cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23788061
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/170743
Others have mentioned already - the issue here isn’t porn sites being banned, but states mandating age verification and the privacy concerns related to that verification.
I’m not sure I even care about an age limit being enforced for pornography, but doing so will necessitate de-anonymizing internet traffic (further) and make private browsing less feasible. There are other laws being proposed that would require personal identity verification on social media sites, too, and that would be the death of lemmy and any other anonymous shitposting sites that are left.
Regardless of any shitposting, just being forced to hand your ID docs to your Facebooks, Reddits, Twitters, etc with their track record of processing data is not an attractive proposition.
but doing so will necessitate de-anonymizing internet traffic
It’s always funny how people from the mass surveillance and selling intelligence data lobbies suddenly rush to finance and support this sort of political virtue signalling when it looks like it can gather support, even in the EU where they are going as far as to propoe of getting rid of end-to-end encryption.
even in the EU where they are going as far as to propoe of getting rid of end-to-end encryption.
And Australia.
Yeah i am not letting PH verify my ID just to view porn. I dont trust it and i feel it violates my privacy.
PH agrees, they aren’t checking IDs, they are suspending access to states that have those laws.
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.
The Red States are turning into the fucking PRC. Carry on…
I wish, I’d move there if they had half the benefits they do in the PRC. Universal healthcare, maternity leave, sick leave of multiple months, unions in all companies, workers councils in all corporations, rent controls, price controls… man, please let your comment come true.
I’d move there if they had half the benefits they do in the PRC. Universal healthcare,
Taiwan has universal healthcare. China has a crappy employer based health care system.
This and no need to keeo up with the news becase who gives a fuck as you can’t vote anyway, just goon, play games and work :)
Oh and they have great trains.
play games
All’s fun and games until your opponent messages “Tiananmen Square 1989 Winnie the Pooh”
BTW, they have their own challenges some not dislike the USA, all countries do. Just be careful and stay sane!
Hahahaha
Oh shit you’re serious.
.ml users have hilarious takes until you realize they actually think that way.
PRC?
Porn of the Republic of China.
The People’s Republic of China
China
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…
So… wait. How will conservatives watch all their sister porn now?
Like any god fearing christian; by asking her first.
They would need to learn the meaning of consent first…
by peeping through the blinds.
Remove the word porn and you probably have the answer.
So what I’m reading is that VPN business is going to continue to thrive. But that also is an age limit hurdle, I suppose.
Eh. Until the state does lots of IP blocking of foreign websites outside of their jurisdiction, there will always be a way.
proton VPN has some free locations, haven’t used the free version in a while because I switched to paid mullvad but iirc they’re: Switzerland, USA, Canada, Taiwan, Germany (I think?)
The servers are free but slower and you can’t torrent on them.
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
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!
You don’t think it would be simpler to just use one of the fifty thousand other free sites?
A lot of the other free sites are blocking users also
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
e621 was blocked in my state and… then they realized the law wasn’t being enforced and unblocked themselves
LMAO
Maaan, you just made me look up what that was 😭
Bro this is on you, you had enough context clues to know this wasn’t worth pursuing
I know, just curious.
Guess its back to finding nudie mags in the woods like the old days.
When I was a kid I volunteered at the local recycling center. My hippie parents were so proud of my environmental consciousness lol.
Or finding suriving anime centric stores, one of my friends would get hentai at one since they didnt even question why a teenager was there so long as he bought something other than hentai. That is how he got into Bezerk.
on the bright side at least torrenting will become more mainstream 😅
That’s not a bright side
Edit, for those downvoting, you realise if there’s more torrenting there’ll be more incentive to stop torrenting
The pirates are undefeated when it comes to this internet shit lil bro. They’ll never stop them. There’s always a workaround.
Right, a workaround because bit torrent is no longer as useful - more work for everyone, change in tech, meanwhile the best trackers get taken out, users need to switch up trackers constantly, content gets fragmented, quality drops, old torrents get lost or everyone is left wondering wtf to do for 6-12 months until the new new thing takes over. Remind me why this is a good thing?
There’s ALWAYS a workaround!
Okay, nobody’s saying there isn’t a workaround, I’m saying torrenting becoming more mainstream isn’t good for pirates.
Torrenting has been around for just about forever, and was massively more popular/mainstream one to two decades ago than it is now. Trackers get taken down, but bittorrent endures.
Again, not saying bittorrent is going anywhere - just that going super mainstream isn’t making anything better. Ask people who were around during the heyday how much better torrenting has gotten since the likes of OG Demonoid, mininova, supernova, KAT, aXXo, YIFY even Rarbg got shut down or left the scene.
It is!
- Pirate Party
Sure, if you want more active work to block torrenting.
Good luck blocking p2p connections.
And when all the good trackers disappear how’re you planning on making those connections?
Seriously? The same way we did before trackers existed.
Usenet is an option, I’ll go back to IRC idgaf. They’ve tried to stop the scene since it’s inception with extremely limited success. When they cut one head off, two more (smarter ones) sprout in its place.
Now that we’re here, it’d be a worthwhile project to resurrect Gopher but route it all over Tor/i2p/Freenet/whatever as a gigantic fuck you to the powers that be. It’s light so it could potentially run mobile, r-pis, cloud, whatever.
And you see this as an improvement?
So whats Desantis etal doing for gay sissy porn to jack to now ?
Matt gaetz can assist with some human trafficking I’m sure.
Now they can all rest easy that their liitle romps with their sister-cousins won’t be seen by the rest of the family
I live in Maryland. There is a law under review currently. It has not been passed. I joined a site, and was fine for a day. Went back on the next day and got the verification notice.
I looked up the status of the law, and freaked out thinking I was being scammed.
I live in a state where it’s not banned and it’s so annoying when iCloud Relay routes through one of the states in the South. I need to turn iCloud Relay off and proceed.
We did it! We beat beating it!
