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Pornhub, YouPorn, Redtube, and other content sharing platforms will block new users in the UK starting next week(February 2) (www.aylo.com)
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[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

They fully can't, there's too many legitimate reasons that their corporate overlords use it for, the most you'll get is loud filibuster about "we'll totally do that!" until the topic gets forgotten.

Also, my personal conspiracy is that someone important in the gov owns some secret stocks and shares in a VPN company and this was very much a cash grab from that person.

[–] pressanykeynow@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Again, that's not some theoretical topic. They can block most VPNs, they do so in China, Russia, Iran. And there are no riots on the streets, their corporate overlords don't do anything against it. One of the reasons is that they do allow ipsec for corporate clients. Are you a corporate client? Do you use ipsec for vpn? Are there riots on the streets for this censorship instance?

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

You think the UK could?

The "tech experts" in government are fucking idiots, almost every single one of them. The most I think they'd be capable of asking providers nicely to follow their rules and then going "hahaha, no", same as happened for every other time.

And I know for a fact that those blocks in China and Russia don't work, cause I talk to a Russian on the daily (she wants to get the fuck out, but hasn't got enough money)

And one major difference, it's very very very easy to form a company in the UK, it's literally a small fee and a form that takes 30-60 minutes to fill in