PornHub blocks access to Utah (oh no that sux!)
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If they could pay for a VPN, they're old enough to watch it, which is what the whole law is about.
True. I'm just worried about the privacy aspect. The data will get leaked, most likely for the benefit of the regime. I get that people here don't like porn here but the justification for this law could easily be applied to "misinformation" or "hate".
Not to mention, its just the same old "the people it means to stop will easily circumvent it, leaving only the innocent suffering for it" problem with legislating most of society's ills.
Because the kids will figure out how to get around it, they always do and most people here probably have their own personal example of doing it back in the day. Meaning it just punishes adults with more work, cost, and risk while protecting nothing.
I used to completely agree with you, but kids accessing porn is becoming a huge issues with serious harm on them and society.
Let adults who want porn get a good VPN to protect their privacy, it's really fucking up kids.
That's probably the best balance that can be struck. The biggest problem with this law is the government monitoring what kind of content you're accessing.
I am fully convinced that the ubiquity of porn is directly responsible for the troon pandemic. Autism + porn addiction + grooming = troon.
You cannot be serious.
Minors don't get porn through Pornhub anyways. They get it through Twitter, Reddit, and Discord. Or, more accurately, the sites they use as a replacement for socialization simultaneously act as porn sites, often without any input on the user's part. And that's not even the only problem. Those sites also have far more non-vanilla porn, on top of doubling as advertising centers. So socialization, advertising, vanilla porn, and fetish porn are all being wrapped up into one package.
We're way beyond "is becoming", we're in the "It should have been stopped 20 years ago" stage. At the latest, when Apple and big tech ran their cleanup programs in 2009, it would have been nice if they cleaned up the internet porn, but that wasn't good for the regime's plans
Government is aware of people using VPN's to circumvent any age verification. The UK isn't outright banning them but effectively banning them in the same way they have with the right to protest as of today (coincidental timing, I'm sure). Instead of outright banning which would cause outrage and be indefensible, they make the law so vague that everything is covered while leaving a defence to say they didn't ban that thing. One of the things being amended is the requirement for payment processors to stop processing payments to any "Internet service" including VPN's and satellite Internet providers who refuse to implement censorship. Will the likes of ExpressVPN, Nord VPN, Surfshark, Starlink et al provide service for free? Of course they won't, they'll just exit the UK market. The free VPN providers will be blocked if an ISP still wants to be paid for providing their service and they will all comply.
VPN's are on borrowed time. Pornography may end up going to the dark web as a consequence of these new laws.
The law is about cutting all possible outlets for sexual urges that aren't "sell your soul to a woman".
If they really wanted to protect kids, they should be attacking women's dominance in the education system. This is just a cynical ploy to try and remove all competition from women.
It only applies to people younger than 18.
And anyone who doesn't want their ID on a government database (with their viewing history), that could fall into feminist hands at any point.
That's a problem that's inevitable when there's age restrictions.
I can't buy a gun online without proving my age and ID, which goes through a government check.
I can't even buy electronic cigarette e-liquid without proving my age.
Porn is only now falling under these restrictions and it's really telling that this is where people draw the line.
Anyway, if you're worried about government spying, you can always get your porn at your local XXX store.
You don't need porn to jerk off unless your brain is already completely fried.