Texas says goodbye to Pornhub — and hello to the top 10 VPNs
mashable.com
Searches for "Texas VPN" jumped by 1,750 percent.

From the article: “Unsurprisingly, this skyrocketed searches for the best VPNs. According to a SlashGear report sent to Mashable, searches for “Texas VPN” jumped by 1,750 percent in the past day. It also spotted a 1,600 percent increase for the phrase “How to access Pornhub.””

    • BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      8 months ago

      Probably the politicians bought VPN stock just before this was ruled. Just like so many “randomly” happened to buy video conference stock just before the COVID lockdown?

  • pop@lemmy.mlEnglish
    0·
    8 months ago

    Lots of shady free VPNs out there from Chinese/Russian companies. Now instead of just letting people watch porn, they’ll send their data to a shady/foreign entity. The apps will ask all the permissions, and people who don’t know shit, will grant them.

    Same thing will happen when they ban Tiktok.

    Well done, You played yourself.

    • ferralcat@monyet.ccEnglish
      0·
      8 months ago

      Definitely no shady VPNs run by white westerners though. Theyve all got impeccable morals through ans through. Glad you cleared that up.

      • McDropout@lemmy.worldEnglish
        03·
        8 months ago

        The outlook on everything on Lemmy is driving me away from the platform. I’m not saying other platforms are any better. I might just stop using it.

        The same people who complain about government propaganda are the same people who type “Russia bad! China bad!” like it’s not decades of propaganda to make westerners hate these countries.

        • Syrc@lemmy.worldEnglish
          0·
          8 months ago

          So the Ukraine invasion and the Uyghur genocide are both just propaganda?

          • McDropout@lemmy.worldEnglish
            02·
            8 months ago

            When I see the same energy directed towards what shady activities UK/Israel/USA are doing in the Congo (child labor and genocide) or what USA/Israel is doing in Palestine (genocide) or whatever France is meddling with in Africa then I’ll see Lemmy as unbiased but it is a very biased social media website. When I see the same energy directed at the USA for killing millions of Iraqis by spreading lies and never finding weapons of masa destruction in Iraq then I’ll believe the narrative.

            And please don’t mention the Uyghur and pretend to care about the muslims only when China does it but when Israel does it, it’s up for debate.

            USA good. France good. UK good. China bad. Russia bad. Middle East bad.

            Hilarious. Wake up people.