cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/23788061
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/170743
We did it! We beat beating it!
This is why VPNs exist. Happy surfing, folks.
Traffic in truck stop bathrooms and motels near Sunday schools has spiked dramatically as the access to porn sites has gone down… Very weird coincidence.
Paywalled article
Paywalls can go to hell: https://archive.ph/EubRs
Paywalled articles can be easily bypassed by archiving the page. archive.is works well.
And by using uBlock Origin.
removed by mod
You shouldn’t post things like this, what if people went and looked at that link and got around the porn hub ban? We wouldn’t want that
maybe add a note that the link is nsfw
I think you just added that note. I thought it was way too obvious to be necessary.
since you said porn sites (plural), i would have assumed it was a link to an article about the topic. e.g., an article saying something like “anti porn laws infringe on people’s right to privacy and don’t actually stop people from viewing porn”.
Lol, that sounds like a hastily made up lie from someone who just got caught looking at porn.
“I thought it was an aggregate website! It’s an honest mistake!”
“I wasn’t watching porn while at work, I was looking up where to find porn to watch while at work!”
“I thought it was a porn aggregator” is an interesting defense.
So Tumbler and Instagram when they first started out?
i didn’t click the link, it was just what i assumed given that i’ve seen lots of people post news articles in the comment section and have never seen someone post a link to a porn site in the comment section.
Lol I was about to click on the link before I read this. Thanks fren. At work rn now so that would’ve been bad.
Too bad there aren’t other porn sites with massive libraries of content that apparently no one in power has noticed.
The states aren’t banning PornHub from being accessed there, PornHub are blocking themselves from being accessed from those states so as to not need to comply with new state laws requiring ID proof of age to access because they don’t want to handle personally identifying information of end users. So basically you’re just waiting for law enforcement to notice and charge them, and then find out if they’re run out of somewhere the state can reasonably do anything about it.
Bookmarked for future reference🙏
That’s because all this is just pretence government. Now they can say “see? We’re blocking that evil porn!”, that’s all
Thought you’d already skipped across the pond?
No, I can’t go without a job. I have to be making over £22,000 a year domestically to get a family visa for my wife and kid and I also don’t particularly want to have to rely on the meagre savings and what we’ll get from selling my car to survive on first. But I am very optimistic about getting one by the end of the month based on responses so far. I can hop on a plane and go tomorrow if I need to now that I have my passport. That was the big holdup before.
I hope all goes well for you. I’ve been working on German dual citizenship, myself.
Thanks and good luck. I’m guessing that’s a lot harder to get.
I’m really sorry that you have to live in Indiana.
Love, an Illinoisian.
I won’t for too much longer, thankfully. Or the U.S. at all.
Congrats, where are you headed?
Thanks. The UK. I’m lucky in that I have dual citizenship. I can’t go until I get a job, but I’m hopeful I’ll get one before the end of the month.
As a former Illinoisian, I’m sorry you live in Illinois.
Love, a Minnesotan.
Minnesota is sweet but Michiganders feel sorry for both of us
The Pirate Bay will always be with us.
17 US states are at the same level as Russia right now, when you look at pornhub blocked areas.
And yet when we pointed out that Project 2025 talked about banning porn, a lot of people didn’t think it was serious. This is just one way that such an idea can play out.
I don’t think porn could ever be fully banned - prohibition doesn’t work. (Besides, I already made a promise to create erotic art specifically in order to spite any such enacted law.) But considering how modern porn and its variety has enabled many people to acquire niche preferences, this is still going to trigger a challenging time for a lot of people.
Would you like to share any of your art?
Yis, share art.
If this plays out like it’s played out in other countries the only people who will actually be prevented from accessing pornography will be lawmakers, because they’ll be the only people not tech savvy enough to be able to circumvent the restrictions.
They’ll just offer their nephew some robux and a job in state legislature in exchange for a couple felonies
Remember when conservatives complained about the nanny state?
Republicans love big government, they just want the same or more power concentrated amongst less people. They’re all about that shit.
Always just an excuse to get rid of the things they don’t like, such as social security.
They absolutely want to regulate you on a federal level. They just want to decide which things get enforced/funded, and which should be left to the states/community/church, or what they really mean, nothing.
They want to control you on everything.
That’s not enough butter for that, that’s too much gay for this. They never wanted small government. They always wanted big government with the exact same ideals they have.
“You have too much pep in your step! 5 lashings for you!”
I’m sorry, pep is now regulated by gender and age. Oh, and if you’re young enough, please see the pastor or congressman in his office.
Can they access the hundred other porn sites?
Looks like the big-name ones are either complying with the ID law or self-blocking like Pornhub. Smaller ones are operating as normal for now.
Tfgames.site (not a commercial site, but a database of adult videogames involving physical transformations) stopped allowing access to IPs geolocated to at least some states due to similar laws, ID or no.
“Involving physical transformations”
I actually just checked after seeing this post, no ID requirement popping up in Tennessee for whatever reason. I also realized I don’t believe I had ever typed pornhub.com into a browser before until now. If somehow i had ever been there it was from search engine results I guess, never knew they had a main page.
Thanks. It’s interesting seeing them blocked like this, considering how influencial the porn industry was for decades.
(My spell check is failing me for influence al)influential
Thaaank you. I had the i and a reversed
From the article:
As of today, Florida, Tennessee, and South Carolina join the list of 17 states that can’t access some of the most popular porn sites on the internet, because of regressive laws that claim to protect children but restrict adults’ use of the internet, instead.
Yes, I saw that. It doesn’t change my question.
My interpretation is that they’re targeting the major players for lawsuits and ignoring the small fish. I could be wrong though.
But how will the south watch all that transexual porn they love so much?
Side subject, sorry for my aside: I’m starting to really get annoyed at the censorship on my instance.
How incredibly bizarre. Why is it even allowed to edit a post?
becuz, hooched awn foeneks werked faur mii.
It was probably the lemmy.ml word filter, not lemmy.world
You can export all your subscriptions pretty easily so you can sign up to a different instance and import everything over. Check Lemmy settings.
Kinda strange that world blocks that word. I’m on a queer instance and I can still see that word, in fact I don’t think I have ever encountered any removed words on my instance.
I’m on .world and I see:
granted, it was edited an hour after irreticent posted their comment, and I can’t see what it said before. (possibly the OC originally wrote “removed”?)
That would be strange if Annisem literally wrote removed and then changed it to transexual later. Only reasons I can think of is that it was a bizarre attempt at trolling or they really did mean removed and then changed it because people thought it actually got removed. It’s also possible they did originally write a different word such as the t slur which they changed to transexual after seeing that what they originally wrote got removed.
I’m not sure that .world or lemmy at large even has that ability. normally mods would just yeet the entire comment.
It could have been an attempt at humor, or something. I dunno.
What I do know is that it’s not censored now.
Lemmy does have the capability and some instances use it. I’m not exactly sure how it works.
possibly the OC originally wrote “removed”?
That is a possibility. It all seems weird to me.
Agreed that’s weird, no question there, but I don’t think that’s on lemmy or .world. I’m pretty sure they don’t have the ability to censor specific words like that- the response from mods or admin would be to just remove the comment.
Let’s just be honest, censoring single words is stupid. For one thing, I guarantee you my imagination is going to fill in a much interesting alternative.
lemmy does have a regex based slur filter that replaces matched words with removed
this one was likely caught by lemmy.ml if it was indeed the variant ending in nny, as that one is in their slur filter.
Yeah, I’ve been a annoyed by this a time or two as well
I’m honestly curious what that porn fetish was that it was so bad to be censored. Anyone off-world able to enlighten me?
That would be porn featuring people who were born as a boy or a girl by mistake, and who have since tried to put that right. Rocky Horror Picture Show has a “sweet” song with the word which is apparently problematic.
It’s the short hand version of Transexual. Tran-ny is what got censored.
Should look at others.
Unless you actually are a child who can’t handle reading magic words. Then you probably shouldn’t be online at all.Weird, I’m a .world account too and I see what the comment said just fine
Same here.
That is weird. Maybe it’s a federation issue, I’m not sure how it all works.
What client are you using? Maybe that’s the issue?
Boost for Lemmy. It’s an android app.
I’m also on boost, it shows fine for me. I don’t even see a setting to enable censoring an individual word in comments. Just posts.
Looks uncensored to me on desktop.
edit: Wait, was it edited at some point?
I’m gonna guess original comment said tranny
Well your comment hasn’t been censored either.
I’m on a different instance, maybe only censors comments made on .world? No idea otherwise lol
I live in Maryland. There is a law under review currently. It has not been passed. I joined a site, and was fine for a day. Went back on the next day and got the verification notice.
I looked up the status of the law, and freaked out thinking I was being scammed.
If only someone could invent a VPN. One of these days…
VPNs will be declared terrorists’ tools within the month.
There’s no chance of that happening.
Love the optimism. Let’s revisit after the inauguration.
The FBI has previously claimed Apple was helping terrorists by not unlocking iPhones. It’s not completely outside the realm of possibility, especially with the new psycho Trump nominated.
Why? Because working from home? They don’t want people to do that either. Or they’ll have some sort of “you need to apply for a VPN license” law which achieves the same thing.
No. It’ll be “No VPN usage for residential use. Corporate is fine.” Then they have an excuse to sick the SS on you.
Sic
Every company has a VPN. The IT personnel need a way to remotely access in case of emergency.
There are network architectures that do not uitlize a VPN. Zero trust, for example, should not use a VPN
Well, I mean if you want to go down the 1984 route (I hope not), a VPN license is a great tool for achieving such things.
I’ll give you an example, I have an amateur radio license in the UK. Part of the terms are that I must allow anyone authorised by Ofcom (the radio telecommunications agency over here) access to inspect my equipment and setup… Now ideally it would be in a building other than my house. But for most people, it would probably be in their house. So you need to let them in.
VPN License? Well probably it would have the same terms. “Excuse me sir, we have detected the use of VPN traffic at these premises. We are warranted to enter the premises for the purpose of ensuring this traffic is related to the primary business as noted on your VPN license, please step aside from your computing devices”
Alright, it won’t happen in reality. But, a lot of countries really have wanted to crack down on the use of encryption for some time now.
I live in a state where it’s not banned and it’s so annoying when iCloud Relay routes through one of the states in the South. I need to turn iCloud Relay off and proceed.
So what I’m reading is that VPN business is going to continue to thrive. But that also is an age limit hurdle, I suppose.
proton VPN has some free locations, haven’t used the free version in a while because I switched to paid mullvad but iirc they’re: Switzerland, USA, Canada, Taiwan, Germany (I think?)
The servers are free but slower and you can’t torrent on them.Eh. Until the state does lots of IP blocking of foreign websites outside of their jurisdiction, there will always be a way.
They saw what happened to NC governor candidate. They made it illegal for anyone in the future NOT to use a VPN.
OOTL, what happened?
On a black fetish site he was talking about how he was a black racist and wish they still had slavery so he could own some black women.
How would a VPN have helped a dude who used the same handle for a porn forum and other sites he personally identified himself on?
