Those "fine" journalists at Dateline have done some digging and have decreed Toronto's own Liberty Village to be a hive of smut and spammers. Liberty Village is an up and coming Toronto district populated by dotcoms, marketing, and creative types. A variety of condo lofts and townhouses are devloping in the area, which is known for preserving the historical buildings that shape the neighbourhood. It is a perfectly nice neighbourhood, with such businesses as the Liberty Street cafe, Academy for Spherical Arts billiards room, Joe Rockhead's Indoor Rock Climbing, and the YTV Studios.
Journalism of this type often provides the material for The Daily Show. I wondered when Stephen Colbert was going to show up with a punchline about "Porn pouring forth onto the internet, like the sweet sweet maple syrup that can be tapped on every street corner here". I guess Toronto should try a different approach with Yonge and Dundas and just porn-it-up to get some attention.
One Degree covers the story with a number of follow-up links.
I can't tell which is more ridiculous, painting Liberty Village with a pornbrush, or their description of Liberty Village as: "dingy alleys of old industrial buildings" where "a man on the street tells us that the whole area here is all dot-coms. ‘Mostly, mostly porn though,’ he adds." For a truer peek at Liberty Village from the point of view of people who work and go about their lives there, check Accordian Guy's entry: Dateline NBC Re-Christens My Work Neighbourhood "Toronto's Porn Alley". Accordian Guy steps up to the plate as it is his workplace, Tucows (<-- that's not a link to porn), that was unfairly implicated in the news story.
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Chee really!! The Players Film Studio is in that building and that's where I did my internship. Have to say I didn't see any porn going on.
By the way I'm liking your blogs.
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