It’s not about blocking porn.
It’s always about control. Conservatives want to control how you consume sexual content.
Object@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Blocking porn has got to be the most “why even bother” thing
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Fermion@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
It’s not about that either. It’s about connecting photo ID to browsing profiles and deanonymising the internet.
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
¿Por que los dos?
Schmoo@startrek.website 4 weeks ago
VPN companies and data brokers have a financial incentive to lobby for intrusive age-verification and restrictions, and prudish politicians are conveniently present in every political system. The porn lobby is powerful, but it seems they’ve been losing this battle recently. Or maybe they’re cutting deals with the data brokers, who knows.
shalafi@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Politically speaking, it’s easy money. You pander to the conservatives with blocking propositions, get votes.
*Who is going to champion the flip side?!"
Liz@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
Me. Porn is fine. Teach your children how to handle it. Teach them that it’s not realistic and some of it is straight-up dangerous. Put a filter on your internet if you’re too scared to talk to your kids about uncomfortable topics.
boonhet@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Man it’s porn, not guns. Children should not be near it!
Oh wait this is France
Anyway, I agree with you. We’re talking about regular ol garden variety porn. Everyone will probably see it at some point. Parents can limit what their kids see until the kids become smart enough to bypass filters. At which point they can probably handle seeing pennis n vagene.
FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 4 weeks ago
Like Reddit or YouTube with proper keywords didn’t exist
Been there, done that
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Reminds me of when my buddies discovered our friend’s YouTube account… He only had one public playlist, and it was 100% full of softcore porn. Nothing else. It was all softcore porn. We gave him a pretty good ribbing for that one, and still make a point of reminding him that better porn sites exist every time it comes up.
FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 4 weeks ago
Always hide your playlists and subscriptions haha
But softcore has the benefit to help you retain normal libido and to not be dependent of more hardcore stuff
Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
We gave him a pretty good ribbing for that one,
I guess you could say he got ribbed for his pleasure.
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Meanwhile in Australia, they just passed a bill requiring social media to verify the age of their users to make sure they’re over 16
FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 4 weeks ago
Ouch
What a great way to prevent minors from living their lives
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
I feel like reddit and YouTube are completely different leagues when it comes to porn… Porn is the only reason I haven’t deleted my last reddit account
FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 4 weeks ago
YT doesn’t even really have real porn
Indeed, but there’s still things to find if you’re a young scared kiddo, and I’d say it’s pretty soft so it’s okay
Etterra@discuss.online 4 weeks ago
Political theater. “Won’t somebody think of the children?” is an easy win for politicians.
0x0@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Plus an excuse to collect more data.
loutr@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Yeah the point is just to soften the populace to the idea. Our fucking PM covered for pedophile priests in a Catholic school 30 years ago, he doesn’t give any fuck about kids.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Except it’s fucking awful to wait for buffering over Tor or a VPN
RiQuY@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
If you are paying for a VPN and you have buffering problems, change to another VPN, that one is shit.
Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Could just be their local internet quality. Which, still, not a VPN problem.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Video over Tor is pretty awful, simply due to the way Tor works; Bandwidth is inherently limited, because it’s shared by everyone using the network. Same reason you should avoid torrenting over Tor.
But if your video is buffering over a VPN, you need to find a new VPN provider. Mine maxes out my gigabit connection.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Are there going to be bandwidth problems with vpns when more countries block porn though?
Like lots of France just joined them, and the rest of us lost a bunch of French exit nodes (at least for porn). The increase in subscribers should help expand bandwidth at big servers, but there’sa limit when we’re talking whole nations.
muusemuuse@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Why use Tor? It’s been compromised for years now. Just use I2P. You can torrent with that too.
JiminaMann@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Can you elaborate on how tor is screwed?
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It’s an easy proxy.
Lumisal@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Could be worse. Could be you’re in the early 90s with only a 56k modem.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
You’d have good games and no bullshit on your PC.
AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
My VPN's perfectly fine. To be fair, it's not a free plan of a VPN that's heavily throttled, but I can even play multiplayer FPS games with only a few milliseconds of additional delay, and my overall max upload and download speed is almost exactly identical to when I have my VPN off.