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Pornhub is pulling out of France
(gizmodo.com)
Title is perfect
I'm sure the editor who wrote that headline got a good giggle out of that.
Oh they did. Having worked as an editor in a newsroom I can assure you that the cheeky headline is never, ever accidental and the person who wrote it is always, always stroking themselves over how clever they are. They live for this shit.
Pulling out doesn't work
Well not reliably.
I stand corrected! Hehe
govts should stop making unenforceable laws
like the French govgt shouldn't even be considering making something like this if the website can just pull out of the country and still get all the traffic with vpns and tor
Modern morality policing?
Will they also make age verification required to go to the beaches in France too?
Perfect French beach picture here https://nudebeachmap.com/places/cap-dagde/
Nude beaches are not porn. Terrible comparison.
I agree with you, but the Cap d'Agde has orgies all over the town if you know where to go, it's not really for nudists.
Perhaps not but to the type of people that proposed this legislation I guarantee you they think it is.
That is a very cool website.
It's just that it's really frowned upon if you beat the monkey on those beaches.
Plus the sand is coarse and rough and irritating and gets everywhere...
That's one way to see a live goatse in the wild if you're not careful 😅
Not a reliable prevention method.
Sounds like it's time for the French to get French
What, specifically, does that mean in this context?
The French are known to protest like no other.
There's been a meme going around America lately that we need to take some inspiration from our French cousins. But it sounds like they need to find some more of that fire themselves if this is the state of things (I'm also including the smoking ban the article mentions)
Anal sex?
Isn't Pulling Out a category on Pornhub?
On an entirely-unrelated note, I would make the following observations:
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Monaco has no such law that I am aware of.
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French is used in Monaco.
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I don't know whether Pornhub cares about the IP address from whence a user is accessing it, but NordVPN appears to have Monaco exit nodes.
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Pornhub apparently accepts cryptocoin payments via Verge.
French is also used in Belgium, and in Switzerland somewhat. Plenty of vpn locations to choose from.
Also iirc it's just a shitty DNS block just like our piratebay block, so just changing your DNS to anything not hosted in France should work
thinkofdachildra strikes again
Requiring sites to verify users without presenting them with a digital solution to do that is wild
You cannot tell people that they should send copies of their ID to random porn sites lmao
This move hasn't done anything for changing the laws in Texas.
It protects PornHub from litigation, though.
Which is the point of the legislation. It's not about protecting kids. It's going after people they consider their enemies.
Too late France is already pregnant!
Serious note the only way to fight these laws is to make the ip addresses of visitors publicly available.
Watch as every high profile person suddenly switches position
“Pulling out” 💦
Merde
Where you going Stepbrother?
XVideos will be used more.
I know nothing of their ethics, but PornHub looking like it’s made for a 2009 iPhone will always steer me to Xvideos
Pornhub seems to be the sacrificial site so all the other MindGeek sites can keep going.
I am sure the fact that Pornhubs owners have their own AgeID solution that they have tried to sell to governments like the UK and didn't win exclusive rights has nothing to do with their decision to pull out of France.
How do I now keep my baguette in good condition?
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