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[-] skinnydugan@lemmy.dbzer0.com 86 points 3 weeks ago

Dr. Cox was right: “I’m fairly sure if they took porn off the internet, there’d only be one website left, and it’d be called ‘Bring Back the Porn.'”

[-] WhiteRice@lemmy.ml 44 points 3 weeks ago

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Tumblr the Depraved?

[-] mienshao@lemm.ee 9 points 3 weeks ago

I hate how hard this made me laugh

[-] CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

I still miss og tumblr and my little porn account i had going there.

[-] 0x0@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 weeks ago

Does oglaf count as porn?
Asking for a friend.

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[-] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 67 points 3 weeks ago

I have to admit, of all the nations on earth, I never expected this sort of puritanical theatrical authoritarianism out of the french.

[-] FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 30 points 3 weeks ago

They've been trying to block it for many years now.

France has been going downhill for quite some time. Many proposals for chat control and tracking... even recently, we got a law proposal that aimed at banning E2EE 😵

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 24 points 3 weeks ago

Damn, the whole world really is going authoritarian.

[-] FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

When it’s not about protecting kids, it’s about fighting drugs

They always have a "good" reason to remove our freedom, because apparently security seems much more important, and it seems like it’s the only way to do it. Lol.

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[-] Vermingot@jlai.lu 27 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

To clarify, the french didn't ban pornhub, it's the company behind pornhub who decided to deny it's access in France to protest a law proposal that is currently getting examined in parliament

Ps : The law in question would require all porn sites to verify the age of its users

[-] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 3 weeks ago

Ps : The law in question would require all porn sites to verify the age of its users

This is how young boys learn to computer. It won't do shit to stop anything. It's a waste of time.

[-] Kornblumenratte@feddit.org 11 points 3 weeks ago

Well – this might be more succesful in boostering the IT skills of France's next generation than any curriculum reform.

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[-] echodot@feddit.uk 11 points 3 weeks ago

The law in question would require all porn sites to verify the age of its users

Wait aren't they proposing the same thing in the US as well? It's a fairly standard thing of right-wing governments to just demand the impossible with no understanding about it could possibly be achieved.

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[-] NotKyloRen@lemmy.zip 14 points 3 weeks ago

They should actually take to the streets (again). Not joking. What is this nanny-state BS?

[-] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Democracy and general Egalitarianism is so 2008. Authoritarianism is what's hot now.

[-] Manifish_Destiny@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

I can't wait for a severe overcorrection

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[-] Object@sh.itjust.works 63 points 3 weeks ago

Blocking porn has got to be the most "why even bother" thing

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 44 points 3 weeks ago

Political theater. "Won't somebody think of the children?" is an easy win for politicians.

[-] 0x0@lemmy.zip 27 points 3 weeks ago

Plus an excuse to collect more data.

[-] loutr@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah the point is just to soften the populace to the idea. Our fucking PM covered for pedophile priests in a Catholic school 30 years ago, he doesn't give any fuck about kids.

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[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 3 weeks ago

It's not about blocking porn.

It's always about control. Conservatives want to control how you consume sexual content.

[-] Fermion@feddit.nl 15 points 3 weeks ago

It's not about that either. It's about connecting photo ID to browsing profiles and deanonymising the internet.

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[-] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 40 points 3 weeks ago
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[-] sturmblast@lemmy.world 25 points 3 weeks ago

Why do people even go to pornhub... there are so many other options

[-] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

Because it's simple and it works. When most people want to watch porn they don't spend an hour researching their best option, they just go somewhere they know and watch something there.

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[-] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago

How about you just parent your children? But it's not about the children, that's just always the convenient excuse

[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 22 points 3 weeks ago

I remember when the French used to respond to this shit with fire instead

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[-] Krompus@lemmy.world 21 points 3 weeks ago

There are other, much better sites, lol.

[-] Jhex@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago
[-] mechoman444@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago

Pervertube. Thisvid. Motherless.

I just realized indicating these websites might have revealed a little too much about the kinds of porn I like to watch. ☹️

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 26 points 3 weeks ago

Absolute degeneracy, thank you.

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[-] Krompus@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

spankbang, xvideos, eporner…

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[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 17 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

pornhub is so sanitized now, im guessing its mostly because of the OF videos. most of them are on sites that arnt affiliated with PH.

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[-] passepartout@feddit.org 16 points 3 weeks ago

I'm shocked that this many people feel the need to disobey a rule that is only there to help the children. Next step must be to ban VPNs altogether, and enforcing all Internet users to be identified with their real identity (/s obviously).

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[-] rpl6475@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 weeks ago

Dont stand between the French and porn apparently.

[-] njordomir@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

I hate how VPN access is the scaffolding holding the building up making things look normal. You can visit all your normal web sites, you can bypass georestrictions, you can be a little less tracked than you might otherwise be. But what happens when they decide to do away with that scaffolding and we all find out they tore down the house behind it while we were enjoying "normalcy". Too much of making the web functional depends on vpns and adblocking. We shouldn't have to do this stuff and Chromes adblocking scandle should impact millions of users all around the world unilaterally removing adblocking from the web. I fear for the day we have a US only internet and a global internet, not just on paper, but in actual practice.

[-] sircac@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

Intrigued by the quarter a day oscillation in that graph... 🤔

[-] SilverShark@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago

I think the oscillation described people's activity time. Over the course of a day, people who would register for a VPN are much more likely to do so during the evening, because during the day they are busy with work. So you observer on a daily basis a peak like this.

Such charts are very common with services used daily. For example, social media usage in a given region often has a peak during the morning, a big peak during lunch time, and in general goes up after work time.

Of course not everyone works at the same time, but a majority of people have more or less the same work times, so we observe the peaks.

[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

At first I suspected this was the French government demanding that 40% of the videos be made in europe using the French language.

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[-] meowmeowbeanz@sopuli.xyz 8 points 3 weeks ago

Peak French stupidity, this isn't about protecting kids - it's about building surveillance infrastructure. Back in 2024, critics already called this the foundation for a "Great Firewall of France". Once you have the legal framework to block websites and force ISPs to implement monitoring, mission creep is inevitable.

The technical approach is laughably naive. They're essentially creating a centralized system that could easily become a database of citizen sexual preferences. Even with their "double anonymity," you're still creating digital fingerprints and metadata trails.

Most importantly, it won't work. Kids will just use VPNs - the same way adults are already doing. You're not protecting anyone; you're just pushing everyone toward circumvention tools while normalizing government control over what adults can access online.

It's perfectly French because it combines maximum bureaucratic complexity with zero practical benefit, all while creating new opportunities for state overreach. Classic.

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[-] Finch9678@europe.pub 7 points 3 weeks ago

Out of the loop here, why did Pornhub leave France?

[-] Stillwater@sh.itjust.works 25 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

France passed a law requiring porn sites to verify age of all site visitors. Pornhub is blocking France instead of forcing its visitors to provide ID.

[-] pressedhams@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 3 weeks ago

Age verification requirements.

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