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Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom

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Re: Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom

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Post by p00b »

brink wrote: post #11
PicassoCTs wrote: post #3

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.

Right, but also porn is often a commercial engine for tech innovation (even if indirectly, as in this case), which in turn can be leveraged as a liberating force.

Re: Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom

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Post by tennisflyi »

goalieca wrote: post #19
ndriscoll wrote: post #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 c…

Well they can learn to use tor but most likely they’ll get sucked into shady free VPN services and suffer worse.

No way you’re streaming anything via Tor

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Post by tavavex »

brink wrote: post #11
PicassoCTs wrote: post #3

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 also doesn't give you cancer. It's pretty transparent that the restrictions on it originate from hyper-religiosity and conservatism, rather than some genuine concern about public health.

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Post by rrr_oh_man »

Anecdote: I stayed in the Airbnb of an (obviously gay) couple in the South-Eastern very conservative Turkish city of Mersin many years ago.

The absolute joy they had when I showed them how to set up 1.1.1.1 on their Android TV, phones, and laptops… so they could watch unrestricted gay porn in their heavily censored and state-controlled slice of the World Wide Web…

I still get a virtual greeting card from them once in a while.

Re: Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom

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Post by zamadatix »

jimcsharp wrote: post #8

Surely 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.

It's <$5 per month. The economics start to be more about the general cost of managing transactions, accounts, and customer service than about paying for how much VPN you actually use.
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