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return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 个月前

Almost the entire US South is now being blocked by Pornhub

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Almost the entire US South is now being blocked by Pornhub

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Supreme Court ruling could end Pornhub blackout across US South.
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    1. It thinks your connection comes from Virginia for some reason. Specifically, it thinks your public IP geomaps there. You can use https://whatismyipaddress.com/ to see where their database would pin it.
    2. You can’t
    3. They really shouldn’t. But the sites are asking for them because they are required, by law. The alternative is to block those connections, as PornHub decided to do.

    Such laws now exist in Florida, South Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Virginia.

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      Tennessee as well.

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      So basically only the worst states in the country have this law. Color me surprised.

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        Colour, you say? Nah, doesn’t have anything to do with it, surely.

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