Or as they call it in France, Le Porn
VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website.
Submitted 10 months ago by Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
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trk@aussie.zone 10 months ago
bytesonbike@discuss.online 10 months ago
And you know what they call a quarter pounder with Cheese in Paris?
LiterallyLMAO@lemmy.world 10 months ago
A 113.3981 gramer with cheese?
devolution@lemmy.world 10 months ago
KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 10 months ago
She looks like the tired waitress from IHOP where dreams go to die
FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 10 months ago
Cringe, pls delete
venusaur@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If you at all think that people can be addicted to social media, you could draw a correlation from this to porn addiction.
I know a lot of you either don’t think porn can be addictive and/or don’t think it can have negative effects on society.
Ask yourselves why the logic works for social media but not porn.
HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ehh… Application of a addiction model is somewhat controversial for pornography (the ground seems divided on whether it’s a compulsion or an addiction). Social media, however, is no less controversial (it’s just the media likes to hype this more).
I will say - the point of a porn site is to sell user data and deliver ads, whereas the point of social media is to keep the user scrolling by any means possible. By its design, the latter cultivates addiction as a clear goal (the goal to scroll is artificially imposed), whereas the case for the former is less clear (the goal to masturbate isn’t something porn created). In essence, one creates a drive and then sates it, whereas another sates an existing drive.
Honestly, I think, at the moment, we’re on the “violent video games cause violence” stage of the research. In other words, not enough data to decide so the media has decided for us.
skeesx@lemm.ee 10 months ago
You absolutly right, but here in the Mecca of internet freedom, we don’t likey.
venusaur@lemmy.world 10 months ago
But we love our mods. What about freedom of speech online? People just too addicted to porn and can’t even muster an ounce of criticism or critical thinking.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Ask yourselves why the logic works for social media but not porn.
Because they’re two completely different things.
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 10 months ago
To be fair, potentially addictive or not, I wouldn’t support a ban on social media either. The practical requirements needed to effectively restrict access to information in the modern age (both porn and social media being examples of information) are such that I generally view the cure as worse than the disease, so to speak, and view the least bad option as being to just give up on legal restrictions and just deal with the consequences instead. Addiction is harmful, but most consumers of such information aren’t harmed by it, and restriction inherently requires monitoring and removing internet anonymity to a degree that I find unacceptable.
venusaur@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Didn’t say anything about banning porn or social media. Just saying that they’re both addictive and have negative consequences on society. Yall can keep your porn. Relax.
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 10 months ago
maybe we should ban all the vices you don’t partake of but leave the rest intact
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
If everything you can get addicted to were made illegal, there’d be nothing legal left.
FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 10 months ago
So alcohol and tobacco should be entirely banned as well? We should start with these, they’re way worse
daggermoon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
venusaur@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Exactly. The world is addicted to porn.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 10 months ago
BTW, who even had the brilliant idea to block pr0n for French of all people?
Dampyr@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You can say porn here on lemmy
FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 10 months ago
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You’re right
Luffy879@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
But think of the children!!!
Because for the right, apparently porn is bad for children, but people grooming the same children is fine.
But in all seriousness, being goomed by 2 people when I was not even 14 has done more damage to me than playing black ops 2 with all the graphic scenes on my Wii-U when I was 12
Etterra@discuss.online 10 months ago
Anyone with more than two brain cells to click together could have told them this would happen. Some of them did. Not that they would/did listen.
IceFoxX@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ah yes, chat control, the crackdown on encryption, backdoors, etc., all forgotten? So now thousands of French people are deliberately using VPNs for something that is now illegal. Well, the politicians won’t take advantage of this to take action against VPNs and encryption… To protect the children, of course…
WarlordSdocy@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
I mean for context with the TikTok comparison using a VPN didn’t get you around the TikTok ban unless you also made an entirely new account.
SaltSong@startrek.website 10 months ago
That’s because they banned the accounts.
Anyone who has an account on pornhub deserves their ban.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
What’s wrong with having an account?
FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 10 months ago
Why? Making playlists and commenting gameplay is great
MelodiousFunk@startrek.website 10 months ago
So, all the uploaders deserve a ban?
passepartout@feddit.org 10 months ago
I’m shocked that this many people feel the need to disobey a rule that is only there to help the children. Next step must be to ban VPNs altogether, and enforcing all Internet users to be identified with their real identity (/s obviously).
unautrenom@jlai.lu 10 months ago
Fun fact: they already tried. In the same law where they tried to ban E2EE a few months ago. It went about as well as you’d expect.
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 10 months ago
Does the rule in question even apply to end users? All I had heard of it was that it put some kind of requirement on the website itself to identify people, which a person seeking out a noncompliant or foreign website presumably wouldn’t be the one violating?
FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 10 months ago
Don’t give them ideas. If they block no-log VPNs I’m going to become a real threat 👀
affiliate@lemmy.world 10 months ago
if the VPN ban doesn’t work then the only reasonable course of action would be to ban the internet entirely. it’s the only way the children can be truly safe.
meliaesc@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Honestly and truly, I don’t think humanity is ready for the internet.
synapse1278@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Back to the Minitel !
IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
The VPNs will be harder to ban. Not just from a technical standpoint, but politically as well. Big businesses will be absolutely opposed to VPN bans.
ifItWasUpToMe@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I feel they could easily ban VPN companies (maybe?), which is what 99.9% of people that want to browse from a different location use.
This won’t affect companies at all as they would be using their own VPN.
passepartout@feddit.org 10 months ago
There will be a lot of businesses who feel the (justified) need to hide the entrypoint to their infrastructure behind a VPN.
scott@lemmy.org 10 months ago
Jokes on them I just have an incredibly high volume of DNS traffic
passepartout@feddit.org 10 months ago
Wait, this can’t just be another useless DNS blocking, or is it?
masterofn001@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Lembot_0003@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Teacher, leave the kids alone!
Raverbunny@aussie.zone 10 months ago
All and all its just a-nother dick in the porn.
skinnydugan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Dr. Cox was right: “I’m fairly sure if they took porn off the internet, there’d only be one website left, and it’d be called ‘Bring Back the Porn.'”
FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 10 months ago
Bro’s name is Dr. Cocks
0x0@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Object@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Blocking porn has got to be the most “why even bother” thing
Finch9678@europe.pub 10 months ago
Out of the loop here, why did Pornhub leave France?
devolution@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Why do the French even need Pornhub when their basic movies are very porn adjacent?
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I have to admit, of all the nations on earth, I never expected this sort of puritanical theatrical authoritarianism out of the french.
MisterFrog@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The percentages of respondents in surveys on infidelity from France are a bit of a cultural difference (from Australian perspective, anyway)
Vermingot@jlai.lu 10 months ago
To clarify, the french didn’t ban pornhub, it’s the company behind pornhub who decided to deny it’s access in France to protest a law proposal that is currently getting examined in parliament
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Isn’t that already the case on a lot of the internet?
echodot@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Wait aren’t they proposing the same thing in the US as well? It’s a fairly standard thing of right-wing governments to just demand the impossible with no understanding about it could possibly be achieved.
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
This is how young boys learn to computer. It won’t do shit to stop anything. It’s a waste of time.
NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Democracy and general Egalitarianism is so 2008.
FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 10 months ago
Bold of you to assume it ever was!
Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I can’t wait for a severe overcorrection
HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 10 months ago
I know right? Aren’t there nude beaches in the south of France where people will fuck in broad daylight with others watching?
French citizens please confirm (for ugh science, and not vacation planning)!
BlueMagma@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Yes, there are. But you misunderstood the news: France didn’t block pornhub, pornhub blocked France as a protest against a new law.
NotKyloRen@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
They should actually take to the streets (again). Not joking. What is this nanny-state BS?
FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 10 months ago
They’ve been trying to block it for many years now.
France has been going downhill for quite some time. Many proposals for chat control and tracking… even recently, we got a law proposal that aimed at banning E2EE 😵
chunes@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Politicians are always trying to ban encryption in every country. I remember it happening constantly in the 90s. And it happens because politicians don’t understand that you can’t ban math
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Damn, the whole world really is going authoritarian.