Re: Indian censorship of porn now stupider
Atanu Dey <[email protected]> Thu, 6 Aug 2015 16:25:20 -0700
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On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]> wrote: > You will find that - on the other hand - Indians are major consumers of > FREE porn, and are quite loath to pull out credit cards and pay for > something, so it’d turn up in a statement that their wife or boss can see. > > Of course the free sites get their money’s worth of our horny brethren by > overloading them with popup ads, driveway downloads of shady adware etc etc. > Actually, the social media sites such as tumblr, blogspot and soup are really ad free. Porn on them is virtually infinite in supply and really free -- as in free beer. What puzzles me is why people pay for porn when it is available free. As an economist I find a nice puzzle: differential prices in what should be an integrated market. Price differentiation of course can be explained by imperfect information. Go figure. Atanu _______________________________________________ India-gii mailing list India-gii-IAPFreCvJWP2/[email protected] https://lists.india-gii.org/mailman/listinfo/india-gii