us: Measuring the Child-Porn Trade
Unlike, say, the soft-drink or airline industries, the child-pornography industry doesn’t report its annual sales to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Yet in a press release ahead of a recent House of Representatives hearing aimed at curbing the industry, Texas Republican Joe Barton said, “Child pornography is apparently a multibillion … my staff analysis says $20 billion-a-year business. Twenty billion dollars.”
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