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What vpn obfuscations do you use? Because you know they'll block vpn next.
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Uk is even more puritanical than the US,
That's where the puritans came from.
They fled Britain and stayed in Holland a few years first.
They're already blocking states in the US.
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.
Hey I heard that theres a Very Pretty Neat trick for Brits to "travel abroad" effortlessly
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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.
Which will be reacted to with even more authoritarian shit.
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If you live in the UK or in another country where porn is being restricted:
- Talk with friends and family about getting a VPN (everyone says good things about Mullvad VPN, so it's probably one of the best choices)
- 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
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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.
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Advertising for mullvad harms the peer2peer network. (They blocked port forwarding and won't be bringing it back)
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Yall may wanna step in and nip that kind of authoritarianism in the bud because it doesn't get easier when it's matured.
They don't need those wankers!
Coz thats the only place porn exists
Policy makers so naive
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.
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What would we even call a decentralized porn site?
Why did your politicians become right-wing grifters? Genuine question.
Sometimes you can bait leftists into "taking the moral high ground"...
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.
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And UK bollocks grew 5 shades bluer that winter
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
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Apparently according to the users here I2P is a good tool, so any good guides on I2P ?
Would appreciate it. Been meaning to learn about I2P for a long time.
They want to stop us from gooning This is how it starts Then they move onto full internet censorship
Yes, porn is basically the "canary of the coal mine" of the internet & please use "masturbation", we are the sane ones here.
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.
What specific knowledge you have
There are sages all around us. Sometimes tho ... Asking for their wisdom comes with a curse.
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