[HN Gopher] Pixiv Blocks Adult Content, but Only for US and UK U...
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Pixiv Blocks Adult Content, but Only for US and UK Users
Author : kradeelav
Score : 36 points
Date : 2024-04-24 20:21 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| commandlinefan wrote:
| I've been thinking all my adult life that, eventually, society
| has _got_ to get more reasonable about the human body but...
| there doesn't seem to be any evidence that we're getting anywhere
| close anytime soon.
| bluefirebrand wrote:
| I am friends with some artists who do some NSFW content and
| they feel they are just being strangled off of the internet at
| this point
|
| Even ones that are just looking for a place to have easy
| hosting and sharing of images are being pushed off of more and
| more sites
| SV_BubbleTime wrote:
| I'm actually quite optimistic about this!
|
| Yes! Push the porn to the "dark web". Make it a pain in the
| ass. Ask for ID. Go all out!!
|
| ...because... this is how we'll get a free internet again.
| This is how we'll get real encrypted networks. This is how we
| go back to the good internet - except - it's going to be
| harder to remove the bad stuff.
|
| But this is what they're doing. Strangling themselves with
| faux-morality and New Puritan complaintism.
|
| So I'll take the good effect of an internet that isn't
| controlled by 6 companies with the bad that some people may
| say or do things I don't like.
| resfirestar wrote:
| I could see this being really bad for the site. A lot of Japanese
| illustrators were already treating it as an afterthought compared
| to X/Twitter, and if the new terms actively make Pixiv worse for
| artists in the rest of the world then its importance could
| decline even further.
| spaceribs wrote:
| The change of making it harder or shutting off access just
| pushes people to reroute their behavior, moving large segments
| of the market into non-transparent (and non-taxable) crypto,
| further expanding the use of VPNs, and decentralizing the means
| of publishing and posting materials.
|
| The side effects of prohibitions are about as predictable as
| these moral crusades.
| schoen wrote:
| People have said for decades that governments can't control
| Internet content because people will help each other
| circumvent the restrictions by technical means. I've found
| that very inspiring and have personally tried to join in.
|
| But I notice (maybe especially on this day of the TikTok ban)
| that lots of people at least sometimes sympathize with the
| idea that the governments have good reasons to restrict
| information. And not that many people anywhere have ever used
| censorship circumvention technologies.
|
| So you might say "the more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the
| more star systems will slip through your fingers" or
| something, but the cultural will and momentum to work around
| Internet-balkanizing measures is ... not that massive and not
| that universal.
|
| I don't mean to say that people working around geographic
| blocking _doesn 't happen_ ... it does to some noticeable
| extent at least for licensed streaming, for gambling, and for
| porn. But I guess significant majorities typically say "oh
| well!" and accept restrictions as the new normal.
| riffic wrote:
| > users whose account region is set to the US or UK
|
| there seems to be a really simple workaround unless I'm missing
| something.
|
| By the way if a website asks me for my date / year of birth it's
| always 1969 because why the fuck not?
|
| specifically _1969-12-31_
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