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Proxies and VPNs are different, that's why?
Yes, they are, and what gets sold to consumers as VPNs these days are just proxies.
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Wanting to get out of a pre-existing obligation that every man has, and most don't get out of, should not qualify as lack of consent.
The obligation itself already lacks consent so anything you feel forced to do to get out of it is similarly non-consentual.
But I think most people would rate non-consensual sex as significantly worse than a non-consensual day job.
So if you say the sex on camera is not consensual, you're implying a very different kind of consent violation than is actually happening.
Imagine Texas bans private VPNs next. Haha.
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Respectfully: 1. I think censorship laws are abhorrent 2. It can be very difficult to tell what effect media has on you, and just because you do not (say) find yourself traumatised or find that your perceptions have been overtly altered does not mean you have not been negatively affected. And you will certainly never be unaffected by anything you experience or do. This is something that I've become more sensitive to…
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If vpns become positioned primarily about accessing porn, well I look forward to the day people acknowledge tls exists and we stop seeing misleading advertisements with the various claims everyone on a network can see the contents of your online banking.
The major problem here is that our government is turning us all into criminals. Using a VPN doesn't make it legal for you to consume anonymously, even if doing so makes it harder to enforce, at least for now. Soon VPN use will be illegal in some states. Once again, hard to enforce. But these are things which, if for some reason the gov't decides to target you (in which case they can/will spend the effort to discover)…