he's the only guy equipped to make porn ethical. 0.73
00:12:14.300 So what do you say? Is it to everyone else? So that's just my point. I'm saying that it's not so
00:12:20.460 weird for them. I'm saying that it makes sense that they're doing that. Within their context,
00:12:25.800 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,
00:12:32.780 it's clearly not weird to them. Well, what does that say? I mean, if it strikes you as weird,
00:12:38.220 if it strikes you as something that you wouldn't do or that you wouldn't accept out of a religious
00:12:42.240 moral leader or whatever, and we're saying like, look, they seem awfully involved in this industry.
00:12:47.460 Aren't you allowed to come to your own conclusion? Aren't you allowed to have your own take? How do
00:12:51.600 you feel about this? What do you think about this? Forget what this mirror fox has to say about it. 1.00
00:12:57.440 What do you have to say about it? How do you feel about it? I think it's shitty. And I think it's
00:13:04.400 ironic. And I think it's really illustrative of the points that we have to make about Jewish 1.00
00:13:10.080 involvement in moral decay and the things that they do to rot the culture around them. I also
00:13:17.340 happen to know that over there in the Middle East, sometimes they'll hijack the airwaves of local 1.00
00:13:23.840 television stations and start blasting pornography. It can be a weapon of war. All right. It absolutely
00:13:29.720 can be. So I must ask you then, do you think it might be getting used as one against us? You know,
00:13:36.960 if the result of it all ends up being a horrible effect on marriage, a horrible effect on the mind,
00:13:43.860 because by the way, neurologically, it's terrible for you. It's horrible for your mind. And it's
00:13:48.080 obviously terrible for marriages. And it obviously does prevent more reproduction. If it results in 0.99
00:13:54.160 all of these outcomes, does it matter to you whether or not the rabbi in his head was like, 1.00
00:13:58.940 fuck the goyim, I'm gonna fuck him over? Do you I mean, is it that important to you for him to hold 1.00
00:14:05.120 these thoughts? What's more important that he's thinking of it that way? And that's his intention or
00:14:09.660 not? Or just the fact that he's doing it? Just the fact that he is involved in that shit? What's
00:14:14.880 more important to you? I know what's more important to me. It's the fact that he's even doing it. And
00:14:19.520 that apparently it's not weird to them. We're the weird ones for thinking it's weird. What kind of
00:14:24.380 fucking projection is that? And so I just thought that that was worth sharing and discussing. Like 0.99
00:14:28.960 I said, I could do a really deep dive, but it's a deep dive that's already been done. If you look
00:14:33.020 around online, it's a deep dive that's already been done very thoroughly. So I always thought that
00:14:37.580 this one example was kind of enough to make the case. And well, with all that being said,
00:14:42.340 until next time, you guys take care. Cultural genocide. 0.70