From the article: “Unsurprisingly, this skyrocketed searches for the best VPNs. According to a SlashGear report sent to Mashable, searches for “Texas VPN” jumped by 1,750 percent in the past day. It also spotted a 1,600 percent increase for the phrase “How to access Pornhub.””
Lots of shady free VPNs out there from Chinese/Russian companies. Now instead of just letting people watch porn, they’ll send their data to a shady/foreign entity. The apps will ask all the permissions, and people who don’t know shit, will grant them.
Same thing will happen when they ban Tiktok.
Well done, You played yourself.
Just use proton VPN, the free tier should be enough.
Shady American services are OK though.
What if it was just lobbying from the VPN industry this whole time?
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I mean if you saw what was going on in Italy and had any clue about it, you’d have been smart and purchased it. There was a lockdown in Italy for like he saw it month before there was even talk of COVID coming to the states
At some point, Republicans will surely cross the line where their policies are so unpopular that people stop voting for them, right?
Not as long as the other guy is some dirty liberal who believes in socialist conspiracies like the holocaust having actually happened…
(Yes this is sarcasm, not actually saying the holocaust didn’t happen)
Not as long as there are minorities to blame for everything.
Something something… Leopards … Face eating …
I doubt it.
the old guys with piles of old greasy porn mags grinning with their remaining teeth.
They are trying their damndest with this and going after IVF, but so far it hasn’t moved the needle too much.
They are heavily entrenched in Texas. They will have to badly piss off most people enough that they all go vote in the same cycle.
Our state government has actually been getting much more radical over the past few years, because the only people who vote are conservative radicals, because everyone else is either apathetic or aware that their vote won’t matter unless millions of people suddenly wake up tomorrow and vote.
Millions of people not voting because it would take millions of people voting to elicit positive change and nobody is doing that is one of the most frustrating things.
To be fair current age verification is useless. We all know clicking a button does not verify anything.
Also we know that submitting personal data to a website to verify your age is terrible. Big no no.
I’m curious of what will happen in my country. Here in Spain government said that they will implement a new age verification system using Anonymous digital certificates. The government will issue those and you have to give your ID but the certificate itself it’s anonymous and the website won’t be able to know who is the person behind the certificate. While there’s no implementation yet, I hope they use the kind of anonymous certificates that, once expedited, the government also does not know who is using the certificate when serving as a certificate authority to validate its authenticity.
Let’s see how it goes. I’m afraid even while being privacy friendly with this system Pornhub will block access here to as a threat to other places. At the end is a private company and blocking minors from accessing their content cost them big money, and, of course, money is the only thing that matters to them.
To be fair, who gives a shit about age verification?
I do not care what your child does on the Internet.
Right. Why do I have to submit a retinal scan and 3 forms of ID to watch porn because parents can’t be bothered to learn basic computer skills and monitor their own children?
The right way to implement this is where they don’t even have any persistent identifier that could be used for tracking. They should only ever see a derived single-use signature that after verification gives them a yes/no answer and nothing more.
It IS possible from a technical standpoint to be able to do anonymous age verification. I can think of several methods that would work but the issue is I’d have to trust a company or the government with this information and trust them to not do something stupid with it like using it for nefarious purposes, selling it, or just not protecting it well enough. And with all the data brokerages and security breaches in the news there is no way I’d ever do that. Just not gonna happen. This data is just too valuable to trust any single company with it.
To me this is absolutely a 1st and 4th amendment issue. We are quickly devolving in an American religious state ruled by morality police.
In the Netherlands we have this app that could be used for it https://www.yivi.app/en it’s open-source, developed by an ngo in collaboration with a Dutch university. It’s not very widely used yet, but the idea behind it is really good.
Outside the issue of yet another competing standard to do the same thing, there’s an inherent issue with verification in these kinds of apps. That is, how the identity is actually verified for the account. Is it the government itself, a for-profit company partnered in some way with governments, something else? The issue begs the question, is this something we should have in the first place?
I don’t think so. And it seems to me that those who do likely don’t realize how much of a slippery slope it is to complete privacy erosion. Others are simply trying to live their life and this is very far down on their list of worries. Yet here we are, where services are built around the assumption that every user has a phone (and phone number).
Some relevant media to the topic: xkcd 927 Electric Dreams S1E9
the porn must flow
POON. Muad’Deepthroat. Feyd-Rawdog. The story just lends itself to porn parody.
In the later books it’s not even a parody
… Then they banned VPNs. Thanks to the Republicans we have scorched sky’s… We don’t know who stroke first, but without Internet we are now a real communicative country with people who… Billy! Put your rocks down man! I’m trying to tell you s story about how important Republicans are to us and yet you choose to distract the entire class with your rock tossing game!
The only thing that matters is texas loses
that can be understood more that one way.
I wonder how many people here never saw porn before they were 18.
When I was a teenager, we got our porn the old fashioned way, by shoplifting it from the magazine rack at the convenience store.
No, sir I’ve never heard of it.
I still haven’t
Saw what now?
They “right porn” to keep it entirely out of the public eye so they can follow their illegal and inhumane sexual shit in private. You’re searching for the real perverted bastards? The one’s who’s shouting against sexual freedom the loudest. Search their computers.
In a perfect world GeoIP should be illegal.
Let’s see if Elon’s satellites will bring uncensored internet to every inch of the planet.But I was so excited to watch Debbie Does Dallas #4,537. Ugh!
Texas is going to get a violent crime wave from all the pathetic loser incel rightwing men who are too dumb to figure out a VPN and too hateful to get another living breathing human being interested in getting naked with them.
The news stories will break that the violence is done by brown skinned immigrants who fought through poverty, uncertainty, cartels and any number of hardships to just get their fucking foot over the door into a place they dreamt to call home come but it will come out over and over again that it was done by another nauseating, bigoted, white dude lowlife who turned straight to violence after he couldn’t break up hatespeech orgies on gab with bouts of watching stolen porn on pornhub, pounding his member while yelling sexist slurs at the very people creating content to give him the tiniest, tiniest moment of pleasure.
I think Texas is one of the dumbest places on earth. Not the people, not the human brains within the geographical borders of Texas but rather the very concept of Texas as a white identity, a white story with white facts and white narratives.
The US is already so dumb it is hard to comprehend, but like a roller coaster where you think it can bring you anyyyyyyyy higher into the realm of self delusion in the service of hate, Texas kicks in another chain lift and drags you up up up into the sky.
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Your last brain cell is typing again
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Geez it must suck to be you. Bye
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50% of people younger than you make you think about sex? So are you perving on just boys or just girls? Or just those under 18?
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I think your browsing habits may have given you a false impression about an entire generation.
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You’re seriously trying to use AI as a source.
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God damn, I hope I’m not looking at the future of humanity.
Don’t worry, Lemmy is just home to a disproportionate number of whack jobs.
Please just stop posting. I have you tagged because I’ve noticed a consistent trend of bad/trolly takes from you. If you’re expressing your genuine opinions, that’s incredibly sad. If you’re just being an asshole, then fuck off forever
Wow, dude. Every time you look at someone younger than you all you do is think about sex?
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