Hardening societal infra-structure against democratic governments collapsing back into autocracies. Good times.
Porn is not a liberating force. It's like being mad at the government for making it hard for you to smoke cigarettes.
Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom
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#12Surely it's overkill to pay for a whole month of constant vpn use. You could cook something up that provides access for a short session aaand we've circled back to dialers.
Short session? The month is good.
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#14Anyone here recommend a VPN, for personal information safety and security rather than hiding porn?
Mullvad is the best, but last I saw, they had to disable port forwarding due to bad actors ruining it for everyone else.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36113215
They also work with Tailscale which makes per-device setup easier: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/tailscale-has-partnered-with-mul.... Tailscale was using a bit too much of my iPhone battery last I tried it out, but they're at least aware of it.
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#15Anyone here recommend a VPN, for personal information safety and security rather than hiding porn?
What are you trying to protect yourself from?
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#16> experts told PopSci platforms also oppose the laws because they don’t want to be responsible for collecting and maintaining torrents of sensitive users’ data that could pose a ripe target for cybercriminals.
Good thing these laws specifically ban them from storing that information that they don't want to store.
The implication here is so strange. Kids generally don't have a way to buy VPN services (I suppose they could mail cash to mullvad), so mission accomplished?
> Some of the anti-porn laws, like the one enacted in Utah, already possess language explicitly prohibiting online platforms from letting minors “change or bypass restrictions on access.”
That's a social media law, not a porn law, and it's about parental controls that the parent set up on an account that's been marked as a child account (so only the parent account can modify controls on the child account: duh!).
Absolutely garbage article. Didn't even link to the actual laws. And people complain that no one will pay for "journalism" like this.
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#17Hardening societal infra-structure against democratic governments collapsing back into autocracies. Good times.
Porn is not a liberating force. It's like being mad at the government for making it hard for you to smoke cigarettes.
Cigarette causes lung cancer and a bunch of other things.
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#18Anyone here recommend a VPN, for personal information safety and security rather than hiding porn?
If the need is for passively visiting a few handful of websites a week, I would recommend tor browsers. Takes a bit work to learn when to refresh routes, and how to handle websites that blocks public vpns, but easy to get started with. Pretty good when visiting websites that deal with medical information since tracing data from those are exceptional valuable to data brokers.
If it is for more regular use or if the occasionally slowness/vpn blocking is too much, I would likely pick mullvad but I have not used their services. They do seem to spend some money on pro-privacy activism, so that is at least a point in their favor.
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#19> experts told PopSci platforms also oppose the laws because they don’t want to be responsible for collecting and maintaining torrents of sensitive users’ data that could pose a ripe target for cybercriminals. Good thing these laws specifically ban them from storing that information that they don't want to store. The implication here is so strange. Kids generally don't have a way to buy VPN services (I suppose they c…
Well they can learn to use tor but most likely they’ll get sucked into shady free VPN services and suffer worse.
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#20Also it is extremely common in middle and high school to use VPNs to get around school network restrictions.