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Sexuality is a human right, and controlling sexuality is an authoritarian tactic to manufacture compliance.
“Age verification” is not just a tool for elimination of Internet privacy, it’s also a tool for sexual control.
Someone has been reading 1984… I’m not disagreeing with you, just saying ‘hi fellow doom reader’.
Bro, we are living 1984.
2026 - 1984 = 42
o__O
I remember when you didn't have to have a VPN to enjoy the internet.
If you live in the UK or in another country where porn is being restricted:
- Talk with friends and family about getting a VPN (EDIT: Some recommendations I've heard are Air VPN, Private Internet Access, and, despite not having port forwarding, which is essentially one less major feature, Mullvad VPN. A thank-you to @jmf@lemmy.dbzer0.com for suggesting the former two.)
- Learn to use the Tor network (it's really easy to start, and unlike popular belief, Tor isn't only for illegal activities)
- Pressure MPs that didn't vote in favor of the age verification bill by sending emails to them about it so that they fight (or keep fighting) this age verification nonsense.
You don't need to be a porn addict to do these things. In fact, they have started with porn, but they may as well keep going and fight for age verification in other types of content, making access to said content way more difficult. The best thing you can do right now is to learn to fight back.
If you live in the UK or in another country where porn is being restricted: Talk with friends and family
Hmmmmm... Maybe not though
" Help me, stepbro. I can't access PornHub anymore 🥹 "
Im stuck in age-verification
Advertising for mullvad harms the peer2peer network. (They blocked port forwarding and won't be bringing it back)
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UK is going to be requiring age verification for VPN access. https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-house-of-lords-votes-to-extend-age-verification-to-vpns
Will this mean all VPNs will comply? Obviously not, but the bigger names will either pull out or comply as we seeing with the bigger porn sites.
The next step after this will be criminalization of using a VPN without age verification.
Don’t use tor for porn. Use i2p. You can torrent without breaking shit on i2p.
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Some random YouTube video? Weak.
Anyone who thinks a government can ban VPNs without destroying economy is deluded. Politicians who say they will don't understand the internet, they're old. Countless businesses use them every day.
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And UK bollocks grew 5 shades bluer that winter
They don't need those wankers!
Yall may wanna step in and nip that kind of authoritarianism in the bud because it doesn't get easier when it's matured.
Looks like it were gonna go back to private VPNs with 10/20 people putting in each month to pay someone in a unrestricted area to run them a VPN.
Keep it small, make it look like enterprise kinda shit.
Have the porn companies released numbers on how affected their traffic has been with an these new rules? I could see them not wanting to they're getting hurt but would be interesting to see
Are they partnered up with VPN companies by any chance?
Coz thats the only place porn exists
Policy makers so naive
Hey I heard that theres a Very Pretty Neat trick for Brits to "travel abroad" effortlessly
Not really. They just announced they want to age gate VPNs too.
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Good job UK, you will push children to dangerous unmoderated sites instead! All in the name of state surveillance!
This will lead to, sexual blackmail of children, suicide and financial fraud.
You should thank the UK for sacrificing so many of its citizens to show the world what peak government stupidity looks like. We thought the point was made with Brexit, but the UK says “hold my beer” one more time.
What would we even call a decentralized porn site?
Wouldn’t the ideal be self hosted content made by the people hosting it? Obviously there’s no mechanical means to block people from uploading content that they don’t make, but those kinds of ethical questions and control of access can be handled by federation networks.
Decentralizing these things could lead to a better way for sex workers to work safely (SESTA/FOSTA closed up a lot of safer avenues for sex work in the US) There’s a lot of rules for trust that you can build into these systems, things like basic encryption with private and public keys.
Someone who didn’t want their content online could take it down easily. They could easily gate it - like, think about where most of the profit the actresses and actors videos go to now? If you are watching stuff for free on a website, it’s the website getting ad revenue and maybe the company. Do they get royalties? Workers should own the means of their reproduction.
circlejerk?
Fapiverse
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This leaves citizens with a torrent of questions.
You really need a VPN to torrent safely, and the UK Government is in the process of restricting VPNs.
I guarantee there will still be VPNs accessible in the UK no matter what they try. My money is definitely on Mullvad still being accessible for one.
Oh no... Let's just Google what other porn sites are out there. Oh look 1,642,000 results found...
That's not the point. This is a protest by the company running these sites against a system that's not fit for its claimed purpose (age restriction of websites) but is very fit for surveillance.
Tally ho chaps. God hates wankers. 
There calling it NoFap February.
I think it will be interesting to see what happens as a result of cuting a population off from porn.
They will just rely on illegal outlets now lol Can’t wait to see people locked up for porn lol one of the stupidest ways to spend government money lol
Texas did the same shit not long ago. VPN usage went through the roof, as expected.
So that's why that back mirror episode with the pig was set in the UK. They knew.
It‘s a British series.
VPN industry .... EXPLODES!
I’m actually a little concerned some of porn torrenting communities aren’t ready for the jump to i2p yet. Gaytorrents, for example, seems to think this all being blown out of proportion and couldn’t possibly effect them.
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