Solomon Friedman

“Alo is a company employs about, 1500 worldwide a full 20% of that Workforce Works exclusively on trust and safety now if you took those numbers and laid them over a Google or a meta or X you know the it would be unimaginable that that proportion of the workforce so that is expensive and from you know the owner side uh...”

— From Adult Site Broker Talk Episode 241 with Solomon Friedman of Ethical Capital Partners - Part 2, Adult Site Broker Talk (February 01, 2025)

“those who want to abolish sex work and that's an important word abolish they call themselves abolitionists like what could be more odious than co-opting the movement to end slavery Than You Know by calling yourself an an abolitionist so what do they want to abolish right they want to abolish people getting paid to do t...”

— From Adult Site Broker Talk Episode 241 with Solomon Friedman of Ethical Capital Partners - Part 2, Adult Site Broker Talk (February 01, 2025)

“the wave of age verification laws that is sweeping the United States targeting the adult entertainment industry designed to do one thing and one thing alone and that is make it impossible to operate in this industry and doesn't matter what your brand is how big of a site you are how small of a site whether you're a sol...”

— From Adult Site Broker Talk Episode 240 with Solomon Friedman of Ethical Capital Partners, Adult Site Broker Talk (June 25, 2025)

“using their title you need to understand that clicks don't make us money clicks cost us money traffic costs money what makes money is AD revenue and advertisers are only interested in those who can buy their products and every single one of the advertisers on any of the video sharing platforms operated by Alo only sell...”

— From Adult Site Broker Talk Episode 240 with Solomon Friedman of Ethical Capital Partners, Adult Site Broker Talk (June 25, 2025)

“We require the age ID consent of every single person who appears in content. When I tell you that we do that, no other adult platform or mainstream platform comes close to that. You upload a video, has three people, has four people in it, it cannot go live on the site until we on the trust and safety side have verified...”

— From PornHub Owner Solomon Friedman GRILLED on Content Approval Process, Valuetainment Short Clips (October 04, 2024)

“We have developed processes both on the human side but also on the software that we think the rest of the internet is going to need. We are three years ahead of where social media has to be.”

— From PornHub Owner Solomon Friedman GRILLED on Content Approval Process, Valuetainment Short Clips (October 04, 2024)

“We are right now the only free video sharing platform on the planet that requires age ID and consent verification for every single person depicted in uploaded content so it is impossible to upload content we're not YouTube we're not Vimeo we're not Facebook you can't just create an account and start uploading.”

— From Making Pornhub Safe: Tech Solutions to End Child Exploitation | Soloman Friedman & Sarah Bain ECP, Digital Defenders United (June 25, 2025)

“The company Aylo is a company of about 1500 people, a full 20% of that workforce work exclusively in trust and safety that's a massive investment.”

— From Making Pornhub Safe: Tech Solutions to End Child Exploitation | Soloman Friedman & Sarah Bain ECP, Digital Defenders United (June 25, 2025)

“I've always had the view that there is no tension between safety and profitability and in fact you know nobody wants to support or engage with a platform that is harming individuals that is promoting harm I think that people want to gravitate towards products which are which are safe which promote safety which have tru...”

— From Pornhub's Fight Against Online Exploitation | Kim Kelley, Solomon Friedman on News Talk Radio, Digital Defenders United (July 17, 2024)

“The Supreme Court United States has reaffirmed time and time again that you can't ban porn even if you wanted to okay which means it's here to stay so we have a decision to make either we can call it bad and call it mean names and stigmatize the people who are involved in it and therefore allow evil to flourish because...”

— From Pornhub's Fight Against Online Exploitation | Kim Kelley, Solomon Friedman on News Talk Radio, Digital Defenders United (July 17, 2024)

“I am here to separate conversation of adult entertainment and sexual expression from the topic of child exploitation because those two things do not coincide they should not but as of now they're being grouped together by well-meaning Advocates who seem to not be very Solutions oriented when it comes to actually implem...”

— From Inside PornHub's Safeguard Strategies: Exclusive with ECP Partners Soloman Friedman & Sarah Bain, Digital Defenders United (June 25, 2025)

“We are the only free content sharing platform on the internet that at present requires all individuals featured in content to provide the platform with their identification and consent.”

— From Inside PornHub's Safeguard Strategies: Exclusive with ECP Partners Soloman Friedman & Sarah Bain, Digital Defenders United (June 25, 2025)

“The US attorney's office concluded as follows that after a 30-month investigation where they got full and open cooperation from our company okay they say they got cooperation and access from our company they concluded this is the US Department of Justice they concluded that they did not find evidence of the violation o...”

— From The Truth About PornHub's Safety Protocols: Exclusive Interview with Solomon Friedman & Sarah Bain, Digital Defenders United (June 12, 2024)

“We want as a company for all devices by default to block adult content that is when you have a new device or a new user registering access to a device the default is no adult and if you want to be able to access adult on the device where we already have all our trusted information our banking information our credit car...”

— From The Truth About PornHub's Safety Protocols: Exclusive Interview with Solomon Friedman & Sarah Bain, Digital Defenders United (June 12, 2024)

“I think we're doing things that nobody has ever done before. We believe in surfacing content that showcases diverse sexual expression that give people a place, a platform to express themselves in ways they wouldn't be able to otherwise. We can be a platform for people who do not have a voice. That the work we're doing...”

— From Meet Pornhub’s New Owner: Solomon Friedman of Ethical Capital Partners, Jacob Racco (June 25, 2023)