Is Stickam run by porn company?
Ex-worker says teen website has ties to big porn enterprise:
Have you heard the latest? It seems that the unmonitored cam to cam site Stickam is run by a huge porn operation. Or so says an ex-Stickam executive.
On its website and in press reports, Stickam says it is owned by Advanced Video Communications, or AVC, a three-year-old Los Angeles company that sells video conferencing and e-commerce services to businesses in Japan and other Asian countries.
But according to Alex Becker, a former vice president at Stickam, and internal company documents, Advanced Video Communications is managed and owned by Wataru Takahashi, a Japanese businessman who also owns and operates DTI Services, a vast network of websites that offer live sex shows over Web cameras. Becker alleges that Stickam shares office space, employees, and computer systems with the pornographic websites.
Becker recently left Stickam after four months there and said he was speaking out because the company was not doing enough to protect young users of its service. Becker criticized what he said was the practice of sharing employees among Stickam and the pornographic sites. The workers at Takahashi’s firms “only know how to conduct an adult website,” he said. “They don’t get it that there are predators on the Internet.”
Does this mean that Stickam is trying to expose the impressionable minds of youths to pornography? Hardly. However it does, in my opinion, undermine the claims that Stickam is serious about protecting it’s teenage users.
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3 opinions for Is Stickam run by porn company?
Liepar
Jul 11, 2007 at 10:15 pm
Ive always been suspicious of the motives behind some networking sites. Mostly from a political side (myspace saves the gov alot of spying time) but these newer webcam sites and stuff seems like a pervert’s paradise. How well are their staff screened I wonder. A pretty much endless supply of young adults on webcams, almost guarantees that someone will abuse their acess capabilities.
Id also worry about the ability to capture streams of young naive teens who do stupid things on their webcam, in which could be saved for personal use or sell them off to some of the underground internet sites, etc.
Brandon
Jan 28, 2008 at 10:48 pm
I’m a Stickam member, I frequent the site all the time. The rooms are moderated by other members, who either own the room or vote others in to mod the room. The rooms are not moderated by Stickam admins. While pornography does happen, in 99.9% of the rooms it is an immediatly banable offense. Check it out for yourselves.
CAPTAIN
Feb 24, 2008 at 6:26 am
I’m just searching for the .1% Kinda hard to find :(
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