Pornhub Is Now Blocked in Almost All of the U.S. South
As of today, three more states join the list of 17 that can't access Pornhub because of age verification laws.
Boobies evil, guns blessed.
So, they've gone full Zardoz then?
Boobies can cause pleasure which is bad for nazi power grabbing.
Pleasure for free
Testing the waters to require an ID for Internet usage
Luckily there are ways around this using mesh networks etc..
The hard part is the usage of one gives it away unless the average person is using those bypasses.
They're probably upset the annual Pornhub report keeps putting out that they jerk it to trans people. More than anyone else.
In totally unrelated news, VPN services are thriving and have many other useful features.
Musk tomorrow - subscribe to my Starlink service so you can bypass the restrictions...
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It is much bigger. This is the strategy for closing the last bastion of democracy on the anonymous freedom internet. By normalizing identification, it sets the legal precedent needed to force it upon everyone. Normalizing the behavior in the idiot South means they will fall in line like the zombies they stereotypically are when the main legislation is pushed through.
I keep seeing these jokes, but the very obvious next step is the ban vpns. They're absolutely going to do that. They already want to. Authoritarians hate vpns.
This is dumb. Any decent VPN will provide exit nodes in non restricted states. Getting around this block is trivial
Ha ha, lovely!
The majority of people do not have vpns
...yet.
Also happens to open the gateway to the high seas... of piracy.
It's not trivial for most. In a space like lemmy? Sure, easy money. I have a Digital Ocean droplet out of Amsterdam, had it for years, $5 a month. No one here is impressed.
The vast majority of people have no clue what a VPN is. Stop 100 people on the street. Bet <1% can say what the acronym stands for, let alone how or why one is used.
Until the federal government sees VPN providers "subverting the state" by "enabling" age verification laws to be bypassed
Damn, and that's like, the only way to see boobs and dicks and stuff.
VPN services making bank right now
Wank bank
Florida also "blocked" kids under 14 from social media. My 12-yo and I had a solid laugh.
This all may turn out to be a good thing! Kids will learn more about security and internet!
I don't think I give a shit if kids see porn.
If that's the thing we're worried about, and the price of dealing with it is strangling privacy, then the problem is not worth solving.
There's a lot worse on the internet. There's a lot worse on daytime television. Blood and guts and cults and informercials. Desirable crude entertainment is obviously not worth locking down the internet. I mean for fuck's sake, at least with "four horsemen" excuses, like terrorism and money laundering, we agree that those things are bad.
Things that tucked me up on the internet as a teenager wasn't porn, most of us knew that was fake. It was the live leak shit that really broke millennials
LOL sounds like a thinly veiled effort to get more good ol' boys to go fight for Russia. North Korean soldiers there are going crazy over porn, after having restricted internet access their whole lives.
Interestingly, but Pornhub is not blocked in Russia. It just asks for age verification by vk(vkontakte) account on the main page if you open it from Russia. But unfortunately, those who do not have such an account will not be able to enter or they will need to use a vpn. :)
Guess who's law makers own stock in VPN services?
Which states banned it?
States are requiring age verification by giving your id. Sites like PH just said nah and block you from viewing the site if you're in one of those states.