Why are they trying to sell a VPN in the countries where users barely need it?

▲ ShowalkKama 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

https://www.pornhub.com/blog/age-verification-in-the-news

Over the past year, Pornhub had to make the difficult decision to block access to users in the following American states due to Age Verification laws:

    Alabama
    Arizona
    Arkansas
    Florida
    Georgia
    Idaho
    Indiana
    Kansas
    Kentucky
    Mississippi
    Missouri
    Montana
    Nebraska
    North Carolina
    North Dakota
    Oklahoma
    South Carolina
    South Dakota
    Tennessee
    Texas
    Utah
    Virginia
    Wyoming

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yichk 4 hours ago | parent [-]

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encrypted_bird 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Oh shove off with this Puritan attitude. First off, you're implying most of PornHub is rape. That'a ridiculous; no one is uploading videos of actual rape to PornHub.

Secondly, porn ≠ abuse. It's an actual industry and so obviously the treatment of women varies by company.

Simply put, if you don't like porn, DON'T WATCH IT. Don't try to shove your personal beliefs on everyoje else.

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yichk 3 hours ago | parent [-]

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encrypted_bird 3 hours ago | parent [-]

1. That's an opinion piece, not a piece of investigative journalism.

2. That's from 5 years ago; who knows if this is even still the case, even assuming it's as widespread as the opinion piece claims.

3. See my second point.

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JasonADrury 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Can gay men still watch porn, or should they feel bad too?

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dawnerd 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I hate about full access to Reddit? Discord? Have you tried accessing the internet from a location with these laws in place?

▲ mrweasel 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That feels weird to me as well. I get that they need to trial it, but United States, France, Germany and the United Kingdom isn't really the countries I'd priorities for a free VPN.

I understand that a number of people in both the US and the UK is struggling right now and may not be able to affort a VPN, but their primary need is to avoid age restriction, while a large number countries are censoring the internet for political reasons. That latter seems more important to address.

▲ sunaookami 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

A VPN is more relevant than ever in Europe.