VPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website.
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Age verification requirements.
schrieb am 10. Juni 2025, 17:35 zuletzt editiert vonwow, didn't expect that from france. I thought they, of all countries, would be less prudish than Texas about porn.
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schrieb am 10. Juni 2025, 17:38 zuletzt editiert von
Dr. Cox was right: “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.'”
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schrieb am 10. Juni 2025, 17:39 zuletzt editiert von
I'm shocked that this many people feel the need to disobey a rule that is only there to help the children. Next step must be to ban VPNs altogether, and enforcing all Internet users to be identified with their real identity (/s obviously).
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Out of the loop here, why did Pornhub leave France?
schrieb am 10. Juni 2025, 17:41 zuletzt editiert von stillwater@sh.itjust.works 6. Okt. 2025, 19:41France passed a law requiring porn sites to verify age of all site visitors. Pornhub is blocking France instead of forcing its visitors to provide ID.
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schrieb am 10. Juni 2025, 17:47 zuletzt editiert von
I mean for context with the TikTok comparison using a VPN didn't get you around the TikTok ban unless you also made an entirely new account.
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I'm shocked that this many people feel the need to disobey a rule that is only there to help the children. Next step must be to ban VPNs altogether, and enforcing all Internet users to be identified with their real identity (/s obviously).
schrieb am 10. Juni 2025, 17:55 zuletzt editiert vonTeacher, leave the kids alone!
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schrieb am 10. Juni 2025, 18:04 zuletzt editiert von
Anyone with more than two brain cells to click together could have told them this would happen. Some of them did. Not that they would/did listen.
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Blocking porn has got to be the most "why even bother" thing
schrieb am 10. Juni 2025, 18:06 zuletzt editiert vonPolitical theater. "Won't somebody think of the children?" is an easy win for politicians.
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Dr. Cox was right: “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.'”
schrieb am 10. Juni 2025, 18:06 zuletzt editiert vonDid you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Tumblr the Depraved?
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wow, didn't expect that from france. I thought they, of all countries, would be less prudish than Texas about porn.
schrieb am 10. Juni 2025, 18:10 zuletzt editiert vonTexas isn't the first. I think it was started by Germany? I know the UK banned women's orgasms and Australia banned hentai. Heck, India apparently banned porn altogether, ineffectively.
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I'm shocked that this many people feel the need to disobey a rule that is only there to help the children. Next step must be to ban VPNs altogether, and enforcing all Internet users to be identified with their real identity (/s obviously).
schrieb am 10. Juni 2025, 18:12 zuletzt editiert vonJokes on them I just have an incredibly high volume of DNS traffic
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I mean for context with the TikTok comparison using a VPN didn't get you around the TikTok ban unless you also made an entirely new account.
schrieb am 10. Juni 2025, 18:16 zuletzt editiert vonThat's because they banned the accounts.
Anyone who has an account on pornhub deserves their ban.
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Texas isn't the first. I think it was started by Germany? I know the UK banned women's orgasms and Australia banned hentai. Heck, India apparently banned porn altogether, ineffectively.
schrieb am 10. Juni 2025, 18:19 zuletzt editiert von korne127@lemmy.world 6. Okt. 2025, 20:20Germany didn’t do anything like that. Britain tried to ban porn like this but realized it’s a terrible idea and stepped back from it.
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schrieb am 10. Juni 2025, 18:21 zuletzt editiert von
BTW, who even had the brilliant idea to block pr0n for French of all people?
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Political theater. "Won't somebody think of the children?" is an easy win for politicians.
schrieb am 10. Juni 2025, 18:22 zuletzt editiert vonExcept it's fucking awful to wait for buffering over Tor or a VPN
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Dr. Cox was right: “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.'”
schrieb am 10. Juni 2025, 18:24 zuletzt editiert vonDoes oglaf count as porn?
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Germany didn’t do anything like that. Britain tried to ban porn like this but realized it’s a terrible idea and stepped back from it.
schrieb am 10. Juni 2025, 18:24 zuletzt editiert vonIronically, it was PornHub’s parent company that was set to run the UK age verification scheme.
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Political theater. "Won't somebody think of the children?" is an easy win for politicians.
schrieb am 10. Juni 2025, 18:25 zuletzt editiert vonPlus an excuse to collect more data.
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Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Tumblr the Depraved?
schrieb am 10. Juni 2025, 18:26 zuletzt editiert vonI hate how hard this made me laugh
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That's because they banned the accounts.
Anyone who has an account on pornhub deserves their ban.
schrieb am 10. Juni 2025, 18:29 zuletzt editiert vonSo, all the uploaders deserve a ban?
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