LMAO

The problem is that once it will be normal to request IDs for porn, the same will be extended to everything else with excuses like “let’s do it for the kids” or “if you don’t have anything to hide…”.
VPNs… yeah sure, until there will be a crackdown on those too.
- My VPN is in Switzerland, they have strong protective laws, for now.
  Guess we'll all have to download and prepare to share!?!
  
  I hope it stays private, I read an article similar to this one that I hope doesn't go through.
- Good luck. Even China isn't able to fully crack down on VPNs or Tor.
  
  Just them trying hurts a ton tho.
  
  it kinda confuses me that china couldn't restrict VPN and Tor if it wanted to. i rather suspect they turn a blind eye, for some reason.
  
  China doesn't want to
  Just like the US gov not catching drug lords when they do stupid stuff

Parental controls: exist
Law makers: But what if we made people submit really sensitive information instead of requiring websites to identify themselves as adult for the purpose of content filters?
- What, parents actually parenting and monitoring what their children do? Talking with them about being online?
  Granted I say this sarcastically and then mom and dad both fall for AI garbage on Facebook yet again so maybe I should rethink that they are even capable of having a discussion on critical thinking
  
  The irony being this sort of thing will make people more used to sharing very sensitive information online and more likely to fall for phishing attempts. Like the parents who couldn't figure out parental controls in the first place probably are.
  
  Stop blaming individuals for systemic problems

Is there a joke I'm missing?
- I think the UK recently enacted a law requiring photo ID for accessing porn sites. A VPN can get around this.
  
  Thanks
  
  Yes. Thanks for the footy
  
  Also gaming sites, any nsfw marked channel on discord even if its for memes, certain games on steam, just a shit ton of stuff that I expect to keep expanding beyond the scope of porn.

To save costs on VPN services, Rsync the wank bank for all your mates to share. This month it's Daves turn so expect lots of scat but I did put in a request for incest too.
- Alabama or West Virginia?
  
  What's the difference between Alabama style and West Virginia style incest?
- What's the schedule on airdropping porn mags into the UK woods?

Footy?
- Football.
- Sick skateboard footage taken with a $100 camcorder and a wide angle lens.
  Stackin footy refers to the action of going out and filming yourself and friends skateboard for video parts.
  Via https://skatenm.weebly.com/terminology.html
  
  You sarcastic bastard, that was a beautifully crafted reply. Also, TIL
- Fussy
  
  What are you, German?
- Football I would guess
- Football aka soccer
- It’s the category that some will search once they buy VPN access
- Footy footy

Saw a comment saying the ID process accepts any ol' ID sample pic you find from a quick image search online.
- 1 million McLovins beating their meat while the government watches from the cuck chair.
- Oh yeah I should try that. Wanted to try an AI image for the selfie and discord failed to load the service to verify age. Lost interest at that point.
  More interested in things that blocked the UK than things that demand ID tbh.
  
  https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/

"Footy"?
- Short for football
  
  Which is long for soccer.

The punchline is porn.
- dude porn lmao

But VPN to the UK is one of the best ways to watch football.

I'm all for VPN services, but I seem to recall some sketchy things about Proton in particular - anyone have any alternatives they like?
- Mullvad
  
  mullvad is good for most casual users but if you want to do anything technical i’d steer clear.
  you can’t forward the ports anymore in mullvad. don’t get me wrong, they did it as a measure to reduce the volume of CSAM and other trauma-inducing imagery their administrators had to deal with and i totally respect that reasoning. people get legitimate PTSD moderating and administrating certain platforms/services.
  just a shame torrenting gets made harder for everyone because of a handful of despicable individuals.
- As a new user of proton... Id like to hear what you think is sketchy. I haven't heard anything negative.
  
  Their CTO made Twitter posts praising Trump for some of his appointments
  
  Really? It's been widely reported. But Proton has spent a lot of time and money to get seen by users who wouldn't have heard about the negative stuff. Even here on Lemmy the amount of pro-proton posts has gone up a lot since the bad stuff came out, it's pretty blatant.
  
  Here's what I was remembering; the Proton CEO had praise for some of the new Trump admin's anti-trust statements last January, and seemed to support them more generally.
  What ended up happening with that? It looked like he tried to walk it back, and maybe didn't intend for that to use the official Proton account?
- Listen man. There are no non sketchy VPN there never has been there never ever will be. Period. All you can do is the least worst one and that is proton today. Might be someone else tomorrow. If anyone tries to tell you anything different they are a liar or ignorant.
  
  Mullvad VPN?

Insert meme of calendar guy turning 2020 page to 1984.

What about all the footy fetishists? 😌

For most of world history UK has kind of been among the worst countries in the world. They were committing atrocities in the name of preserving religious ideals before nazis were even a thing. Their leadership has been starving their citizens while the monarchy lives with lavish excess since before north korea ever existed. Committing war crimes used to be as commonplace back in the day as afternoon tea.
How the UK somehow fell into public favor online seems like an anomaly to me. They got attacked during WW2 and then weren't communists during the cold war. Big woop-de-doo. People usually speak highly of UK online but any time they're in the news it's because they're doing something truly awful (recently moving towards establishing a regime of online censorship on par with that of China's).
I am shocked whenever I see people reacting to something shitty the UK is doing like its some kind of unprecedented unexpected event. They've been doing this type of shit for THE LAST THOUSAND YEARS. All I'm saying is they deserve A LOT more hate than they currently get.
- and then weren't communists during the cold war
  Neither was Russia /hottake
- while all fair criticisms, name a country that hasn't? it's pretty much just the history of people.