Pornhub goes dark in Arkansas after age verification law kicks in - eviltoast
Pornhub is protesting this law and others by blocking the site.

Pornhub goes dark in Arkansas after age verification law kicks in::Pornhub operator MindGeek has blocked all users in Arkansas from the site after the state’s new age verification law went into effect.

      • psycho_driver@lemmy.worldEnglish
        522·
        1 year ago

        I grew up there. The northern part of the state is honestly one of the prettiest parts of our country. It is also filled with some of the most vile people. Vile people from everywhere else go there to retire and add to the smegma pot.

      • TenderfootGungi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        It is a beautiful state, especially the part in the ozark mountains. But there is no way I could live there because of the people. It also lacks a single great city (Little Rock is a dump).

        • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          I’m European so I don’t know that much about stuff like this, but isn’t it kinda easy to move from state to state in US?

          • Khotetsu@lib.lgbtEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            It is, but with a few caveats that can make it outright impossible, largely down to financial issues.

            From a legal standpoint, it’s only slightly more annoying than moving from one town to another. You don’t have to go through any sort of immigration process or anything, you just inform the state you’re leaving and the state you’re moving to of the change in address, and then get tax/identification stuff done like registering your car in the new state and getting an in-state driver’s license.

            Financially, the housing market is a mess in the US right now for a number of reasons, from the number of new houses being built not keeping up with population growth for like 60 years and many empty houses being in unlivable condition due to lack of maintenance, to many homes being owned by investment companies (and wealthy Chinese apparently) as basically a high yield savings account or bought up by companies and people turning them into rental property. And that’s before you get into the logistics of moving your life to a new home.

            • Rikudou_Sage@lemmings.worldEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              Heh, sounds suspiciously similar to what’s happening in my country. Except here it’s wealthy Russians instead of wealthy Chinese. Seems the whole western world is the same kind of fucked when it comes to housing.

    • Bearigator@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      259·
      1 year ago

      I recommend using Tor browser as an alternate option. For anybody who can’t use a VPN or doesn’t want to.

      • crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        50·
        1 year ago

        I’m not sure if streaming 1080p video over Tor would be very appreciated by the rest of the network. Or that it would be a very pleasant experience.

        • Polydextrous@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          1 year ago

          Do you always stream porn in 1080p? I guess I never thought about the quality, but I honestly don’t expect anything more than 720

          • crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            7·
            1 year ago

            Does the resolution really matter? I may be wrong, but I think nobody runs a Tor node, giving away their bandwidth for free and risking jail time, just so that some random dude in Arkansas can watch some porn.

      • rog@lemmy.oneEnglish
        25·
        1 year ago

        Definitely not the right scenario for tor. If you dont care about your privacy and just want to see some titty boombom Fanny maracas then even the cheapest VPN would be a better experience.

        Really though a decent VPN should something everyone has access to though anyway.

      • Cornpop@lemmy.worldEnglish
        161·
        1 year ago

        I think a vpn is simpler than tor personally. Also then videos gonna be buffering for a minute on tor lol

        • EngineerGaming@feddit.nlEnglish
          17·
          1 year ago

          It’s not “simpler” at all because it includes the step of paying. But, indeed, better for this application.

          • z3rOR0ne@lemmy.mlEnglish
            3·
            1 year ago

            Not necessarily. Granted installing the Tor browser will set up the services/daemons and access to the appropriate ports in the background, but generally the Tor protocol has a lot more going on than a VPN.

            Additionally a VPN can be had for free from certain services like ProtonVPN. It’s not as fast as a paid VPN service, but during lower traffic times it’ll suffice. Plus if you know how to torrent over a VPN, then you just download the vids that way and you don’t need internet access every time you want to watch it.

            This plus using CLI tools like yt-dlp on sites like pornhub, xhamster, etc, and you really start to realize how ineffective bullshit laws like these are for increasingly more technically savvy youths.

      • Brudder Aaron@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        I just use OperaGX’s shitty free VPN if I need it. It works enough to get any vpn needed jobs done.