Imagine Texas bans private VPNs next. Haha.
That's not even haha, that's like 6/10 likely.
Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom
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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 and aware of as I've gotten older. And further, it is only through this sensitivity and awareness, and acceptance of the fact that I cannot just decide by fiat how things will affect me, that I have gained some measure of control.
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
That way the ISP still sees what you're doing though.
Only the DNS lookups. Not the content of what you’re viewing over https. Everything after domain name is encrypted
The DNS lookup are often enough. You can try to claim you were shopping for new shoes on pornhub.com, but not many people will buy it
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#74The 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)…
Yes
That is the problem with vice laws
Tough times
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#75Anecdote: 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…
Reminds me of a... peculiarity in Turkey. Men are required to serve a mandatory term in the military, but are exempt if they're homosexual. However, to prevent this being used as a loophole to evade service, the men in question must prove that they're gay. This has resulted in the Turkish military having a very large collection of amateur gay porn.
So they’re forced to choose between military service or having sex on camera? I’m not sure I’d call that “amateur porn” if it’s not consensual
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#76Gambling should be banned. Not porn.
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#77Surely 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.
4 or 8tb storage isn’t even that much these days. You could torrent thousands of gb of porn and just store it until later. Heck if you lived somewhere that was getting really stupid and cracking down you could even sell cheap dvds with porn in a weird black market. The world gets dumber by the day
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#78Anyone have experience with Aura's VPN feature?
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What you wrote sounds a bit like "As a minor I have lived in asbestos building and I can assure you I was not harmed". How do you know? As far as I know, there are many scientific studies that disprove what you've said - and that porn has, in fact, a harmful effect on young minds. Of course there are many other harmful things that we nevertheless accept, like alcohol, cars or cigarettes. So maybe we can, as a society…
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#80If 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.