Pro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoVPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website.programming.devimagemessage-square311linkfedilinkarrow-up11.69Karrow-down117file-textcross-posted to: rance@jlai.lu
arrow-up11.68Karrow-down1imageVPN Registrations Increase by 1,000%, less than Hour After PornHub Blocked France From Accessing its Website.programming.devPro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square311linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: rance@jlai.lu
minus-squareFinch9678@europe.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up71·2 days agoOut of the loop here, why did Pornhub leave France?
minus-squareStillwater@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up179·edit-22 days agoFrance 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.
minus-squarepressedhams@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up95·2 days agoAge verification requirements.
minus-squarebender223@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up100arrow-down2·2 days agowow, didn’t expect that from france. I thought they, of all countries, would be less prudish than Texas about porn. 😬
minus-squareHadriscus@jlai.lulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up46·2 days agoWe have our own homegrown bigots, thank you
minus-squareayyy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35arrow-down2·2 days agoEverywhere has religious people that think they deserve to control others.
minus-squareKaboom@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down5·2 days agoTexas isn’t the first. I think it was started by Germany? I know the UK banned women’s orgasms and Australia banned hentai. Heck, India apparently banned porn altogether, ineffectively.
minus-squareKorne127@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·edit-22 days agoGermany didn’t do anything like that. Britain tried to ban porn like this but realized it’s a terrible idea and stepped back from it.
minus-squareohulancutash@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 days agoIronically, it was PornHub’s parent company that was set to run the UK age verification scheme.
minus-squareredwattlebird@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 days ago Australia banned hentai Did we? My scientific search the other night proves that false, and I’m not on VPN.
minus-squareKaboom@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·2 days agoThey banned the physical books, but they can’t really stop the internet
minus-squareplyth@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days ago I know the UK banned women’s orgasms Why? To prevent British women from having expectations?
minus-squareKaboom@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 days agoBecause female cum is urine according to the powers that be, and that’s too much for them.
minus-squareFinch9678@europe.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·2 days agoIt was literally the next post in my feed 😅 Thank you!
minus-squareoppy1984@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33arrow-down1·2 days agoAs one headline put it “PornHub pulls out of France”.
Out of the loop here, why did Pornhub leave France?
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.
Age verification requirements.
wow, didn’t expect that from france. I thought they, of all countries, would be less prudish than Texas about porn. 😬
We have our own homegrown bigots, thank you
Everywhere has religious people that think they deserve to control others.
Texas isn’t the first. I think it was started by Germany? I know the UK banned women’s orgasms and Australia banned hentai. Heck, India apparently banned porn altogether, ineffectively.
Germany didn’t do anything like that. Britain tried to ban porn like this but realized it’s a terrible idea and stepped back from it.
Ironically, it was PornHub’s parent company that was set to run the UK age verification scheme.
Did we? My scientific search the other night proves that false, and I’m not on VPN.
They banned the physical books, but they can’t really stop the internet
Why? To prevent British women from having expectations?
Because female cum is urine according to the powers that be, and that’s too much for them.
It was literally the next post in my feed 😅
Thank you!
As one headline put it “PornHub pulls out of France”.
🤤