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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    8 months ago

    They just make it a law and use it against people at will. They make it the ISPs responsibility for blocking and tracking access. They ban vpn software and all the corporate OS makers obey.

    You’re right in a way, how do they really have a 100% block? It’s not possible. But they can scare 90% of users away.

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      8 months ago

      That’s not feasible. A lot of companies have VPNs to protect their own networks. This increased with work from home during the pandemic. There are too many domino effects.

      With SSH and an AWS instance, I can create my own VPN. It’s not that hard with a bit of Linux experience. Canada would be about as successful at this as the US was at keeping PGP away from foreign exports.

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      8 months ago

      Again, how do you track a connection to a data center? VPN software is freely available on GitHub. Are you blocking GitHub too?

      Even China can’t do it fully

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        8 months ago

        Again, if vpns are banned, and vpn software is banned, all US companies will have to abide or die. GitHub is American. Apple, Microsoft, Google, etc. Windows, macOS, Android, could all be forced to report. The year of the Linux desktop!!

        Your ISP knows where you go. They just pull the plug on IPs they know are VPNs.

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          8 months ago

          No, nobody cares about Canadian law

          How do you know an IP is a VPN? I can change the address of my VPS at any time