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Porn VPN Searches Soar In Utah Amid Age Verification Bill
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"Utah's age-verification law shows a worrying trend to further restrict digital freedoms and disregard data privacy across the US," said a spokesperson of secure VPN provider Private Internet Access (PIA). "Private Internet Access is a long-time advocate of greater digital privacy, and we urge lawmakers to consider other ways of protecting children online, including education, guidance from parents, and open conversations about safe internet usage, rather than relying on increasingly intrusive digital regulations which disregard people's privacy and online freedom." You can see the spike in "virtual private network" searches via Google Trends.
"Search queries for VPN were at peak popularity in Utah just before 4 a.m. EST Tuesday, according to the trends data," notes Newsweek. "Other related queries in the past week include searches for VPN extensions like Hola and Fox Speed."
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People want porn and a state government lacks the controls to prevent people from accessing it.
Although I sure look forward to watching them try.
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If they block nice, safe, regulated Pornhub then people will go to the dodgy porn sites full of underage, unwilling girls.
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Maybe if they block the 10 billion other mainstream clearnet porn sites. And Twitter. And Reddit. And... Unless by "full of" you mean like PornHub pre-purge, where it was a handful of videos out of millions involving teenagers not obviously underage or being forced.
Or do you browse for your porn on Tor hidden services? In that case it's no accident, you went looking for CP. -
No need to go that far. Just go to Arizona where Mormons are free to rape children all they want and don't have to report it [go.com].
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My comment on the subject was ridiculed because most people obviously obey laws and kids are not going to make the effort.
The fact is that adults are not going give up privilege just because it is outlawed, and kid have nothing but time..if parents content blockers donâ(TM)t work, then why would this law?
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It may be one of those laws that are passed purely to pander to the voters, or at least a section of them. They are never expected to work and often aren't even enforced.
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I'm shocked, shocked, to find that people will circumvent regulations via technology.
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Thank god this is slashdot where no one knows what that’s like.
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That's because we have access to lots of porn sites. And Pirate Bay.
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Many years ago some friends and I drove across the United States from New York to LA over several months.
We had no intention of staying in Salt Lake City for any length of time and I can't really remember how we wound up there in the first place but we were blown away by how much Mormons drink.
We expected it to be pretty boring, but we met a couple of guys who introduced us to some girls who turned out to be extremely affectionate. At one point we were drinking in some sort of illegal after-hours joint-
Wow, I'm shocked! I mean there are NO other religions that have rules that people circumvent:
Jewish folks that use electricity and cars on the sabbath
Mormons that drink caffeine
Amish that have computers
Muslim women that don't cover their entire body
Catholics that use contraceptives
Seventh-day Adventists that smoke, drink, or danceEvery religion has guidelines and prohibitions that were set down many years or centuries ago that people have since disregarded. Dietary rules are one of the most common that pe
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Difficult when all the big ones have inherently contradictory tenets. Religion is mostly an excuse to behave however someone wanted to behave to begin with.
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It's been a long time since Utah was populated mostly by Mormons.
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According to wikipedia, at the last count Utah is 55% Mormon.
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No one's more Mormon than Mormons in the morning.
Miraculously, more morose Mormons mourn Mammon.
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Wine, women and song. The three evils.
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Don't be silly. Obviously, the age verification filters are overly broad & devout, upstanding members of the Mormon community are unable to access their favourite polyamorous magic underpants "documentaries."
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Didn't Thomas Jefferson say, "The government you elect is the government you deserve."? The people in Utah elected the representatives who passed this bill/law they're trying to circumvent, they can elect different ones or move to less repressive (probably Blue/er) states.
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To be fair, both parties are like subscribing to a cable package where you get maybe 2 or 3 things you wanted, and the remainder is a bunch of insufferable bullshit.
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Well, the government passed restrictions for age verification - which may be considered reasonable for porn sites. There was no requirement to pull out completely out of Utah.
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I don't care anymore. One side wants to ban b00bies now no matter what, the other side wants play the long game and ban b00bies by way of puberty blockers.
A pox on all their houses.
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Guns make life better for the American people? Yes, let's arm everyone so they have a ready excuse to fire off a few rounds when they get pissed.
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One side wants to ban b00bies now no matter what, the other side wants play the long game and ban b00bies by way of puberty blockers.
I'm acquainted with someone who transitioned (they're a relative of a friend) and they actually traveled from FL to NYC to have their surgery. Apparently, there's not many doctors who specialize in that sort of thing. Point being, trans people are a very small minority. With over 8 billion people on the planet, the boobies are not in any danger of going extinct.
Ostensibly, the reason behind the right wing's culture war on trans youth is that they believe the children are being harmed. Thing is, it's far more likely for a non-hetero youth to be gay or lesbian rather than trans, and the primary risk all LGBTQ+ youth face is, sadly, an increased likelihood of suicide. [thetrevorproject.org] So, if your goal is to prevent LGBTQ+ youth from coming to harm, your best bang-for-your-buck effort would be making them feel like they're a normal part of society.
Sexuality is just part of human nature, and the less we worry about what consenting adults are doing with their naughty bits (whether alone or with a partner/lover/husband/wife) behind closed doors, the better off we'll all be.
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I don't think you meant to, but you have just explained the conservative position (at least, for the reasonable conservatives). Let adults do whatever adults want to do. However, trans is somehow in vogue just now. It's all over social media, it's in advertising, etc.. There is a real danger of kids in the midst of the struggles of teen years, doing something irrevocable to their bodies.
There is also a certain danger from parents. Just like the icky parents who put their small girls into sexy costumes fo
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Read Scientific American from a few years back. There are 5 year old kids who tell their parents they are really girls when their dangly bits are male and the other way around. Waiting until they are adults is just plain silly.
At what age did you decide to be heterosexual? The conservatives are merely attempting to virtue signal Heaven that they belong there when they go tits up. So they have no problems making life miserable for those kids all the while claiming Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Hint, Jesus ran around
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5 year old kids tell a lot of things to their parents. Very few maintain that opinion a year or ten years later. It's not the age to get breast implants, tattoos or gender changing procedures. At 5 years old it doesn't matter what public washroom they use, in most cases they follow the parent. Even at 12 kids are immature and require guidance. Unfortunately for most adults it's about imposing their will rather than guiding their children.
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Worse than that, as well as harming LGTBQ people, these laws harm straight/cis children too.
What they describe as "sex education" is actually mostly not about sex at all. It's about things like consent and body image. Understanding that magazines and social media are fake, photoshopped, and really quite abnormal. Giving children an understanding of how to have a respectful relationship, and what abusive behaviour is.
Of course, at very young ages it is extremely simple stuff, like learning to ask for permiss
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You don't think kids have a better idea how to get access to porn than the crusty old fossils who enacted this law and the loons who voted them in?
Awww...aren't you cute!
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Step 1: Grab Mom or Dad's wallet
Step 2: Pull out driver's license.
Step 3: grab both sides with cell phone camera
Step 4: Enter parent's information into porn site.
Step 5: Profit! Or be told that they already have an account...-
ROFL!!! Yeah, Mom and Dad are a lot dirtier than you thought they were. Love it!
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Who are you saying overreacted here?
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The problem is that a disproportionate amount of those age verification systems are run by bad actors who will charge your cc far more than a nominal age check fee.
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Why should I suffer to protect your kids? If you can't be assed to raise kids, don't have any.
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Because said kids will wipe your ass in the elderly home when you can't do it yourself. Whaaa? You thought "I'm saving in retirement fund, I don't need anyone's mercy"? And what exactly do you think all that money in your retirement fund is going to be worth, without a younger generation workforce to provide backing for that money?
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Can cause you to type wrong passwords.
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Next the state of Utah will go after the customers who are using VPNs to circumvent the law.
Is there traffic that looks like you might be using a VPN? Encryption? That's reasonable suspicion to get a warrant to look for the VPN software on your computer. They will come to your door with a warrant to search and seize your electronic devices. They will take them and find your dirty, dirty, little secrets. And anything else that's interesting on your computers and tablets and phones. All archived on the disk i
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Were you being sarcastic? With all the work-from-home going on, there is a lot of VPN usage, and the whole point of a VPN is to mask the traffic, so usage of a VPN provides no reasonable suspicion.
Of course, with the current Supreme Court, ideology trumps facts and prior decisions, so the fact that VPNs are overwhelmingly used for business might not be a reason to treat VPNs as suspicious.
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If you want to be a respectable God-fearing citizen in Utah, you need the new VVN service.
It's like a VPN, but rather than hiding your porn surfing, it provides content filtering. You set up your home Internet so that everything always and provably goes through the VVN. There are several VVN services, which are effectively like ISPs, that are certified by the Church. Mainly for Mormons, but perhaps some for Catholics, too.
The customer lists for the VVNs are totally public and up to date. This way, everyone
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... is that they want a credit card for it. In and of itself this is not a problem, but then they go and start racking multiple charges on it that you never agreed to (so much for not charging like they say). sure you can dispute the charges but the fact is that what are now clearly bad actors now have your cc and your only recourse is to cancel the card. This can be a big pain in the ass if you have any other payments that regularly use that card.
They don't accept prepaid gift cards for age verificati
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Before the internet we'd go to a newspaper store where nobody knew us and bought it there. Or found our parents' stash or knew a friend who had found that first.
Recently, Anglosaxan populists have found ways to out themselves as holier than the pope. Congrats./s
Of course such measures are ineffective. With the internet comes the tech to enforce official age restrictions and the tech to bypass any such restrictions.
Simplistic populists gonna find eye catching simple 'solutions' for their equally simple elec
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Regular consumption of porn will RUIN any chance you have of having a relationship with a real person. It is a lie, and it makes you ugly inside. You will feel 100% better about yourself immediately after deciding to stop.
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Regularly posting stupid fuckery will RUIN any chance you have of having a friendship with a real person. It is a lie, and it shows you're an idiot inside. We will feel 100% better about Slashdot immediately if you just fuck off.
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