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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.
When you add the word "just", you make that statement false.
Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom
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#92VPNs: $12/month if you sign up for 200+ months for blocked IPs and slow servers and service. awesome.
Reality: €5/month if you sign up for 1 month, blocked IPs, ~10% reduction in Mbps
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#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
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.
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#94Tailscale 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.
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#95Anecdote: 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...
At this point Turkey is probably more free than the UK.
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#96Gambling should be banned. Not porn.
Why?
No one forces anyone to gamble.
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#97Imagine Texas bans private VPNs next. Haha.
That's not even haha, that's like 6/10 likely.
I doubt Texas will. How would they enforce it? And good chance the federal courts will rule it is pre-empted by federal law (the FCC).
For historical (and arguably even political) reasons, federal courts give the states a bit more leeway when to adult content. But regulating general purpose content-neutral VPNs would really be stepping directly into the FCC’s domain, in a way which would directly impact interstate commerce, and I doubt the courts would let them do that
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#98VPNs: $12/month if you sign up for 200+ months for blocked IPs and slow servers and service. awesome.
For $12 a year you can get a VPS and just put OpenVPN there.
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#99Hardening societal infra-structure against democratic governments collapsing back into autocracies. Good times.
But the kids!
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
How well do subpoenas work across international borders, especially when the charge isn't illegal in the recieving jurisdiction? (asking for a friend, obvs)
Things like torrenting will get you quickly shut down by the provider. My friend found this out while considering setting up their own seedbox.
Sounds like your friend was VPNing to the wrong jurisdiction.
PulsedMedia (Finland), IHostArt (Romania) and many other seedbox server providers exist and will not shut you down.