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Porn sites are banning Texas
- hindsightbias 3y agoHow do Starlink IPs work? States indexed by GPS lookup? Maybe put pornhub on a lunar cluster. Bit of lag, but more old skool.
- rvnx 3y agohttps://geoip.starlinkisp.net/feed.csv https://geoip.starlinkisp.net/feed.csv
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- wkat4242 3y agoThe Netherlands is banning library genesis, Spain was banning telegram.. soon the icky way to use the internet will be via 24/7 VPN. But in what jurisdiction? It seems like everyone is banning something now.
- bitwize 3y agoLet me tell you about this video's sponsor, NordVPN. NordVPN lets you change your country of origin. I like to watch Sherlock on Netflix, but Netflix in the USA doesn't have Sherlock, so I switch my country to the UK, and look, there's Sherlock!
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- joecot 3y agoYeah, it's going to be an easy sell to regulate VPNs more strongly when Nord and others actively advertise that they can be used to avoid regional licensing of content.
- andrewnicolalde 3y agoThey do, currently!
- autoexec 3y agoIt seems like the problem here is the regional licensing of content. If people go to such length to get around it, we should just eliminate the enforcement of arbitrary rules that want to prevent this isn't a global economy.
- leosanchez 3y agoMaybe some third world countries offers itself as a Internet Heaven.
- jj999 3y agoNobody likes international sanctions nor getting liberated.
- mywittyname 3y agoVPNs will be highly regulated at some point. I'm somewhat surprised that this hasn't occurred already. I suspect the reason is that there's not been a catalyzing event that governments usually need in order to make restrictions palatable to people. This is probably designed to be that event. Enough people will buy the "think of the children" angle used to ban porn. And that legal framework can then be leveraged to regulate VPNs. First, to stop them from being used to bypass these porn restrictions, but then expanded to prevent content restriction bypassing, then to preventing online piracy, then preventing "subversive activities." Pornography is at the vanguard of free speech.
- Der_Einzige 3y agoYes it is, and it's not a coincidence that one of the few places with de-facto "free speech" (de-facto copyright laws non enforced) is Generative AI - which is also utilized extremely heavily for porn (see civit.ai)
- matteoraso 3y ago>I'm somewhat surprised that this hasn't occurred already. A lot of VPNs keep logs, so they can be used to honeypot unsuspecting users.
- commandlinefan 3y ago> VPNs will be highly regulated I had hope for efforts like Freenet and Tor and I2P that are both censorship _and_ regulation resistant, but I've had hope for them for 25+ years and have yet to see them gain significant mindshare.
- wkat4242 3y agoIt's because they're such a sick cesspool. It puts off normal people just looking for a bit of privacy or a breath of air from all the restrictions. Especially the onion verse is bad. It's like the nazi bar. Once there's a few the bar gets a name and atmosphere and nobody else wants to do there anymore.
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- paulddraper 3y ago> should the government tell you what websites to visit? *should the government tell websites to require age verification? Governments require that for in-person adult entertainment, should they require it for remote as well?
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- 082349872349872 3y agoAll our exes live in Texas And Texas is a place we dearly love the men But all our exes live in Texas And that's why they must browse us by VPN
- petre 3y agoThis sounds a lot like Sixto Rodriguez.
- 082349872349872 3y agoThanks! I reckoned more Kraut&Western: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmxnYkfKIIQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmxnYkfKIIQ (lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwti7-cEHh8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwti7-cEHh8 )
- AstroJetson 3y agoYay, another Sixto Rodriguez fan!
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- chatmasta 3y agoIt's not contradictory to simultaneously hold the positions that (1) porn consumption is bad for minors, and (2) adults who watch porn should not be forced to upload identity documents to insecure systems managed by unwilling operators. And that's just assuming the law could even be perfectly enforced! In reality, it will not be, and there will always be sites without the requirement (which will also be the "seedier" sites), or kids who work around it. So the end result is that kids end up watching even worse porn, while adults get their identities stolen and linked to their porn browsing habits.
- smallmancontrov 3y agoThe OPM couldn't secure our intelligence community's blackmail database. I expect these jokers to do even worse.
- Der_Einzige 3y agoI happen to love subversive behavior on the grounds that a certain amount subversiveness is good for society. It is the natural push and pull that keeps the ship of state gently trodding on the waves of history. I want more companies to engage in "taking their ball and going home". Good tactic - please do it more!
- olliej 3y agoNo, they're doing that because there's no way to actually do what is being demanded safely. Again, parents should be (1) explaining porn to their kids when they get to the age where that might matter, and (2) be involved in parenting their kids. Alternatively, how would you propose a porn site do age verification that doesn't involve every porn site having giant databases of IDs and user photos? Moreover, as the big - trying to do things right - sites have repeatedly stated, all you're doing is ensuring that the only sites minors can access are the ones that have little to no controls on content. I get that you may feel that hardcore porn is bad for children - I think the issue here is that that's the only stuff kids can access because less hardcore stuff generally has more aggressive access controls - but the solution here is to explain what pornography is, and how it does or does not match reality, etc. Pretending it doesn't exist results in kids accessing it (because hormones and failure to monitor what your kids are doing online) and not understanding that it does not accurately reflect how real relationships or sex work. It's similar to "protecting" children from sex by pretending it doesn't exist, and making it really bad/sinful, which is super effective at enabling abusers.
- Ajay-p 3y agoIs this not what Texas wanted? What I think will happen eventually is that the websites will cater to government restrictions in the name of profits. They may complain and protest but the money generated from pornographic viewing online is too great.
- MisterBastahrd 3y agoNo. They wanted a list of names of people accessing these sites. Texas is the same state that tried to coerce out of state abortion clinics into giving up their medical data. The sites instead decided to not play spy games with their clientele. I'm sure the money would be fine, but you'd also have to build and maintain systems for every state that would want to invade the privacy of its residence, which is a headache.
- 6bb32646d83d 3y agoLet's not make up things because you disagree with the politics. There's nothing in the law about the state gathering data. Texas is not the first state with such law. Louisiana, Arkansas, Indiana, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, Utah, and Virginia have all passed laws mandating age verification for accessing adult content. I expect this will become even more widespread. There's probably a market opportunity for the entrepreneurs of hacker news: creating an age verification service compliant with the law of those state, with a strong no-log privacy policy and an API that websites with age verification mandate can use
- nunez 3y agona; whales will just use VPNs and call it a day.
- ddtaylor 3y agoThankfully my VPN provides unlimited connections. Everyone I know in Texas has my account now.
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- 486sx33 3y agoI think what they wanted was proof of age. Which isn’t wholly unreasonable. The problem is doing it in a way that protects privacy. These debates happened in the 90s too. Every porn site had an age verification or warning that you had to electronically assert you were age of majority plus. I wish we could all agree that, this is important and we shouldn’t be allowing minors to watch pornography. The porn sites don’t want to be liable to verify age so they pull these stunts blocking a whole state that wants verification. There must be a reasonable and non political way to protect minors. Cigarette machines aren’t around anymore due to age verification (and people quitting smoking). Why are we so against real age verification ? I’m 110% pro anonymous internet viewing and privacy protection. But perhaps when we want to view pornography we should be okay with some form of verification. This kind of leads me to a moral Vision quest 1. It’s not the governments or anyone else’s business what I do on the internet. 2. Except my significant other, if I have to hide pornography viewing from my partner then I’m doing something wrong morally 3. More important than my ability to jack off to clown porn is the innocence of my children to not be completely corrupted by such porn at age 6 4. Privacy is important, it is not my employer or any marketing agencies business than my SO and myself wear wigs and green makeup when we fuck 5. How hard is a pro privacy age verification system? Leisure suite Larry conquers that in 1985
- whelp_24 3y agoThere's not a privacy preserving way because children are smart. I don't think we should enable more surveillance for the flimsy "think of the children " argument.
- 082349872349872 3y agoSpeaking of "think of the children", I have a conspiracy theory that the PMRC[0] was less about Dee Snider and Cyndi Lauper and more about creating a labelling regime that could ensure english-lyric Eurodisco[1] tunes wouldn't get any US distribution. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parents_Music_Resource_Center https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parents_Music_Resource_Center [1] eg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Boys_Blue https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Boys_Blue
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- nunez 3y agolubbock is at the top of this list. while this city is very conservative, it is also the home of one of the biggest colleges in Texas (Texas Tech). so them topping this list is not at all surprising. all of the other cities on this list are very (relatively) large east texas cities.