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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23788061
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/170743
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For every 1 porn site that has to comply with US regulations there are 100 that don’t and they won’t implement any IP blocks. Absurd that they really think this will have any effect.
it’s a foot in the door for online surveillance. has little to do with porn
But now they can legitimate all sort of bullshit measures to enforce that law. It will have an effect. Just not the one you expected.
Incredible. I never thought this would happen.
It would be a great time to be a VPN company right now.
Edit: On second thoughts, this is great, because it normalizes VPN usage too
You don’t think it would be simpler to just use one of the fifty thousand other free sites?
Honestly? Probably not. Pornhub is far and away the best porn site out there in terms of selection, ease of use, speed, and most importantly, they have the least annoying ads of any porn site I’ve ever been to. Other porn sites really don’t even come close
Not for long, with Net Neutrality forever murdered yesterday, ISPs will soon be blocking VPNs with aplomb and pushing their own. The whole Internet will become airplane WiFi.
We’re sorry, you seem to have an unacceptable amount of uncategorizable traffic. Please refer to our terms of service policy and upgrade your account accordingly to proceed.
And you thought DMCA notices were annoying!
Get yer hands off your satanic bits, American South, and your asses back in the church pews where you belong!
🎶 onward christian soldiers, marching as to war 🎶
PRAIZE BE 2 JEEBIS HALLE BERRY (fully clothed)
I hope PH is putting a list with the names of the representatives who are responsible for this on the home page for those states. With phone numbers and mail addresses of the reps offices.
Canada saw what was happening in the US South and decided the they need a friend. Canada is the process of passing their own “Protecting Young Persons from Exposure to Pornography Act”.
I feel like if there was some type of course that would teach young people about sex and porn in a healthy manner. We could call it “sex education”. This would be far better use of tax payers money instead of knee jerk bans and overreaching privacy violations.
Ya see, up north, we believe in a lil thang called FREEDOM! 😎
Ahem, good Internet person. In the south, freedom is going STRONG. It is taking away jobs, revenue (ex:PorhHub), medication, rights, health, safety, life, and freedom. Er…ah…um…
Traffic in truck stop bathrooms and motels near Sunday schools has spiked dramatically as the access to porn sites has gone down… Very weird coincidence.
So people better understand: Pornhub did not get banned by law. There is a law that requires porn sites to verify age with IDs in many southern states. Instead of complying Pornhub location banned themselves.
You left the most important part out; why is PornHub not complying? Understanding the situation requires knowing the very real concerns about privacy and data security as compliance requires keeping copies of IDs on file for verification.
IOW: Pornhub refuses to attempt to secure the PII of everyone who wants to visit the site. It’s not within their scope and any website that agrees to do this bullshit is suspect as fuck.
Afaik Pornhub is based in Québec, which has data privacy/protection laws through law 25 (French, will need to translate it). I’ve had some experience with it on some projects in the last few years, would not surprise me if that was contributing to the decision as well. I’m assuming they would still need to adhere to law 25 and whatever local laws in locations they operate in, could totally be wrong there.
Poilievre has stated he wants to introduce the same age verification laws, so it will be interesting to see how Pornhub reacts to those laws once they are introduced especially since they’re based in Québec like you said.
Personally, I’ve been stocking up, because you never know when there’s going to be a drought and it always helps to be prepared in life. I think we are in for some very dark years ahead of us.
It’s hilarious to me that you’re stocking up porn for the dark times 😂
Well I mean you gotta do what you gotta do, you never know what the future will look like lol
I think it’s just the tip of the iceberg unfortunately lol
It’s crazy these states want a prono site to to maintain thousands of personal IDs 💀
Especially for something socially embarrassing. That’s just building a blackmail database. Sure, porn use isn’t going to significantly compromise a lot of people, but for some that could end marriages and careers.
Particularly if one were to stray out of the heterosexual category. I wouldn’t put it past any of those states.
This rule is a trap. They are supposed to do it but there is no way to do this reliably (not even mentioning privacy issues).
giving a scan of your ID to the shadiest people on the web doesn’t seem a smart idea.
also: it’s not impossible for little jimmy to get a copy of his dad driving license…
honestly that’s based as fuck. I wouldn’t think the largest porn website would have the ethics to lose out on that much money.
I work for municipal government in Texas and I’m not allowed to write down or take a picture of someone’s DL number or date of birth, which is a bitch when we’re trying to cite a contractor named Jose Gonzales for illegal construction.
This is why VPNs exist. Happy surfing, folks.
17 US states are at the same level as Russia right now, when you look at pornhub blocked areas.
Remember when conservatives complained about the nanny state?
Always just an excuse to get rid of the things they don’t like, such as social security.
They absolutely want to regulate you on a federal level. They just want to decide which things get enforced/funded, and which should be left to the states/community/church, or what they really mean, nothing.
They want to control you on everything.
That’s not enough butter for that, that’s too much gay for this. They never wanted small government. They always wanted big government with the exact same ideals they have.
“You have too much pep in your step! 5 lashings for you!”
I’m sorry, pep is now regulated by gender and age. Oh, and if you’re young enough, please see the pastor or congressman in his office.
Republicans love big government, they just want the same or more power concentrated amongst less people. They’re all about that shit.
lol … as if … I’m sure there is a boom in subscriptions for VPN services in the south at the same time … especially for every political office holder at every level of government
Ha! You seem to be under the impression that the laws are enforced for them also.
“Laws for thee, not for me!”
Lol I agree with the sentiment, but pornhub isn’t blocked by law. It has chosen to stop offering services in those areas because of the relevant laws.
This is affecting them, too. But it isn’t hard for them to acquire a vpn, so not really.
Can they access the hundred other porn sites?
Looks like the big-name ones are either complying with the ID law or self-blocking like Pornhub. Smaller ones are operating as normal for now.
I actually just checked after seeing this post, no ID requirement popping up in Tennessee for whatever reason. I also realized I don’t believe I had ever typed pornhub.com into a browser before until now. If somehow i had ever been there it was from search engine results I guess, never knew they had a main page.
Thanks. It’s interesting seeing them blocked like this, considering how influencal the porn industry was for decades.
(My spell check is failing me for influence al)
influential
Thaaank you. I had the i and a reversed
Tfgames.site (not a commercial site, but a database of adult videogames involving physical transformations) stopped allowing access to IPs geolocated to at least some states due to similar laws, ID or no.
“Involving physical transformations”
From the article:
As of today, Florida, Tennessee, and South Carolina join the list of 17 states that can’t access some of the most popular porn sites on the internet, because of regressive laws that claim to protect children but restrict adults’ use of the internet, instead.
Yes, I saw that. It doesn’t change my question.
My interpretation is that they’re targeting the major players for lawsuits and ignoring the small fish. I could be wrong though.
Paywalled article
Paywalls can go to hell: https://archive.ph/EubRs
Paywalled articles can be easily bypassed by archiving the page. archive.is works well.
And by using uBlock Origin.
