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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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  • F [email protected]

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

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    France passed a law requiring porn sites to verify age of all site visitors. Pornhub is blocking France instead of forcing its visitors to provide ID.

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      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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      • 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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        Teacher, leave the kids alone!

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          Anyone with more than two brain cells to click together could have told them this would happen. Some of them did. Not that they would/did listen.

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

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

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

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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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                    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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                          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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                              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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                                  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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                                    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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