Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn

Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I mean, a VPN is way cheaper than whatever hoops Idaho wants you to jump through to watch some 10/10 goth hottie get her ass eaten.

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  • Strider@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    As a watcher from the outside:

    It might not be fun to hear but vpn is neither the solution to government oppression nor a solution against tracking (recently there was a good article regarding that) so all you do is pay more.

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  • snekerpimp@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yea, but soon we’ll have no states to vpn to, and we will have to start using the Quebec servers, then all the websites will be in French and I’ll have to learn a new language.

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    • kambusha@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Omelette du fromage. Omelette du fromage!

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      • Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    • zerofk@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is the plan all along. It’s not about porn, it’s not even about control. It’s about teaching Americans a second language. You know who’s behind this? Duolingo and Big Language.

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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I VPN to Montreal servers. Everything is still displayed in English.

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      • pdxfed@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Your response is also supposed to be legally in French.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      soon we’ll have no states to vpn to

      I’ve yet to see any state legislature take that proposal seriously. Unlike trying to make porn sites take your credit card info in advance (a policy they hated so much gosh darn it!) you’re really fucking with the money when you try and regulate VPNs. Also, just… not really that practical. For the same reason Congress has been pretty toothless when it comes to regulating Torrents and digital encryption, going after VPNs at the regulatory level is something of a technological rabbit hole.

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      • baronvonj@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I’ve yet to see any state legislature take that proposal seriously

        snekerpimp meant if every state requires ID, then VPN to another state will not get around the ID check.

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    • nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      … and then all that will be left will be .onion sites

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    • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Is there a French version of /c/ich_iel?

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      • grue@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I can only assume it would be something like !moi_evv if it existed.

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    • phed@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Kwee-bec? Québec? Q-bec? Quebec?

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  • root@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    States are also considering banning VPNs now as well. This will never work and is a horrible idea, but it’s being considered.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      States are also considering banning VPNs now as well.

      Well, some legislators have proposed taking wack-a-mole to the next level and demanding all VPNs be certified and regulated. But good luck getting that passed through the Silicon Valley Presidency or the Ancap Courts.

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      • explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I would count on them being hypocritical. The rich will just use Starlink.

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• NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ironically? If we were a less prudish society this genuinely wouldn’t matter.

  “Oh no! Sarah likes threesome porn. Uhm… okay?”

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  • ccunning@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t think that’s the main reason folks are concerned about having their government IDs stolen.

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    • bassomitron@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah, people already browse porn with zero privacy precautions, so linking their fetishes to them would be trivial. The main concern is having yet another privacy vulnerability vector for identity theft.

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      • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        And there are so many of those these days that a new one genuinely doesn’t matter.

        If you haven’t been offered a free year of identity theft insurance recently? Some company/org is plugging their ears.

        SSNs are a fundamentally broken system (look it up). Photo IDs? I will guarantee you that if you go to ANY city there is someone at the DMV who will look up whatever you want for fifty bucks. The ONLY reason credit card fraud is less massive than it is (and it is MASSIVE) is because the CC companies put in the effort to monitor that and lock it down.

        EVERYONE should have their credit records locked unless they are actively applying for something.

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• khepri@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  yeah I barely can bring myself to give like Fidelity or Charles Schwab photos of my ID, just even having a digital image of my ID on my computer feels wrong lol

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  • bitchkat@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I just went through fun trying to explain to a company that my company is a contractor for why I wouldn’t be scanning my passport and emailing it to them.

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