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VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website.

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Pro@programming.dev⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

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  • venusaur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      If everything you can get addicted to were made illegal, there’d be nothing legal left.

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    • FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      So alcohol and tobacco should be entirely banned as well? We should start with these, they’re way worse

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    • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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      • venusaur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • FourWaveforms@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      maybe we should ban all the vices you don’t partake of but leave the rest intact

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    • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6eFNRKEROw&t=21

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      • venusaur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Exactly. The world is addicted to porn.

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    • HexesofVexes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ask yourselves why the logic works for social media but not porn.

      Because they’re two completely different things.

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    • skeesx@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You absolutly right, but here in the Mecca of internet freedom, we don’t likey.

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      • venusaur@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • network_switch@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m pretty satisfied as a subscriber. Slowly using proton mail for more and more important accounts. Constant usage of the VPN. Trying to use the calendar more but still haven’t broken my Google Calendar habits. Proton Drive I use over google; I just need a Linux desktop application. Proton pass, still haven’t given that a go. Comfortable with KeepassXC and managing the backups myself. Proton Docs, it’s OK. Solid start. Hoping that notes partnership/acquisition eventually replaces Google Keep for me as a cloud notes application. I have pretty strong confidence now in the company regardless of the slow Linux developments

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    • Vinstaal0@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Not sure where I got it form, but I have a Proton VPN client on Linux. It is pretty barebone, but it works.

      Personally I just pay the 12,10$ for Bitwarden and use SimpleLogin aliasses together with that.

      I just miss Microsoft Office on Linux, but that has nothing to do with Proton.

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  • Spaniard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And now they want to keep doing the job of the parents and forbid “social network” to kids 15 and under.

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Well they are the French

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  • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    hows proton?

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  • BilboBargains@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You horny bastards

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  • Manmoth@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This is depressing.

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    • Allemaniac@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      it’s not like sexual desire is human nature

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      • Manmoth@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Sexual desire is one thing. Pornography is another. Porn is evil.

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  • propitiouspanda@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    riseup.net/en/vpn

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    • FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Unlike most other VPN providers, Riseup does not log your IP address.

      Doesn’t that start with a blatent lie? Which serious VPN does that nowadays?

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  • bruhduh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    How about mullvad

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    • Rin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Why not zoidberg?

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  • MTK@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I wonder if this is because it’s porn or because it’s french people who like to stick it to the government

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  • FourWaveforms@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    le hon hon hon!!! je veux a l’vpn en plús!!!

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