[HN Gopher] Porn sites are banning Texas
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Porn sites are banning Texas
Author : geox
Score : 35 points
Date : 2024-03-27 19:01 UTC (4 hours ago)
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| wkat4242 wrote:
| The 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 wrote:
| Let 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!
| joecot wrote:
| Yeah, 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.
| leosanchez wrote:
| Maybe some third world countries offers itself as a Internet
| Heaven.
| jj999 wrote:
| Nobody likes international sanctions nor getting liberated.
| mywittyname wrote:
| VPNs 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 wrote:
| Yes 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)
| commandlinefan wrote:
| > 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.
| matteoraso wrote:
| >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.
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| All 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 wrote:
| This sounds a lot like Sixto Rodriguez.
| 082349872349872 wrote:
| Thanks! I reckoned more Kraut&Western:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmxnYkfKIIQ
|
| (lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwti7-cEHh8 )
| Ajay-p wrote:
| Is 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 wrote:
| No.
|
| 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.
| ddtaylor wrote:
| Thankfully my VPN provides unlimited connections. Everyone I know
| in Texas has my account now.
| hindsightbias wrote:
| How do Starlink IPs work? States indexed by GPS lookup?
|
| Maybe put pornhub on a lunar cluster. Bit of lag, but more old
| skool.
| rvnx wrote:
| https://geoip.starlinkisp.net/feed.csv
| 486sx33 wrote:
| I 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
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