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VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website.

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    wow, didn't expect that from france. I thought they, of all countries, would be less prudish than Texas about porn. 😬

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    Texas isn't the first. I think it was started by Germany? I know the UK banned women's orgasms and Australia banned hentai. Heck, India apparently banned porn altogether, ineffectively.

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    • passepartout@feddit.orgP [email protected]

      I'm shocked that this many people feel the need to disobey a rule that is only there to help the children. Next step must be to ban VPNs altogether, and enforcing all Internet users to be identified with their real identity (/s obviously).

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      Jokes on them I just have an incredibly high volume of DNS traffic

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      • W [email protected]

        I mean for context with the TikTok comparison using a VPN didn't get you around the TikTok ban unless you also made an entirely new account.

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        That's because they banned the accounts.

        Anyone who has an account on pornhub deserves their ban.

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        • K [email protected]

          Texas isn't the first. I think it was started by Germany? I know the UK banned women's orgasms and Australia banned hentai. Heck, India apparently banned porn altogether, ineffectively.

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          Germany didn’t do anything like that. Britain tried to ban porn like this but realized it’s a terrible idea and stepped back from it.

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            BTW, who even had the brilliant idea to block pr0n for French of all people?

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            • E [email protected]

              Political theater. "Won't somebody think of the children?" is an easy win for politicians.

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              Except it's fucking awful to wait for buffering over Tor or a VPN

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                Dr. Cox was right: “I’m fairly sure if they took porn off the internet, there’d only be one website left, and it’d be called ‘Bring Back the Porn.'”

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                Does oglaf count as porn?
                Asking for a friend.

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                • korne127@lemmy.worldK [email protected]

                  Germany didn’t do anything like that. Britain tried to ban porn like this but realized it’s a terrible idea and stepped back from it.

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                  Ironically, it was PornHub’s parent company that was set to run the UK age verification scheme.

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                    Political theater. "Won't somebody think of the children?" is an easy win for politicians.

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                    Plus an excuse to collect more data.

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                    • W [email protected]

                      Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Tumblr the Depraved?

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                      I hate how hard this made me laugh

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                      • saltsong@startrek.websiteS [email protected]

                        That's because they banned the accounts.

                        Anyone who has an account on pornhub deserves their ban.

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                        So, all the uploaders deserve a ban?

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                          Jokes on them I just have an incredibly high volume of DNS traffic

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                          That'll be really slow.

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                            Except it's fucking awful to wait for buffering over Tor or a VPN

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                            If you are paying for a VPN and you have buffering problems, change to another VPN, that one is shit.

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                            • passepartout@feddit.orgP [email protected]

                              I'm shocked that this many people feel the need to disobey a rule that is only there to help the children. Next step must be to ban VPNs altogether, and enforcing all Internet users to be identified with their real identity (/s obviously).

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                              The VPNs will be harder to ban. Not just from a technical standpoint, but politically as well. Big businesses will be absolutely opposed to VPN bans.

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                                Jokes on them I just have an incredibly high volume of DNS traffic

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                                • F [email protected]

                                  Out of the loop here, why did Pornhub leave France?

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                                  As one headline put it "PornHub pulls out of France".

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                                    That'll be really slow.

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                                    Can confirm, used DNS proxying to bypass cruise ship WiFi paywall once. It worked, but god damn did it send me into dialup flashback lmao

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                                      Blocking porn has got to be the most "why even bother" thing

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                                      It's not about blocking porn.

                                      It's always about control. Conservatives want to control how you consume sexual content.

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                                      • F [email protected]

                                        I blame the French for 120 days of Sodom burning my eyeballs, and I just skimmed the Wikipedia article. One of them chose to print that instead of burning the notes. Anyways, why is the hub being blocked in France?

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                                        Same reason it’s blocked in Florida.

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                                          If you at all think that people can be addicted to social media, you could draw a correlation from this to porn addiction.

                                          I know a lot of you either don’t think porn can be addictive and/or don’t think it can have negative effects on society.

                                          Ask yourselves why the logic works for social media but not porn.

                                          EDIT: I’m gonna have to do an experiment and see if I get more downvotes for saying negative things about porn or positive things about Israel. Unfortunately I think it’d be pretty close.

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