sorry I don’t know what any of these things are
Username does not check out.
Or it absolutely checks out.
explain
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.
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.
Wait, WHAT? They already voted? I didn’t expect that so soon…
It was planned from the beginningas the real drivers behind the detail of the legislation, the security services, knew people would use VPNs and those have always been the main target.
Its why the legislation was written in the first place. Most people’s identity is already tied to their connection via big tech social media. Its the people who use VPNs they can lose track of.
I would expect this to be a live requirement by the end of the year at the latest.
Just be glad the client side scanning keeps getting rejected thats in the same legislation.
Advertising for mullvad harms the peer2peer network. (They blocked port forwarding and won’t be bringing it back)
Are there any VPNs that didn’t? I couldn’t really find any, and tbh it’s not a massive issue for torrenting. I still upload a fair bit, but obviously not as much as I would be if I had ports open.
Private Internet Access and Njalla both allow port forwarding.
Mullvad is heavily shilled, and for some reason no online discussion ever ends on a critical note. Be wary and don’t assume the group is always correct.
AirVPN allow port forwarding.
I use Mullvad for my day to day devices like my phone and laptop, and AirVPN in my homelab for things like torrenting.
Fair point. I just assumed most people reading my message wouldn’t care much about torrenting, but in this economy where censorship is pretty much happening, port forwarding would definitely be a plus. Do you have better suggestions?
What VPN(s) would you recommend?
How does it harm p2p? I’ve been downloading and seeding without issue. Genuine question
P2P requires at least 1 person to have open port forwarding. Ideally, everyone has it open on their VPN. The more people start recommending vpns without it, the more torrents as a whole start to die as everyone I inherently becomes a burden on the system.
Don’t use tor for porn. Use i2p. You can torrent without breaking shit on i2p.
Here’s a free VPN that you can use: https://riseup.net/en/vpn
Try not to assume that there aren’t free alternatives to what “the crowd” is constantly herding you to pay for. Do some digging, and you may be surprised by what you come across.
Most of the good stuff is buried underneath mountains of bullshit.
The cost for us to offer RiseupVPN is approximately $60 USD per person per year. If you use the VPN, please consider donating at least this much. Thank you!
That’s the same as Mullvad then, or more if you consider that everyone who can afford it should pay for more than their fair share because some can not.
There’s always a 🤡 trying to get people to pay for what they can be getting for free.
If no one pays for it then it disappears, dummy.
Honk honk
It’s a volunteer service. If you use it and don’t donate but could afford to, you’re just selfish.
Now it’s a circus!
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
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.
Well it kinda is the point, people will either use VPNs or go to riskier sources. I found a new site with loads of porn and all you have to do is install their browser plug-in, and video player!
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
Oi there bruv, you got a liosence for that there wank
Oim gonna hav to clamp that willie ov yours untill such toim as the courts decide
or use vpn/proxies to get around it. these are all PH-owned sites, i wonder if it affects the non-PH affiliates porn sites.
If videos from other places with no porn are anything to go off of, they’re going to start learning how to drive their cars on two wheels without the distraction of porn.
Also seeing how many times they can get the car to spin after pulling the handbrake at highway speed.
Texas did the same shit not long ago. VPN usage went through the roof, as expected.
UK is requiring age verification on VPNs too
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.
You think it’ll be the bad example other countries learn from, but loads of other countries are already following suit.
Ah yes America, the embodiment of “if he jumped off a cliff would you do it as well?” Followed by “Hold my Bud Light”
I don’t even mean the USA, loads of EU countries, Australia, etc.
What would we even call a decentralized porn site?
Fapiverse
OpenVDA
VDA?
Open Vagina, Dick, Asshole
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?
ActivityHub Dixelfed FedTube
More importantly, what type of content would be most popular in fediverse?
Linux porn?
c/unixsocks
FaptivityPub
FapivityPub*
Coz thats the only place porn exists
Policy makers so naive
I remember when you didn’t have to have a VPN to enjoy the internet.
Tally ho chaps. God hates wankers.
VPN industry … EXPLODES!
Uk is even more puritanical than the US,
They’re already blocking states in the US.
That’s where the puritans came from.
They fled Britain and stayed in Holland a few years first.
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.
Why did your politicians become right-wing grifters? Genuine question.
Sometimes you can bait leftists into “taking the moral high ground”…
So that’s why that back mirror episode with the pig was set in the UK. They knew.
It‘s a British series.
Buy those VPN shares, lol
