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Re: Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom

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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…

UK is also censoring porn sites...

Re: Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom

#42

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…

That way the ISP still sees what you're doing though.

Re: Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom

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post #17
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Especially also for bystanders. Porn is consumed mostly privately.

Re: Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom

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post #9

Anyone here recommend a VPN, for personal information safety and security rather than hiding porn?

How are these two use cases different? Are there vpn services that let you do one and not the other?

Presumably GP's fear is that there are a lot of VPN providers, and they all claim to offer security, etc (or if you google for a "$VPN_provider_name review" there'll be dozen of shill sites saying how secure this particular VPN provider is, click here to get a discount using our referral code), so it all feels like shady business.

For bypassing Sharia-state firewalls like Texas', any VPN provider should be good enough, but GP is asking for recommendations for providers who can be trusted to ensure privacy.

Re: Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom

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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…

That way the ISP still sees what you're doing though.

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Re: Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Liberating force is a bit too far but it’s not the demon people seem to think. It’s about all things in moderation. Porn = dopamine. Fast food = sugars/fructose and the ilk. SM = dopamine. Loot boxes = dopamine. Ad nauseam…

Can I get a socially approved amount of porn then? Would there be porn rations?

Just like other addictive things (sugar, caffeine, video games, gambling), the "socially approved amount" is determined by a given individual's own limits on what they can consume while remaining a functioning member of society.

Re: Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom

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post #20

Also it is extremely common in middle and high school to use VPNs to get around school network restrictions.

That must be a US thing, over here in Europe, most people just use hotspots (or cellular data) instead.

That was a thing even back in my day, when LTE availability was not a given and cellular packages were much less generous.

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