State Pulls Job Training Funds For Fetish Video Co.

A California program that provides money for job training abruptly pulled its funding from one company after learning it was going to train employees in producing pornographic videos.Headquartered in San Francisco’s historic Armory Building, Kink.com calls itself the biggest video production company within city limits. It says it is a legitimate tax-paying operation that should receive the same treatment from the state as any other business.“We are a legal business in the state of California,” said Daniel Riedel, Kink.com’s Chief Operating Officer. “ We follow all of the state of California laws. “For three years Kink.com's employees have benefited from the state-funded training program, which provided money to allow its employees to take classes at a nearby organization, the Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC).“BAVC was giving us training for post-production skills,”said Reidel. He says the program allowed his employees “to learn more about using tools like Final Cut Pro, Adobe Photoshop -- tools of the trade that anyone would use in any production environment.”Riedel says his employees were learning how to edit, shoot video, work with lighting and more.But after the San Francisco Weekly newspaper made inquiries to the state panel that oversees the funding, that training came to an abrupt halt.In a letter to BAVC, the employment training panel said it has a long-standing policy that the adult entertainment industry is the lowest possible funding priority, and that it was not aware that Kink.com - under its legal business name Cybernet Entertainment - was an adult web business. The state program is funded through California business taxes. “If you're looking at it from a complete nonjudgmental perspective,” said Reidel. “We should be able to be in line just as Pixar or any other production companies that have been able to make use of this program.”Kink.com received close to $50,000 in training funding each year, but that money went to the company, BAVC, which was providing the training.

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