• @[email protected]
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      629 days ago

      Political theater. “Won’t somebody think of the children?” is an easy win for politicians.

        • @[email protected]
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          239 days ago

          Yeah the point is just to soften the populace to the idea. Our fucking PM covered for pedophile priests in a Catholic school 30 years ago, he doesn’t give any fuck about kids.

        • @[email protected]
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          89 days ago

          Video over Tor is pretty awful, simply due to the way Tor works; Bandwidth is inherently limited, because it’s shared by everyone using the network. Same reason you should avoid torrenting over Tor.

          But if your video is buffering over a VPN, you need to find a new VPN provider. Mine maxes out my gigabit connection.

          • @[email protected]
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            18 days ago

            Are there going to be bandwidth problems with vpns when more countries block porn though?

            Like lots of France just joined them, and the rest of us lost a bunch of French exit nodes (at least for porn). The increase in subscribers should help expand bandwidth at big servers, but there’sa limit when we’re talking whole nations.

        • RiQuY
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          219 days ago

          If you are paying for a VPN and you have buffering problems, change to another VPN, that one is shit.

            • @[email protected]
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              19 days ago

              Sometimes routing between two IPs is fucked. Had that, and proxying to another location then to the destination again fixed it. Internet 😵

        • @[email protected]
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          19 days ago

          Why use Tor? It’s been compromised for years now. Just use I2P. You can torrent with that too.

        • AmbitiousProcess
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          19 days ago

          My VPN’s perfectly fine. To be fair, it’s not a free plan of a VPN that’s heavily throttled, but I can even play multiplayer FPS games with only a few milliseconds of additional delay, and my overall max upload and download speed is almost exactly identical to when I have my VPN off.

    • @[email protected]
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      69 days ago

      VPN companies and data brokers have a financial incentive to lobby for intrusive age-verification and restrictions, and prudish politicians are conveniently present in every political system. The porn lobby is powerful, but it seems they’ve been losing this battle recently. Or maybe they’re cutting deals with the data brokers, who knows.

    • @[email protected]
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      29 days ago

      Politically speaking, it’s easy money. You pander to the conservatives with blocking propositions, get votes.

      *Who is going to champion the flip side?!"

      • Liz
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        119 days ago

        Me. Porn is fine. Teach your children how to handle it. Teach them that it’s not realistic and some of it is straight-up dangerous. Put a filter on your internet if you’re too scared to talk to your kids about uncomfortable topics.

        • @[email protected]
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          18 days ago

          Man it’s porn, not guns. Children should not be near it!

          Oh wait this is France

          Anyway, I agree with you. We’re talking about regular ol garden variety porn. Everyone will probably see it at some point. Parents can limit what their kids see until the kids become smart enough to bypass filters. At which point they can probably handle seeing pennis n vagene.

      • @[email protected]
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        49 days ago

        Reminds me of when my buddies discovered our friend’s YouTube account… He only had one public playlist, and it was 100% full of softcore porn. Nothing else. It was all softcore porn. We gave him a pretty good ribbing for that one, and still make a point of reminding him that better porn sites exist every time it comes up.

        • Walk_blesseD
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          39 days ago

          We gave him a pretty good ribbing for that one,

          I guess you could say he got ribbed for his pleasure.

        • @[email protected]
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          19 days ago

          Always hide your playlists and subscriptions haha

          But softcore has the benefit to help you retain normal libido and to not be dependent of more hardcore stuff

      • That Weird Vegan
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        28 days ago

        Meanwhile in Australia, they just passed a bill requiring social media to verify the age of their users to make sure they’re over 16

    • @[email protected]
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      289 days ago

      It’s not about blocking porn.

      It’s always about control. Conservatives want to control how you consume sexual content.