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No more Pornhub? That will depend on what happens with a Senate bill (www.cbc.ca)
submitted 2 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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No more Pornhub? That will depend on what happens with a Senate bill::A Senate bill might cause the owners of Pornhub to block access to the site in Canada, its owners say.

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[–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

It's not feasible to prevent it completely, but you can certainly make it harder for the average person and discourage usage by simply outlawing it. That's what China is doing at least.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    China is not successful in it, since you can still use a VPN in China. You can even self host

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Somehow I knew when I wrote that comment that someone would interpret "it's possible to discourage VPN usage and make it harder for the layman" as "it's possible to prevent VPN usage completely and China is 100% successful at doing that". China hasn't gone all in on blocking VPN traffic either way, since corporations can still use them and tourists don't like having their internet connection dropped without warning (which they actually did at one point), but someday they might and it will probably be enough to prevent the majority from using VPNs to circumvent government censorship.

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