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Re: Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom

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Post by gambiting »

not_a_dane wrote: post #41
rrr_oh_man wrote: post #27

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...

Friendly reminder that all ISPs in the UK are required to store your entire browsing history for a full year, and 17 government agencies, including the Department of Agriculture, can access it without a warrant. Snoopers Act has been passed and lives on for years now, and I'm yet to meet a person who is even slightly bothered by it.

Re: Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom

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Post by ndriscoll »

dijit wrote: post #111
zarathustreal wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn’t “constrain(ing) other people’s behavior” kinda the point of law? If you’re trying to make a point you’re gonna have to be more specific. Preventing rape, theft, and murder are all instances of “behavioral constraint”, without any qualifiers you’re artificially inflating the magnitude of the situation

The issue is that for a large portion of the population, porn consumption is not considered immoral or even if it is immoral ; not an offence worthy of calling someone a criminal over. We all know that laws are not a good indicator of morality, but society is better when we try to align laws over time with our moral code.

The laws aren't against porn consumption or even anonymous porn consumption. They're about distributing porn to children, which most people are in alignment that we don't want to allow.

These age verification laws all mandate that no identifying information be kept. The Texas law has a $10,000 penalty per instance for record retention. It's still perhaps not the best way to do it, but people are being very disingenuous in their characterization of these laws. It's not that much different from requiring people to show ID at the door of an adult store.

Re: Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom

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Post by chgs »

gambiting wrote: post #121
not_a_dane wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

UK is also censoring porn sites...

Friendly reminder that all ISPs in the UK are required to store your entire browsing history for a full year, and 17 government agencies, including the Department of Agriculture, can access it without a warrant. Snoopers Act has been passed and lives on for years now, and I'm yet to meet a person who is even slightly bothered by it.

Except that’s not right

https://decoded.legal/blog/2021/06/must-all-uk-internet-acce...

Re: Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom

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Post by chgs »

phillc73 wrote: post #68
miki123211 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Maybe it's also a generational thing. In the 90s, I remember running my own squid proxy on a remote shared box somewhere, in order to circumvent "things." Granted, today, if it was just getting around general network restrictions via blacklist, then tethering is very convenient.

Ssh -D is quite handy

Re: Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom

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Post by vel0city »

cayde wrote: post #57
miki123211 wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Tethering is idiot expensive in USA. Every provider will DPI and block it or throttle it. It's awful.

My $15/mo plan in the US can pull hundreds of megabits at 20ms latency to most sites tethered. Tethering is baked into most phone plans and from my experiences not throttled any more than the regular phone data. Most plans have it, even the cheap prepaid options.

Re: Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom

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Post by kornhole »

rrr_oh_man wrote: post #27

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…

Configuring 1.1.1.1 is a great option for people outside the US whose countries are unable to pressure Cloudflare for information. A better option for those of us in the US is to run our own DNS resolvers. My DNS resolver runs on a little PFSense box that also has DNS blocking and a ton of other features.

Re: Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom

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Post by jowea »

ranger_danger wrote: post #117
cayde wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tethering is idiot expensive in USA. Every provider will DPI and block it or throttle it. It's awful.

very easy to bypass simply by increasing TTL by 1

And what's the very easy way to do that?

Re: Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom

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Post by k8svet »

throwaway918274 wrote: post #94
donatj wrote: post #50

Tailscale exit node on a cheap vps and you're golden. Well as long as the stuff you're doing is "legal". It's still traceable back to you.

1984.hosting payable with Monero

Do you know any similar hosts that attempt to provide shielded VMs?
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