The number of states blocked by Pornhub will soon nearly double.
VPN companies
Pornhub prepares to block five more states rather than check IDs
Submitted 4 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to technology@lemmy.zip
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RobotToaster@mander.xyz 4 months ago
ZeroCool@vger.social 4 months ago
[deleted]sleen@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
VPNs are starting to be required for browsing the internet. The internet is getting ruined.
jballs@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Porn drives all sorts of technological adoption, so it makes sense if you think about it. If your product enables people to see some titties easier, it’s gonna be a success.
ninja@lemmy.world 4 months ago
There’s a phrase that used to be used to defend gun rights, ‘If you outlaw guns only outlaws will have guns.’
If you make porn illegal only illegal porn will exist. They’re not eliminating porn they’re just shifting the source of porn to websites that don’t care about compliance with US laws.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 4 months ago
the only way to stop a bad guy with porn is with a good guy with porn.
cows_are_underrated@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
This is 100% true. Its like with weed. People will consume it. They don’t care if its illegal. Illegal weed only causes the black market to control everything and fuck up consumers.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Ironically, yes!
Snowclone@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I would be ENTIRELY unsuprised if we found out these state governments were full of people who bought a lot of VPN company stocks just before the news hit. Particularly Utah. It’s practically free money.
hOrni@lemmy.world 4 months ago
If you remove the porn from the internet, there will be one site left, and it will be called Bring Back The Porn.
DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Shit shit shit, this one’s really rolling around. Dr cox? It feels Monty Python, but I’m hearing it in John C McGinley’s over affected JD drawl.
Mannimarco@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It is Dr Cox
hOrni@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It is Dr Cox.
ameancow@lemmy.world 4 months ago
The porn will never even go away. Pornhub might be popular but it’s a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the porn out there.
If you removed the porn from the internet, a hundred million people will all create their own internet and finally have a noble purpose for their saved stashes.
troglodytis@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Pornhub prepares to be accessed via VPN from five more states rather than check IDs
Obonga@feddit.de 4 months ago
In all honesty i can only hope that this forces some people to increase their tech-savviness.
DannyMac@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I miss the Internet when you needed to know wtf you were doing. Now everything is geared for easy, addictive consumption
todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 4 months ago
I keep telling older people who seek IT advice from me that knowing how your computer works is like knowing how your car works. And then I tell them that they’re the morons who think the engine is magic, and never change their oil until the car’s in the shop with issues and the mechanic finds what looks like mud in the engine.
Boomers hear that message, it turns out.
ameancow@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I read somewhere that a lot of people don’t even go to websites anymore, they just use apps for their social media and have no idea how to enter a web address or URL.
I feel like the last of a dying breed of mighty wizards because I can configure windows and know how to manage files.
ameancow@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It won’t. The average person in America wants the fastest, easiest consumable distraction or pleasure reward and takes no time to learn new things unless it’s dangled in front of them in bite-sized, easy-to-follow tutorials with all kinds of sparkles and chimes when they do something correctly.
They will go to some really terrible alternative that costs money. There are a hundred thousand porn sites right now hoping that they become the next big thing.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Just as the state legislatures wanted. This lets them ban pornhub without having to fight with their citizens about banning pornhub.
Mango@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Fuck them states.
Pornhub will lose more traffic to complying with the nanny bullshit than blocking entire states.
ameancow@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Pornhub’s audience is international, and in some countries they are far, far less backwards and socially repressed and Pornhub and similar companies get revenue without any controversy or danger of consequences.
They do NOT need these shitty states that are just going to continue to pearl-clutch as if humans aren’t sexual creatures.
Mango@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Your mom is a sexual creature.
pyrflie@lemm.ee 4 months ago
[deleted]onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 months ago
State Tracking will never be popular outside the religious legislative class, everyone else knows it’s an invasion of privacy.
Why won’t those people vote against the religious legislative class? Are they outnumbered?
TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 4 months ago
At a guess, gerrymandering. Absurdly defined district maps are used to split up areas where the opposition is strong and drown them with surrounding friendly voters.
Brain@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Why won’t those people vote against the religious legislative class? Are they outnumbered?
For a lot of people religion is like a salad bar or buffet, they pick and choose the parts they like and ignore the ones they don’t. That seems to extend towards their politicians, be my brand of religion and policy and I’ll let you do almost anything because at least you aren’t that other person.
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
That thumbnail is more like arse technica
Brain@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
If you live in a conservative run state, watch what they do, in Georgia on the final day of legislation they do “sine die” which we sometimes call sign or die day where they just push through a ton of shit with little or no going over it before hand, they passed one of these social media ID laws that targets porn too, and it went through without pretty much anybody knowing about it from what I can tell.
What kind of database of depravity to use against you are these people building.
Sauvandu60@lemmy.id 4 months ago
Pornhub should block more states.
SPRUNT@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Right!? Make this the election that was decided by porn!
May every porn site block every republican-lead district this election season with a full-page message stating that this is a direct result of republican policy. Then link to voting resources.
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Follow story to lemmy.zip/post/17644791
collapse_already@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
Rape rates declined following the code spread availability of internet porn, I wonder if they will go higher in the stupid states (I live in one). Obviously, VPNs neuter the impact of the laws some, but not everyone is savvy enough to use them. I feel bad for adolescent boys.
Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 4 months ago
the point of this was moronic to begin with 5 years ago during the first porn purge
“zomg there might be human traffickers and p3doph1les uploading porn!”—okay, don’t you want them to do that? Like, doesn’t it just give you more evidence if the traffickers have an easily accessible outlet to satisfy their ego urges? This is like banning chip sales to China except sex crime version
The2500@thelemmy.club 4 months ago
A little while ago I saw a map of the states where they colored in how likely a state is to pass anti-trans legislation. It was identical to Pornhubs map of how likely people in a state are to search for trans-porn. To the surprise of no one.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Pffftt… projection, schmojection.
Amiright guys?..