Submitted 8 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/senate-pornography-legislation-1.7119358
No more Pornhub? That will depend on what happens with a Senate bill::A Senate bill might cause the owners of Pornhub to block access to the site in Canada, its owners say.
In a world where there’s VPN ads literally everywhere and even bitcoin ATMs, I’m sure that will be of tremendous effectiveness
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.
I clicked it out of curiosity, once. It just took me to Google.
VPN bans are next.
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?
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
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.
As some wise man once said:
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!”
Hmm mullvad just got a spike in users, very interesting
This is the best summary I could come up with:
A House of Commons committee is set to study legislation proposed by Independent Sen. Julie Miville-Dechêne that would require Canadians to verify their age to access porn online.
The bill outlines a range of concerns about minors having access to sexually explicit material, including the potential to develop a pornography addiction and the reinforcement of harmful gender stereotypes.
Such suggestions have prompted widespread concern from privacy experts about the overarching impacts, from the risks associated with asking Canadians to share personal information with an external provider to the use of measures such as facial recognition technology.
In 2023, his firm acquired ownership of Pornhub’s parent company as it was reeling from reports that exploded in late 2020 about the site being home to countless examples of child sexual abuse material and other images and videos uploaded without an individual’s consent.
Tories have routinely raised concerns about children’s access to sexually explicit material, while also decrying government efforts to regulate social media companies as censorship.
Ontario MP Karen Vecchio, who sponsored the bill in the House, told MPs back in December that she agreed personal information shouldn’t be collected by individual sites.
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Torrenting porn is still alive and well, so who cares?
aelwero@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Oh yeah… I’m sure that won’t cause any unintended issues at all…
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 8 months ago
The future is back to playboy magazines