Pornhub Is Now Blocked in Almost All of the U.S. South

Picture conservative white southern men who never got their GED trying to frantically Google what a VPN is, because they're missing their interracial porn before the Klan meeting that night.

I guess the South is going to have a harder time rising now.

The party of small government

Remember when conservatives complained about the nanny state?

This is asinine, even when internet access to porn didn’t exist people had so much porn, and they’ll continue to get it. All this does is shift the business elsewhere.

So people better understand: Pornhub did not get banned by law. There is a law that requires porn sites to verify age with IDs in many southern states. Instead of complying Pornhub location banned themselves.

And yet when we pointed out that Project 2025 talked about banning porn, a lot of people didn't think it was serious. This is just one way that such an idea can play out.

I don't think porn could ever be fully banned - prohibition doesn't work. (Besides, I already made a promise to create erotic art specifically in order to spite any such enacted law.) But considering how modern porn and its variety has enabled many people to acquire niche preferences, this is still going to trigger a challenging time for a lot of people.

lol .... as if .... I'm sure there is a boom in subscriptions for VPN services in the south at the same time .... especially for every political office holder at every level of government

Others have mentioned already - the issue here isn't porn sites being banned, but states mandating age verification and the privacy concerns related to that verification.

I'm not sure I even care about an age limit being enforced for pornography, but doing so will necessitate de-anonymizing internet traffic (further) and make private browsing less feasible. There are other laws being proposed that would require personal identity verification on social media sites, too, and that would be the death of lemmy and any other anonymous shitposting sites that are left.

If only someone could invent a VPN. One of these days...

But how will the south watch all that transexual porn they love so much?

I hope PH is putting a list with the names of the representatives who are responsible for this on the home page for those states. With phone numbers and mail addresses of the reps offices.

Literally 1984

One of the things that stuck out to me while reading in school was the sexual frustration part

The Red States are turning into the fucking PRC. Carry on...

For every 1 porn site that has to comply with US regulations there are 100 that don’t and they won’t implement any IP blocks. Absurd that they really think this will have any effect.

So what I'm reading is that VPN business is going to continue to thrive. But that also is an age limit hurdle, I suppose.

So… wait. How will conservatives watch all their sister porn now?

e621 was blocked in my state and... then they realized the law wasn't being enforced and unblocked themselves

Canada saw what was happening in the US South and decided the they need a friend. Canada is the process of passing their own "Protecting Young Persons from Exposure to Pornography Act".

I feel like if there was some type of course that would teach young people about sex and porn in a healthy manner. We could call it "sex education". This would be far better use of tax payers money instead of knee jerk bans and overreaching privacy violations.

Guess its back to finding nudie mags in the woods like the old days.

It would be a great time to be a VPN company right now.

Edit: On second thoughts, this is great, because it normalizes VPN usage too

How utterly bizarre.

We need a modern day Larry Flynt.

They saw what happened to NC governor candidate. They made it illegal for anyone in the future NOT to use a VPN.

Ya see, up north, we believe in a lil thang called FREEDOM! 😎

Not with a VPN it isn’t.

on the bright side at least torrenting will become more mainstream 😅

I had no idea that US states could block websites at the state level

I live in Maryland. There is a law under review currently. It has not been passed. I joined a site, and was fine for a day. Went back on the next day and got the verification notice.

I looked up the status of the law, and freaked out thinking I was being scammed.

So whats Desantis etal doing for gay sissy porn to jack to now ?

I live in a state where it’s not banned and it’s so annoying when iCloud Relay routes through one of the states in the South. I need to turn iCloud Relay off and proceed.

Get yer hands off your satanic bits, American South, and your asses back in the church pews where you belong!

🎶 onward christian soldiers, marching as to war 🎶

PRAIZE BE 2 JEEBIS HALLE BERRY (fully clothed)

We did it! We beat beating it!

What about other millions of porn sites?

Traffic in truck stop bathrooms and motels near Sunday schools has spiked dramatically as the access to porn sites has gone down... Very weird coincidence.

Blocked. But far from inaccessible lol

Incredible. I never thought this would happen.

17 US states are at the same level as Russia right now, when you look at pornhub blocked areas.

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This is why VPNs exist. Happy surfing, folks.

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