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

• 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ 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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      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Setting aside the fact that there’s no appetite for these laws in liberal states, its purely a conservative fetish, you can still get porn on the internet without going to the big corporate online clearinghouses.

        FFS, there was porn on Napster back in the day.

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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 ⁨12⁩ ⁨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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      • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        StarLink connections still exit on the ground, sometimes in a different state. You could gain access or get denied pron based on where your ground IP ends up.

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      • pdxfed@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yeah then Elon can blackmail them instead of someone else

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