Personally I think any kind of internet censorship it’s dumb, but anyway they will do it if it means more votes for any “side” of the political class.
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themelm@sh.itjust.works 8 months agoVPN can’t really be made illegal its required for business to function.
And you’d get the ISPs to ban pornhubs IPs not the other way around.
Pornhub is banning these states as protest to get attention.
Its dumb as shit of course since pornhub for all its faults is like the least shady porn site so it’ll just push people who aren’t tech savvy to shadier sites with more non consensual and stolen content and shitty popups
BlackSkinnedJew@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
They don’t need to make VPNs illegal. They will just force liability onto these VPNs if they don’t abide by the state laws.
themelm@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Say I rent a server in Canada and let all my friends connect to it. Then they use that server to watch porn. How would the Montana Jack-Off Police ever know that people from Montana are watching porn? All they would see is that a bunch of people from Montana are remotely connected to Canada. Maybe that’s where my office is or were all just doing a remote LAN party.
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
They will see you connecting to the VPN and use it as an excuse to seize your computer if they want to. It likely won’t be a thing they do to everyone. Just like in China, that will enforce the laws primarily against people who don’t toe the party line.
howrar@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
If connecting to a computer in Canada is sufficient excuse seize someone’s computers, then banning VPNs won’t make a difference. There’s no way for them to know that it’s a VPN. It’ll just look like any other internet traffic.