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What if it was just lobbying from the VPN industry this whole time?

Lots of shady free VPNs out there from Chinese/Russian companies. Now instead of just letting people watch porn, they'll send their data to a shady/foreign entity. The apps will ask all the permissions, and people who don't know shit, will grant them.

Same thing will happen when they ban Tiktok.

Well done, You played yourself.

I'm sure the people who legislated all this into place were the first ones to access a VPN to get onto PornHub

At some point, Republicans will surely cross the line where their policies are so unpopular that people stop voting for them, right?

I should register bringbacktheporn.tx.

To be fair current age verification is useless. We all know clicking a button does not verify anything.

Also we know that submitting personal data to a website to verify your age is terrible. Big no no.

I'm curious of what will happen in my country. Here in Spain government said that they will implement a new age verification system using Anonymous digital certificates. The government will issue those and you have to give your ID but the certificate itself it's anonymous and the website won't be able to know who is the person behind the certificate. While there's no implementation yet, I hope they use the kind of anonymous certificates that, once expedited, the government also does not know who is using the certificate when serving as a certificate authority to validate its authenticity.

Let's see how it goes. I'm afraid even while being privacy friendly with this system Pornhub will block access here to as a threat to other places. At the end is a private company and blocking minors from accessing their content cost them big money, and, of course, money is the only thing that matters to them.

There's a certain argument that it might be preferable from a privacy standpoint if people used VPNs in general, though it sure isn't ideal from a performance standpoint.

Go on, Texas, try to ban VPNs.

the porn must flow

The only thing that matters is texas loses

... Then they banned VPNs. Thanks to the Republicans we have scorched sky's... We don't know who stroke first, but without Internet we are now a real communicative country with people who..... Billy! Put your rocks down man! I'm trying to tell you s story about how important Republicans are to us and yet you choose to distract the entire class with your rock tossing game!

I wonder how many people here never saw porn before they were 18.

Just gonna leave this predictable comment right here: https://lemmy.world/comment/8449238

They "right porn" to keep it entirely out of the public eye so they can follow their illegal and inhumane sexual shit in private. You're searching for the real perverted bastards? The one's who's shouting against sexual freedom the loudest. Search their computers.