Searches for VPNs spike in Texas after Pornhub pulls out of the state
Source: CNN Business
Updated 11:57 AM EDT, Fri March 15, 2024
CNN Searches for virtual private networking (VPN) software briefly spiked in Texas this week after Pornhub suspended service in the state over a law forcing adult websites to verify the age or identities of their users. The four-fold rise in Google searches for tools that can circumvent the state-level blocking suggests the law may already be having unintended side effects, days after a federal appeals court upheld the legislation and said it could remain in effect.
Visitors with Texas IP addresses who visit Pornhubs website are now presented with a full-page message calling the Texas law ineffective, haphazard, and dangerous.
Until the real solution is offered, we have made the difficult decision to completely disable access to our website in Texas, the message reads. In doing so, we are complying with the law, as we always do, but hope that governments around the world will implement laws that actually protect the safety and security of users.
Search interest in VPNs began disproportionately rising in Texas Thursday compared to the rest of the country, according to a CNN analysis of Google Trends data quadrupling in the hours following Pornhubs announcement before retreating slightly by early Friday morning.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/15/tech/vpn-searches-spike-texas-pornhub/index.html
Ocelot II
(115,719 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,768 posts)underpants
(182,823 posts)You win today
yankee87
(2,173 posts)Of course this was going to happen. I hope the VPN sites charges twice the price for these idiots.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,464 posts)Shermann
(7,423 posts)Texas you funny.
Eugene
(61,899 posts)Sue the tech companies that make circumvention available.
Force no-log VPNs out of the app stores.
The possibilities are endless.
bucolic_frolic
(43,173 posts)They banned preggers porn too? Seems kind of pervertedly ironic, and don't ask me to explain that.
durablend
(7,460 posts)Response to durablend (Reply #8)
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Marthe48
(16,963 posts)William769
(55,147 posts)progressoid
(49,991 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,529 posts)IronLionZion
(45,447 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,529 posts)Those ranchers are going to have to soothe themselves with a long hot communal shower and help each other soap up...
RSherman
(576 posts)When my nephew was 10, he stayed overnight at my house and used my computer. The next day I could see where he sent videos to his little friend using PornTube. I'm so dumb, I obviously know about YouTube, but not PornTube! So, yeah, no one was verifying the users' ages!
moniss
(4,247 posts)and they'll have more to "pronounce upon the people".