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Re: Porn site traffic plummets as UK age verification rules enforced

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Post by netsharc » Thu, Aug 14, 2025, 9:12 AM UTC

wiredpancake wrote: post #19

netsharc wrote: post #14

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It's interesting that simple Javascript can be used by e.g PornHub to predict VPN usage by Brits: "What is the browser's timezone, and what is it's language?" If the connection is coming from New York, but the browser says it's UTC+1 and en_GB...

This is what the Australian Government wants to implement (unfortunately) for social media. They want the websites to take "reasonable" action to prevent access. They suggested snooping on EXIF metadata to determine the location of the image to Meta. Good chance they'll use stuff like browser fingerprinting too.

To be clear, I'm thinking PornHub can do this and show us the data, so we can laugh at the UK government about how effective their policy is.

Then again, it might mean the UK government might ban commercial VPNs next...

Re: Porn site traffic plummets as UK age verification rules enforced

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Post by cluckindan » Thu, Aug 14, 2025, 9:22 AM UTC

jongjong wrote: post #12

pk-protect-ai wrote: post #10

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Do you suggest that there are not enough sexual assaults with this statement?

No but more aggression and assertiveness is needed. I hope this won't correlate but I really think our generation will end up in a place worse than we can imagine if we don't grow a backbone. Already millennials are being coerced into various kinds of sexual slavery.

”millennials are being coerced into various kinds of sexual slavery”

I hope you have a source for that claim.

Re: Porn site traffic plummets as UK age verification rules enforced

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Post by hulitu » Thu, Aug 14, 2025, 8:01 PM UTC

cluckindan wrote: post #7

heavensteeth wrote: post #4

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I'm not a psychologist but some of these extrapolations seem insane to me. > Using Czech police records, American and Czech researchers compared rape rates in the Czech Republic for the 17 years before porn was legalized with rates during the 18 years after. Rapes decreased from 800 a year to 500. More porn, less rape. > In addition, the legalization of porn was associated with a decrease in another despicable sex cr…

It seems more likely that sexual offenses were used as an excuse to arrest and defame political opposition and activists.

> It seems more likely that sexual offenses were used as an excuse to arrest and defame political opposition and activists.

Or sexual offenses were more tolerated.

Re: Porn site traffic plummets as UK age verification rules enforced

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Post by jongjong » Fri, Aug 15, 2025, 11:19 AM UTC

cluckindan wrote: post #22

jongjong wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No but more aggression and assertiveness is needed. I hope this won't correlate but I really think our generation will end up in a place worse than we can imagine if we don't grow a backbone. Already millennials are being coerced into various kinds of sexual slavery.

”millennials are being coerced into various kinds of sexual slavery” I hope you have a source for that claim.

Yes but the coercion is so powerful psychologically that it won't even be recognized as such. The victim is violated and then conditioned to think it was all 100% their own decision. It's both mental and physical.

E.g. OnlyFans.

Accelerating inequality built into the system creates poverty, poverty leads people to sell their bodies, then they tell themselves it was all their own decision and in fact they love it... They'll tell themselves it's empowering even. Meanwhile they become extremely distrusting and develop all sorts of personality issues till they become a shell of their former selves... But it's all fine, no violation took place because they chose it 100%.

The conditioning is so strong, people might get deeply upset at this particular framing because it's too painful to accept.

And it's just the typical mental tricks the system plays on people; never blame the system, always look for individuals to scapegoat, blame yourself if you must but never blame the system.