Comment on Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads

• extant@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You make it sound like our lawmakers are wise and would make an informed decision and not just write an exception for companies that lobby for exemption.

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  • atrielienz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Easier to make money off them if you don’t lobby for an exemption.

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  • IDriveWhileTired@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You make it sound like our lawmakers are wise and would make an informed decision and not just write an exception for companies that -lobby- pay their greedy asses for said exemption.

    There, FTFY.

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• kent_eh@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Virtually every tech company in the world uses them

  Virtually every company (tech or not) and every government uses a VPN…

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• DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Russia, China and every other authoritarian shithole has made them illegal

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  • cation@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can’t say anything about China, but why do you think vpn’s are illegal in Russia? Sure, the big vpn companies inside the country might be influenced by the government to limit your access to some banned websites. However, you can freely use a vpn if you wish.

    Again, I remind you that you could always set up your own vpn server for personal use.

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    • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Only “government approved” VPNs are “legal” in Russia. Guaranteed that none of them bypass country censorship.

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• oatscoop@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I took their comment to mean “companies offering VPN services as a subscription for the purpose of privacy”.

  It wouldn’t be hard to target those companies specifically while leaving every other “legitimate” (in their view) use cases for VPNs alone.

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  • pete_the_cat@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A lot of people aren’t aware that VPNs are used to connect to internal networks, just “it’s this thing that I see commercials about that says it protects my privacy and allows me to access content not available in my country”.

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