Parental controls: exist
Law makers: But what if we made people submit really sensitive information instead of requiring websites to identify themselves as adult for the purpose of content filters?
this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2025
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What, parents actually parenting and monitoring what their children do? Talking with them about being online?
Granted I say this sarcastically and then mom and dad both fall for AI garbage on Facebook yet again so maybe I should rethink that they are even capable of having a discussion on critical thinking
The irony being this sort of thing will make people more used to sharing very sensitive information online and more likely to fall for phishing attempts. Like the parents who couldn't figure out parental controls in the first place probably are.
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The problem is that once it will be normal to request IDs for porn, the same will be extended to everything else with excuses like “let’s do it for the kids” or “if you don’t have anything to hide…”.
VPNs… yeah sure, until there will be a crackdown on those too.
Good luck. Even China isn't able to fully crack down on VPNs or Tor.
China doesn't want to
Just like the US gov not catching drug lords when they do stupid stuff
Just them trying hurts a ton tho.
it kinda confuses me that china couldn't restrict VPN and Tor if it wanted to. i rather suspect they turn a blind eye, for some reason.
IIRC it's mainly that many corporations depend on VPNs for security - blanket banning would make it pretty hard for multinationals to work in china
Remote work/administration too. I work on servers one of which is behind the chinese firewall, via ssh. ssh can carry socks natively, I could build a crude throttled but working vpn in seconds.
China is also slowing transfers in general, I guess to push domestic providers and servers. Even with that if they don't want to sever all economic and scientific connections it will remain possible, though cumbersome to most.
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There are too many ways around it to viably block VPNs and Tor. Both offer bridge services that don't look like VPNs and can come from different places.
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My VPN is in Switzerland, they have strong protective laws, for now.
Guess we'll all have to download and prepare to share!?!
To save costs on VPN services, Rsync the wank bank for all your mates to share. This month it's Daves turn so expect lots of scat but I did put in a request for incest too.
What's the schedule on airdropping porn mags into the UK woods?
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Is there a joke I'm missing?
I think the UK recently enacted a law requiring photo ID for accessing porn sites. A VPN can get around this.
Also gaming sites, any nsfw marked channel on discord even if its for memes, certain games on steam, just a shit ton of stuff that I expect to keep expanding beyond the scope of porn.
Thanks
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Saw a comment saying the ID process accepts any ol' ID sample pic you find from a quick image search online.
1 million McLovins beating their meat while the government watches from the cuck chair.
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Footy?
Sick skateboard footage taken with a $100 camcorder and a wide angle lens.
Stackin footy refers to the action of going out and filming yourself and friends skateboard for video parts.
You sarcastic bastard, that was a beautifully crafted reply. Also, TIL
Football.
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I'm all for VPN services, but I seem to recall some sketchy things about Proton in particular - anyone have any alternatives they like?
Mullvad
mullvad is good for most casual users but if you want to do anything technical i’d steer clear.
you can’t forward the ports anymore in mullvad. don’t get me wrong, they did it as a measure to reduce the volume of CSAM and other trauma-inducing imagery their administrators had to deal with and i totally respect that reasoning. people get legitimate PTSD moderating and administrating certain platforms/services.
just a shame torrenting gets made harder for everyone because of a handful of despicable individuals.
The reason they disabled this was it was a possible privacy leak. This means if you are using a VPN that enables port forwarding, you might be at risk.
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