LMAO

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?

What about all the footy fetishists? 😌

Insert meme of calendar guy turning 2020 page to 1984.

while all fair criticisms, name a country that hasn't? it's pretty much just the history of people.
and then weren't communists during the cold war
Neither was Russia /hottake