What if it was just lobbying from the VPN industry this whole time?
Probably the politicians bought VPN stock just before this was ruled. Just like so many "randomly" happened to buy video conference stock just before the COVID lockdown?
I mean if you saw what was going on in Italy and had any clue about it, you'd have been smart and purchased it. There was a lockdown in Italy for like he saw it month before there was even talk of COVID coming to the states
Lots of shady free VPNs out there from Chinese/Russian companies. Now instead of just letting people watch porn, they'll send their data to a shady/foreign entity. The apps will ask all the permissions, and people who don't know shit, will grant them.
Same thing will happen when they ban Tiktok.
Well done, You played yourself.
Definitely no shady VPNs run by white westerners though. Theyve all got impeccable morals through ans through. Glad you cleared that up.
Let me make it clear folks, nobody has better morals than white people, believe me. They're tremendous, the best. They follow the rules, they respect authority, they're just fantastic. I mean, look at me, I'm the best example of great morals, and I'm white, folks. White people, they're winners, they know how to do things right, they're tremendous patriots. So let's make America great again with the incredible morals of white people leading the way.
Reread the comment considering it's taking the view point of a Republican in Texas who voted this law, it will make more sense.
The outlook on everything on Lemmy is driving me away from the platform. I’m not saying other platforms are any better. I might just stop using it.
The same people who complain about government propaganda are the same people who type “Russia bad! China bad!” like it’s not decades of propaganda to make westerners hate these countries.
So the Ukraine invasion and the Uyghur genocide are both just propaganda?
Just use proton VPN, the free tier should be enough.
His argument is that the average person won't know any better and will just take the first sponsored result for "free VPN" of Google
I dont think so, Texas finally solved the problem with porn, now nobody can watch it and everyones life (and children) are finally safe.
/s
I'm sure the people who legislated all this into place were the first ones to access a VPN to get onto PornHub
I suspect they invested in companies that sell VPNs.
Kape technologies comes to mind, which owns Private Internet Access, CyberGhost, and ExpressVPN, and is in turn owned by an Israeli billionaire
Using a VPN that is beholden to shareholder's mood swings let alone a publicly tradable company is dangerous
At some point, Republicans will surely cross the line where their policies are so unpopular that people stop voting for them, right?
They are heavily entrenched in Texas. They will have to badly piss off most people enough that they all go vote in the same cycle.
Our state government has actually been getting much more radical over the past few years, because the only people who vote are conservative radicals, because everyone else is either apathetic or aware that their vote won't matter unless millions of people suddenly wake up tomorrow and vote.
Millions of people not voting because it would take millions of people voting to elicit positive change and nobody is doing that is one of the most frustrating things.
I refuse to be part of that group. I'm a democrat living in KS and I vote in every single election I can. My candidate may not win, but damnit they will count my vote and know that I dissent.
I look at it as earning my right to bitch about our elected officials
Not as long as the other guy is some dirty liberal who believes in socialist conspiracies like the holocaust having actually happened....
(Yes this is sarcasm, not actually saying the holocaust didn't happen)
I've never really understood why they claim it didn't happen, it's not like they were the ones doing it so I don't understand why they feel the need to protect themselves by claiming its non-existence.
Meanwhile the actual people who did do it fully acknowledge that it happened, was bad, and have taken steps to ensure it never can be allowed to happen again.
Unfortunately that isn't how identity politics works.
Not as long as there are minorities to blame for everything.
I should register bringbacktheporn.tx.
To be fair current age verification is useless. We all know clicking a button does not verify anything.
Also we know that submitting personal data to a website to verify your age is terrible. Big no no.
I'm curious of what will happen in my country. Here in Spain government said that they will implement a new age verification system using Anonymous digital certificates. The government will issue those and you have to give your ID but the certificate itself it's anonymous and the website won't be able to know who is the person behind the certificate. While there's no implementation yet, I hope they use the kind of anonymous certificates that, once expedited, the government also does not know who is using the certificate when serving as a certificate authority to validate its authenticity.
Let's see how it goes. I'm afraid even while being privacy friendly with this system Pornhub will block access here to as a threat to other places. At the end is a private company and blocking minors from accessing their content cost them big money, and, of course, money is the only thing that matters to them.
To be fair, who gives a shit about age verification?
I do not care what your child does on the Internet.
Right. Why do I have to submit a retinal scan and 3 forms of ID to watch porn because parents can't be bothered to learn basic computer skills and monitor their own children?
The right way to implement this is where they don't even have any persistent identifier that could be used for tracking. They should only ever see a derived single-use signature that after verification gives them a yes/no answer and nothing more.
There's a certain argument that it might be preferable from a privacy standpoint if people used VPNs in general, though it sure isn't ideal from a performance standpoint.
It also costs money. For many people, every monthly fee makes a difference.
oh yes, routing all traffic into limited number of bottlenecks is excellent for privacy 🤣
You've got a lot more options by way of selecting a VPN provider than an ISP. Your ISP options are those who have physical infrastructure at your location. You can get VPN service from anyone.
You have to trust your VPN provider to about the degree that you do your ISP in a VPN-less environment, true enough, but VPN providers are in a more-competitive market. It's a lot easier to switch away from a VPN provider that you don't like.
For example, I would trust an EFF-provided VPN service to a pretty considerable extent; I already trust the EFF on a lot of privacy matters.
I mean, it is?
Go on, Texas, try to ban VPNs.
the porn must flow
POON. Muad’Deepthroat. Feyd-Rawdog. The story just lends itself to porn parody.
... Then they banned VPNs. Thanks to the Republicans we have scorched sky's... We don't know who stroke first, but without Internet we are now a real communicative country with people who..... Billy! Put your rocks down man! I'm trying to tell you s story about how important Republicans are to us and yet you choose to distract the entire class with your rock tossing game!
I wonder how many people here never saw porn before they were 18.
When I was a teenager, we got our porn the old fashioned way, by shoplifting it from the magazine rack at the convenience store.
No, sir I’ve never heard of it.
They "right porn" to keep it entirely out of the public eye so they can follow their illegal and inhumane sexual shit in private. You're searching for the real perverted bastards? The one's who's shouting against sexual freedom the loudest. Search their computers.
Just gonna leave this predictable comment right here: https://lemmy.world/comment/8449238
Texas is going to get a violent crime wave from all the pathetic loser incel rightwing men who are too dumb to figure out a VPN and too hateful to get another living breathing human being interested in getting naked with them.
The news stories will break that the violence is done by brown skinned immigrants who fought through poverty, uncertainty, cartels and any number of hardships to just get their fucking foot over the door into a place they dreamt to call home come but it will come out over and over again that it was done by another nauseating, bigoted, white dude lowlife who turned straight to violence after he couldn’t break up hatespeech orgies on gab with bouts of watching stolen porn on pornhub, pounding his member while yelling sexist slurs at the very people creating content to give him the tiniest, tiniest moment of pleasure.
I think Texas is one of the dumbest places on earth. Not the people, not the human brains within the geographical borders of Texas but rather the very concept of Texas as a white identity, a white story with white facts and white narratives.
The US is already so dumb it is hard to comprehend, but like a roller coaster where you think it can bring you anyyyyyyyy higher into the realm of self delusion in the service of hate, Texas kicks in another chain lift and drags you up up up into the sky.
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