Comment on No more Pornhub? That will depend on what happens with a Senate bill

Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just like the pop up notice when you visit pornhub for the first time and asks you to click whether you are 18 or not.

  Which makes me wonder what happens when you click that you’re not.

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  • DarkMessiah@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I clicked it out of curiosity, once. It just took me to Google.

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    • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’d like to try that too, but unfortunately I’m over 18.

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      • Hadriscus@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You could get a child to click that button for you

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• tsonfeir@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  VPN bans are next.

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  • iopq@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How do you ban a VPN? If I connect to a server that’s a big cloud provider, how do you know the connection is to a VPN or a website?

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    • anyhow2503@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s not feasible to prevent it completely, but you can certainly make it harder for the average person and discourage usage by simply outlawing it. That’s what China is doing at least.

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• Weslee@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I gotta wonder if these people know that these kinds of laws will do nothing, and they are just pandering, or if they actually think this time they got it

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  • Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think they all just fundamentally don’t understand how the Internet works and how it doesn’t care about borders.

    They approach it like companies are providing services to users directly like you just walked into a store and they’re in full control of everything. Like companies are explicitly entering all the markets worldwide by being available on the Internet and providing their services to users. Obviously if you provide services to Canadian users you must be a company with a presence on Canadian soils.

    Except you can’t exactly put customs on the Internet like you can block sketchy imports from China when they arrive at the border. It literally crosses the border at the speed of light.

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    • aelwero@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m reasonably certain that once enough governments jump on the “we need to control the internets” bandwagon, there will be a region specific convention adopted similar to country codes for phone numbers so that they can, in fact, apply customs to it…

      I suspect it won’t be in the name of righteousness though, more likely it’ll be taxes, copyright, etc, on internet sales that trigger it.

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    • Weslee@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But somewhere down the line someone knows, either the lawmakers, or the advisors, or maybe they all know and it’s just grandstanding to those of the public that don’t know.

      Really all this does is train the people with the drive or ability to learn things like DevOps to be even better at circumventing it, well this is not that hard, but generally, laws like this.

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