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Pornhub blocks access to entire state of Virginia
- pfannkuchen 3y agoThis is impressive! I didn’t realize Pornhub even had a paramilitary wing, let alone one this effective. Hopefully the national guard will be able to handle the situation!
- kaashif 3y agoI had a similar thought. I think it should be "PornHub blocks access FOR the entire state of Virginia". Or maybe "from", but definitely not "to".
- lom888 3y agoI had to throw my VPN on to see this, PornHub in Virginia now shows a message by Cherie Deville against age verification as it's currently being enforced.
- tylerag 3y agoAnd if you're curious who Cherie Deville is, here's a mostly-sfw page: https://wikifid.com/cherie-deville/ https://wikifid.com/cherie-deville/
- hulitu 3y ago> She earned an average income of around $70k to $90k per month. The net worth of Cherie Deville is approximately $5 Million dollars as of 2021. She earns 90k but she is worth 5 Millions. Am i missing something ?
- hinkley 3y agoThe denominator. That’s less than 5 years to clear 5 million. Maybe 6 after taxes.
- julianbuse 3y agoits 70k to 90k PER MONTH, not per year
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- stevenicr 3y agoHow to quickly setup a VPN saas co? There are plenty of adults who want to access these sites but will never upload a govt ID to one. I could do some promos for VPNs, should I affiliate with one? Create a new service? Whitelabel from another service? I already imagine other ways to increase revenue while doing it.
- paddw 3y agoI've heard a lot of people start from whitelabel Nord
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- smt88 3y agoOn a more optimistic note, this is a painful (but relatively harmless) reminder to Virginians to participate in elections and elect better officials. Unfortunately, people vote out of anger more often than they vote out of gratitude. Something low-stakes like this going wrong is going to ultimately increase engagement without any lasting damage. Yes, it's a slippery slope, but Virginia isn't slipping rapidly down it (yet).
- sacnoradhq 3y agoThis is true. While Virginia is a purple state, there are countless instances all over America where undemocratic and unpopular policies are being rammed through. At some point, people must do more than vote when they are ignored.
- asjfka 3y agoSo, Utah and Virginia want their residents to surrender their private informations to shaddy websites and Louisiana is disposed to itself provides these informations.
- hedora 3y agoThis similar Arkansas law is attracting lawsuits: https://www.engadget.com/arkansas-passes-social-media-law-requiring-age-verification-230716388.html https://www.engadget.com/arkansas-passes-social-media-law-re... Since DDG suggested searching for “arkansas age of consent” when I typed in “arkansas age verification”, I had to check: https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/arkansas-statutory-rape-laws.htm https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/arkansas-sta... So, it’s legal to have sex with 15 year olds there, but you can’t show them porn till they turn 18.
- bunga-bunga 3y agoTo be fair, unsupervised porn access isn’t great on young people, speaking from personal experience. I don’t think sex would necessarily be as damaging as porn (assuming condoms are used)
- devwastaken 3y agoThe easiest way to get people to turn their brains off is "think of the children". My rights will not be infringed because of people that won't parent their kids. When that kind of thinking becomes reasonable then anything can be done for any reason just because children might have access because of poor parenting.
- synetic 3y agoThe appears reasonable to me. A 15 year old can’t purchase alcohol online and have delivered, right? We agree that is reasonable. There are long standing laws against children buying porn in real life. It does seem reasonable to me to require age verification for online porn.
- sterlind 3y agoand when the porn site gets hacked, your ID photo will be in the leak alongside every video you watched.
- WheelsAtLarge 3y agoHow are they doing the blocking. Is it by IP or geofencing? Neither of which is very accurate. How else can they do it?
- hardware2win 3y agoDoes it need to be 100% accurate?
- mock-possum 3y agoOf course not. It’s a stunt.
- Mindwipe 3y agoIronically the Virginia Mercury also blocks access to me, presumably due to Cookie Consent.
- isaacfrond 3y agoFor Europeans where this website is blocked: https://archive.is/gIbkY https://archive.is/gIbkY
- philihp 3y agoThere's a lot of irony in this.
- iso1631 3y agoIn 100 years time when history students look back at the triggers of the American Civil Wars, this event will be up there with Fort Sumter.
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- DeathArrow 3y agoI clicked the link to the article and I was welcomed with: "This site not available in your country" At least, Pornhub doesn't block whole countries.
- DeathArrow 3y agoI wonder how many people will be moving out of state because of this.
- mock-possum 3y agoI’m guessing zero
- red-iron-pine 3y agoprobably not a ton. NoVA and a few other areas like Norfolk are wealthy because of tech and the military, and they'll just use VPNs. Rural VA still believes the Earth is 6000 years old and will embrace the new law.
- yellowseth 3y agoA simple google search unblock pornhub will bring proxy sites that will unblock pornhub!! Very simple lol