Porn CEO Goes to Yale, Speaks Out...Against Porn

Speaking to MBA candidates at the Yale School of Management, Steve Hirsch, the co-chairman and co-founder of the world's most profitable smut peddler, Vivid Entertainment, said he has issued a challenge to web giants Yahoo! and Google to step up their efforts to improve technology that would keep his products out of the hands and hard drives of children.

Hirsch told the Ivy League students, "None of the search engines and portals, but particularly Yahoo and Google, has taken any significant steps in this direction. Vivid will work with any company that is ready to make it much more difficult for children to be exposed, even inadvertently, to material intended only for adults."

Added Hirsch in what may have been a deliberate swipe at potential critics, "This is not about First Amendment rights, it is about protecting children."

Hirsch went on to tell the Yalies that much of his job is dissuading impressionable young women from entering the pornography industry in the first place, and if that's true, then he doesn't get higher than a two out of five when it comes up in his employee performance review. Because the porn...not exactly hurting for young, stupid starlets at the moment. And really, that statement by Hirsch seems a little disingenuous. You'd expect more out of a guy who bankrolled Savanna's Been Blackmaled and Retaliasian.

Hirsch oversees a company that is a major cog in a $15 billion annual industry, making adult filmmaking as viable than mainstream film, if not more viable because of its low overhead.