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At the dawn of the new year, Pornhub will leave Florida. Thanks to a harsh new age verification law that takes effect on January 1, the porn giant will no longer do business in the sunshine state. The law mirrors similar laws passed in other Republican led states where Pornhub has stopped doing business.
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The Florida Oblast will turn into the f’n People’s Republic of China.
That never works.
They will just use XVideos.
“Welcome to the club.” - a Texan
Hello VPN.
Probably easier to just leave Florida.
If I found myself in Florida, I’d pull out before I finish too.
gotta buy me vpn stocks.
The milf and step sister markets are about to take a hit
Conservatives love losing freedoms.
I have two reactions
- Oh no, anyway. VPNs exist
- This is scary, these Verification Laws are killing the internet even more painfully than the corporate takeover.
There will now be over 115 million Americans affected by this growing ban. Now over one third of the population, yes a full 34.4%, will not be able to access pornhub in their state without using a VPN. And we all know they are coming for the VPN next.
They’re welcome to try, but I seriously doubt they will be successful
Yeah just about every company uses VPNs too.
And more importantly, these laws are written so broadly that these age verification laws can be applied to any website that the state government doesn’t like whether they host porn or not. CNN posts article about killings in Gaza? That’s not appropriate for children so ID needed. Left-wing forum that’s critical of the local Republican government? Well that’s not appropriate for children either so we’ll need to see the IDs of everyone that has ever visited the site.
I hope these laws get overturned sooner than later but I won’t hold my breath.
CNN posts article about killings in Gaza?
The only killings in Gaza CNN would post about is IDF and hostage deaths.
I literally thought the same thing while writing it, but still wanted to use a mainstream source as an example.
“Land of the free”
They should really look at changing their national anthem.
The real issue is that most people dont know how to use vpns. So they just go to sketchier websites.
Pornhub should come out with their own vpn service as a fuck you to the gop. Because while they may not “service” certain states, I’d bet those citizens still use pornhub and other sites.
Don’t want them to ban vpns
Just curious, but how would that be enforced?
You could ban them from mainstream marketplaces. If you remove them from the apple store and play store, they’re gonna struggle, even if you still have F-Droid. If they ban hosting source code, maybe some federated git servers and maybe even gitlab will hold strong, but github will roll over like an obedient dog because it’s owned by Micro$oft. Some people will fight for it, but if VPNs lose 75% of their revenue, we will all suffer.
I honestly don’t know enough about it but I’m sure there’s a way, maybe get isp’s to flag traffic going to known vpn servers and fine them if they connect users or something like that?
Why, is it impossible or difficult to enforce?
Why, is it impossible or difficult to enforce?
Not sure, that’s why I asked out of curiosity. But I would assume so; it’s very easy to get WireGuard setup on a Raspberry PI or just about any SBC. For example, you could setup a SBC with a usb WiFi adapter, travel to a state where VPNs aren’t banned, connect to public WiFi and with a little additional config (changing ports), you’re good to go.
It’s good to be a VPN service these days. I bet business is up.
They can probably include it with PH Premium.
They sort of did awhile ago with VPN hub. I haven’t heard about it in awhile though. I wonder if they’re trying to distance themselves from it
oh no! imagine all the seedy porn studios in Florida that will likely be taking their tax revenue somewhere else.
So it can finish on FL’s face?
Headline is 10/10.
I mean, it kind of writes itself, but yeah. Sometimes the easy ones are, in fact, the best ones.
First time I heard it as a joke was from George Carlin discussing how wars are inherently phallocentric.
