You forgot the third car using a VPN to get all the content they’re actually paying for on all of their streaming apps
A 4th car is going to the highseas.
Baton down the hatches and raise me sails matey!
Baton
Batten
Maybe they were just really stubborn.
I just want to watch the Japanese Netflix anime drops. Is that so much to ask for natively?
Texas residents using a VPN for porn
And Louisiana. People forget that it was first in the porn ban that doesn’t even work.
Don’t forget Virginia!
Virginia living up to its name with the state mandated NoFap challenge.
I live close enough to Tennessee that I turn off my WiFi and let the cellular take me there haha.
I’m one of these Texas motherfuckers getting fucked with by this dumb shit. I am in the market for a cheap, effective VPN.
I’m thinking about trying Express VPN, but I haven’t had time to do all the comparison shopping for which one is actually best. I don’t need a shitload of different devices, all at once. At most, I need to maybe cover one desktop PC and two WiFi devices. But I’d be cool with just one seat.
Anyone got recommendations?
Mullvad VPN is my go-to. No nonsense and meets all of my needs.
Hadn’t even heard of them. I’ll look into it. Thank you!
I’m using Private Internet Access. It was purchased by a company some people think are sketchy, but they work well in my experience and are cheap. If you really need security that you trust, maybe go somewhere else. If you just need a VPN that works and is cheap, it’s an option.
I just heard that Express VPN was bought by a shady company, too. I wonder if it’s the same one.
EDIT: Yep. It’s the same one. Kape technologies. They are apparently pretty evil.
Try WindScribe. You won’t regret it.
$69 for a yearly plan. They know what it’s being used for.
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Bout to be CO too, not just limited to red states unfortunately.
Admittedly, it’s not just for porn, but social media in general. Either way, the same reasoning applies, I’m not giving a third party company my identity just for a social media account and I’m certainly not going to do it for porn
Can someone explain it to Europeans?
Several states with republican leadership have required identification to view sites that have “adult content”. You technically can still access it without a VPN in these states, but I’m not trusting these sites with personally identifying information. Depending on the state I think you have to upload an image of your ID and other information. It’s really sketchy.
Oh man, this is a much better comparison.
It’s still not perfect, though, since technically porn isn’t banned, but it’s effectively banned by requiring ID checking, which major websites like pornhub refuse to do.
But this also allegedly targets “culture”, just like China’s great firewall. It’s pretty damn stupid.
Americans who pluralize with an apostrophe.
For serious. 😵💫🖕🏽
mostly a mistake af habbit
I think it’s perfectly acceptable with TLAs. Just using the lower case s makes it seem like it could be an extension of the short hand.
Chinese citizens using VPN to access TikTok too.
Specifically American tiktok. The tiktok they have isn’t the same. Iirc It’s only educational stuff, and you get a time limit.
It is not American tiktok. It is tiktok for the world except China who owns tiktok.
They’re gonna be real disappointed with the version of “Tiktok” available in China
TikTok isn’t banned in canada, or the UK, or a number of other english speaking non-US countries
There are…other countries? WHAT!? 🫨
Why would they VPN to the version of the app that has less English speakers?
to learn? To experience something new? Monolingual life starts loosing it’s charm.
I still fell like unless you want to learn Chinese specifically, the non Chinese version would explose you to more foreign languages. Guess its up to you, but I’d imagine they’d just VPN to the same verion they’re using now.
well now i wanna just cus i’m getting pushback
you’ve fallen for my trap card; the allure of forbidden fruit!
I don’t blame you, I play Genshin so Chinese tiktok would probably have some neat stuff
*losing
yeah, that’s… thanks for illustrating my point
I’ve got Chinese GenZ TikTok pegged as 10x more entertaining than American Boomer Facebook.
I’m using a VPN to byapass porn blocks while I’m stuck as an inpatient in hospital.
Off topic but I really enjoyed much of this show (Umbrella Academy), particularly I was so impressed with how the child actor actually pulled off carrying the entire show, he was not only the leading & most interesting character but also IMO had one of the best performances on it. Come to think of it, I should look into what else he’s done.
Anyway, what episode is this from, do you know? (I know it’s just a meme format now, worth a shot tho)
Excellent post btw, I gave all the upvote I could
Five and Klaus carried the show
If you like Klaus you should watch a show the same actor did years ago called Misfits! He kind of carried that show too, it was never quite as good after he left lol
The umbrella academy was hard carried by five. The actor really pulled off the adult stuck in a kid’s body thing. The actor that played the guy with addiction issues was great too.
using VPNs*
It’s the VPN’s service.
Anytime I see a misplaced apostrophe I assign some kind ownership to it. This one’s okay.
This is the kind of thing that gets to me in this whole TikTok situation the most.
China bans most American based social media and what it doesn’t ban is heavily monitored censored and regulated.
Why would we (Americans) want to willingly use a Chinese owned/based/operated social media platform like TikTok?
We should never have started using it in the first place or at least immediately dropped it as soon as it became common knowledge that it had substantial ties to china.
There is so much hypocrisy on all sides of this issue.
What’s funny about this is that the fear of Chinese Authoritarianism leads Americans straight into American Authoritarianism.
It’s this close to self awareness and then veers straight into hypocrisy
We are not in China, are we? The (american) government should NOT have control over what information its citizens have access to. We should not strive to be like China in this regard.
I think they mean that the users shouldn’t use it. Not that the government should ban it.
China censors what its people sees on its platforms so its people started using facebook. Then China started demanding that facebook censor itself in China (there was a major terror attack that sparked this) but Facebook refused so they banned it. Same thing happened with reddit and such.
Meanwhile, the US started censoring its major media platforms people either fled to niche libre sites like this or the shiny new addictive app from China. China doesnt care about what american see. It’ll happily let american see Israelis document their war crimes. The US said, sell to american investors, and be censored or be banned. ByteDance chose being banned. Welcome to the great american firewall.
China bans most American based social media
they’ve banned all the big ones except youtube, but their version of youtube is extremely censored.
You forgot there is a tram service to Lemmy
Meh, entirely different type of SM, what we really need is the defederated version of TT
But video is expensive so it probably won’t happen for a long time
Now if TT redoes their app to be defederated to evade US law that would be hilarious
TT is the defederated TT
I think you mean federated ;)
Oof yea, that’ll teach me to comment on Monday mornings lmao
I saw a post for this service yesterday I think. I don’t remember the name of it or I’d post a link, but it is created now and I think it’s active, or will be soon. It’s only for short-form video though, like TikTok, which isn’t my style of content.
Supposedly Pixelfed or Peertube just added shorts.
A big issue with that is when I signed up to peertube 10 months ago, literally the only videos I could find were French language protestors.
They are working on it
I would have preferred if they kept shorts off.
If it gets people to start using it and uploading content overall it is a win, although my hope was that it would build out to be a PBS competitor
Hey, woah. I don’t want you to be right. I want to stew in my contempt of YouTube Shorts.
not a lot of videos hosted on lemmy
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Fun fact, China doesn’t even have TikTok, their version is strictly educational and can only be used certain times of the day, to my understanding
I’ve sideloaded douyin before, it isn’t strictly educational but I do believe if a child is using the device there is time limits. and also you can’t sign up without a Chinese ID but it doesn’t require an account. I actually did find some Americans on there who somehow found a way to sign up.
yo ho yo ho a pirate’s life for me!
Sorry…I blacked out, what are we talking about?
Except Tik Tok hasn’t been banned yet. And it’s not being banned for even remotely the same reason.
The issue with Tik Tok is that it’s owned by a company with ties to the CCP. The CCP, conversly, has “the great firewall”, which is directly intended to facilitate Chinese propaganda efforts to control their people.
Ssshhhhh… the toktok ban is ONLY about preventing speech!
Lmao. You people think CCP will use your data to control you? No way your American government can do the same, right?
You’re kinda stupid if you think big nation states outside of China do not participate in what China does. China learned from other influential countries as the CCP are the new kids on the block
Doesn’t mean American companies should be allowed to platform chinese apps.
China built their firewall to protect themselves from foreign “disinformation” campaigns. Just like we are now.
