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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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  • 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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        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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              • 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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                    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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                      • S [email protected]

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

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                                          Could just be their local internet quality. Which, still, not a VPN problem.

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