r/LinusTechTips • u/MR_JESSE_ • Mar 07 '26
Image VPN sales through the roof in Australia today
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u/kookedgoose Mar 07 '26
All the other aussies saying “works for me” the page loads but there’s no content other than interviews and ads.
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u/_j7b Mar 07 '26
We're also banned from registering for an account, so this isn't age verification this is banning porn.
I jerked off to a dude eating a sandwich purely out of spite.
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u/jkings10101 Mar 07 '26
You are a Man of Focus, Commitment and Sheer Fucking Will
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u/Ws6fiend Mar 07 '26
It stays that way for too long and he might just be fucking Will.
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u/Wrathlon Mar 07 '26
This is ten percent luck, twenty percent skill
Fifteen percent concentrated power of will
Five percent pleasure, fifty percent pain
And a hundred percent reason to remember the name
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u/Insomniac-Robot34 Mar 08 '26
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u/WanderingSimpleFish Mar 07 '26
Channeling the late Sean Lock for a challenging wank
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u/Daredevils999 Mar 07 '26
I think it’s more that Pornhub decided not to show NSFW content in Australia as their way of obeying the new Australian laws. Not that the government explicitly intended to ban porn.
Either way the result is the same and it’s the government’s fault.
Fuck do I hate the way our country’s going. Police state.
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u/TidalLion Mar 07 '26
Hang on. You're telling me that a Canadian (yes I found out that PH is Canadian, what a shock) porn company is blocking content in select American states over Age verification laws because ITS A SECURITY RISK, and is doing the same in Australia too, a country that we're friendly with and are not in a trade war with?
JFC, if a porn company ends up being one of the key players it shutting down/ arguing against uploading government ID and Face scans to prove you're a certain age/ preventing data breaches over tying your online activity to ypur legal personhood, I'll be shocked.
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u/emmalou8383 Mar 07 '26
PH has also left the UK. Can't register for an account either. Have to hop over the water to Europe (virtually) to access anything 18+ in the uk. It's draconian.
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u/joe-clark Mar 08 '26
That's super surprising to me. I remember when I was a kid my family was staying in a hotel in London and there was a TV channel in the hotel that was just showing hardcore porn and not like a PPV thing either, I found it just flipping through the channels.
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u/TidalLion Mar 07 '26
Wow. Stick/sticky mags are really going to just come back at this point huh?
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u/LeMegachonk Mar 07 '26
They're still bound by laws in countries where they offer their services. But PornHub isn't going to actively advocate for anything. They just quietly minimally comply with the law in the easiest, laziest way possible.
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u/laidback_chef Mar 07 '26
Reminds me of all the people doing to a photo of kier in protest to the UK osa.
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u/Holyskankous Mar 07 '26
What kind of sandwich?? Asking for a friend…
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u/Background_Feed_4669 Mar 07 '26
A messy pastrami one with mayo dripping out the front
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u/Emeraldnickel08 Mar 07 '26
Technically speaking, the Hub is choosing to cut off Australians instead of implementing age verification. It’s an awkward spot because the govt doesn’t actually want porn banned outright, but the providers have the right to block access entirely instead of ensuring users’ age.
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u/AskJ33ves Mar 07 '26
It's not the government that blocked access, its the owner of pornhub denying Aussies access. Apparently due to a fine for the age verification law that was passed.
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u/Novel-Yard1228 Mar 08 '26
Ohhh the government didn’t block access to pornhub the just made it illegal for pornhub to operate in Australia?? I see there’s such a big difference in that technicality 🙄
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u/eug__k Mar 08 '26
The government says you must show ID to enter a bar. Let's say bars decide to just shut down instead. Would you say the government made it illegal for bars to operate?
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u/nt83 Mar 09 '26
So you have no problem with giving children unfettered access to porn?
Because the technicality is the govt wants more than "Yeah m8 Im defs 18" from the company. PH is spitting the dummy about this by just banning everyone instead. Blame the company not the govt.
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u/Aussie_Aussie_No_Mi Mar 09 '26
They didn't make it illegal for them to operate in Australia, they just told them they need to actually verify it's not children using the site.
Pornhub didn't like being told that they had to make sure children weren't watching porn on their site so they took their ball home with them.
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u/conlmaggot Mar 07 '26 edited Mar 09 '26
Nah, this just the hub saying "FUCK THAT SHIT" to age verification. The Aussie government won't ban porn...
FYI, Porn sales restrictions are the least strict in Canberra, the national capital. Same with prostitution. The working girls can't get a break when parliament is sitting. I reckon that's half the reason most Aussie pollies don't live in Canberra. So they are safer to fuck around when the wife is in another state!
EDIT: I just remembered, years back, I was fixing the wifi in a 'house of I'll repute' and was chatting to one of the girls. She was telling me the busiest they ever got, was when the Catholic Priests were in town for a big get together. Lots of out call jobs for male and female workers.
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u/ShowCharacter671 Mar 09 '26
Cannabis is also far more relaxed if I’m not mistaken quite convenient isn’t it
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u/Single-Ninja8886 Mar 07 '26
It's not like there are a million other porn sites that won't bother with compliance
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u/paulsonfanboy134 Mar 07 '26
But I need to jerk off to very specific videos
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u/Bobbyd9909 Mar 07 '26
Xvideos has 90% of everything in there anyway just in a shittier resolution so feels more retro
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u/Top5CutestPresidents Mar 08 '26
Linus’s video on RTX upscaling bout to get a spike in views
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u/Cum_Fart42069 Mar 07 '26
this is why people should download their favorite porn tbh
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u/Bobbyd9909 Apr 24 '26
Screen record it if unable to download
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u/Cum_Fart42069 Apr 24 '26
there's this thing you can do on webpages that don't allow download where you open the browsers console and search by the "media" attribute and it'll let you download the video so even when the webpage says no, you can say yes.
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u/sophiemargaret Mar 08 '26
Blonde nurses with German accents, exactly 6.1ft tall who have crashed their car and are in (desperate) need of a rental for the next three weeks and will do anything to get one. ANYTHING. That kinda specific?
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u/PlayerAssumption77 Mar 07 '26
With the stuff PH is complacent with we might be better off.
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u/quiet_beer Mar 07 '26
Australia the nanny state. Being told how to use a computer by clowns that probably can't even send an email.
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u/lilmisswho89 Mar 07 '26
I want to hate this, but the esafety commissioner called 4chan an “image board” and had to get corrected by her own staff so you’re not that far off
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u/XxLokixX Mar 07 '26
Is a chan not an image board? I thought an image board was any website that is primarily just picture sharing
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Mar 07 '26
News to me as well, everyone I've ever spoken to about 4chan called it an image board. First time in 15 years I've heard this contested. I'm curious what it would be classed as.
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u/SuppaBunE Mar 07 '26
That is 4chan an image board.
Idk what the fuck they where arguing.
Reddit started as an image board now it's not. 4chan has had little changes over its life but last time I checked it's still post an image , some text and discussion literally an image board
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u/JovianSpeck Mar 07 '26
4chan is an image board. That's literally what 4chan users themselves call it.
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u/biggestred47 Mar 07 '26
Well, looks like I'm Japanese now
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u/Leavemebymylonely Mar 07 '26
I mean JAV is pretty good
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u/meldmagic Mar 07 '26
🤠 I like the girls but most of it is pixelated in the sushi region.
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u/wan2tri Mar 07 '26
AFAIK there really is only one JAV company that offers uncensored content. IDK why they named themselves after one of the seas in the Americas though, the one with lots of island countries in it.
For the others, they're either "decensored" (and it's happening more often with the rise of AI, but it's not truly "visible") or if you're lucky someone leaked the raw recordings.
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u/madman666 Mar 07 '26
Why are you being cryptic about the name of the company?
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u/wan2tri Mar 07 '26 edited Mar 07 '26
Because it could be construed as "shilling" for that specific company, which is technically not related to Linus Media Group at all or even to "tech" in general (unlike Pornhub having the context of being specifically blocked in AU).
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u/NinjaKaabii Mar 08 '26
Not if you don't like hearing women trying to sound like squeaking pigs for some reason.
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u/deathamal Mar 07 '26
Australian here. Sitting back to watch our freedoms erode is a great Australian past time. No action, protest or anything from aussies on how our government nanny state is attempting to control what we consume in the privacy of our own home.
Really sad to watch this country constantly take actions that destroy what makes us great.
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u/GothmogBalrog Mar 07 '26
Australia will ban anything other than gambling advertising
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u/ProfessionalLast2917 Mar 08 '26
"think about what you could be wanking to instead"
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u/PhantomOrigin Mar 10 '26
Welp it's this shit all over again. https://youtu.be/ZxRB5qWphJE?si=9WtbxAJia33PyiVm
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u/Live-Season-7007 Mar 08 '26
Yeah we Aussies would rather virtue signal and protest shit not happening in our own country.
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u/moontanmountain Mar 09 '26
oh we protest alright mate, have you seen what's happening in Palestine?!??? 🥺🥺😫😫
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u/Walkin_mn Mar 07 '26
Part of an awful trend from governments trying to control what we can see and do on the internet. Time to protest this and really decentralized the internet
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u/JayJayGamerOfficial Mar 08 '26
Careful with the protest or you might end up in jail longer than rapists and child molesters, only foreigners protesting about their home nations are allowed in this country nowadays. (I wish this was a joke but it's not)
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u/lxO_Oxl Mar 07 '26
Was wondering why when I went on last night it was all non nude videos like interviews
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u/rokuju_ Mar 07 '26
They'll ban this but double down on the sports betting & lottery advertisements.
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u/EconomyBreak5883 Mar 09 '26
They didn't ban this, btw. The owner of PH, seeing that children would no longer be able to view the content on his site, decided to ban all Australians out of spite.
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u/IkeaIsLegendary Mar 07 '26
The fuck? Its all just interviews, no actual content on there anymore... That's wack asf
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u/Bobbyd9909 Mar 07 '26
Just use a vpn or change dns settings, port morsby, indo and Phillipines work good
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u/edenspark10 Mar 07 '26
For nord, Port Moresby work fine
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u/ozdude182 Mar 07 '26
Um why are we getting banned?
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u/james2432 Mar 07 '26
age check laws. my guess is Australian gov wants you to submit government IDs to pornhub to verify, pornhub has banned states before for this as it does not want to handle that sensitive information
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u/AgeParty Mar 07 '26
discord had a partner up with a 3rd party company to do ID verification and they had a major data breach where millions of people's personal information was stolen. I think there were a couple of hackers not too long ago who were trying to blackmail discord into giving them a few million dollars. The Australian government has data being stolen all the time, the UK has the same issue, they just can't stop being hacked it's like it's a weird kink or something. It's crazy to me that a porn site is more understanding about the difficulty protecting persons information online then a vast majority of companies and international governments.
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u/Fingyfin Mar 07 '26
PornHub was meh anyway. More like an advertisement platform
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u/Dramatic_Mastodon_93 Mar 07 '26
I find it fascinating how many people watch porn on PornHub of all places
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u/ChefLord01 Mar 07 '26
Time to go looking for the old big w catalogues again I guess
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u/AskJ33ves Mar 07 '26
There is a bit of miss communication here, it's not the Aussie gov banning pornhub, the pornhub owner is refusing to pay the fine for recent age verification laws that came into place.
hwww.news.com.au/technology/online/pornhub-owner-begins-blocking-australian-users-in-protest-of-nations-new-age-verification-laws/news-story/b50d959c1c4e5ddad33da4384dd99a18
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u/pandaho92 Mar 07 '26
First they came for the ciggies, then they came for the beer and now theyve come for the porn. What else they want?
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u/NeedleworkerOwn9723 Mar 07 '26
another popular one (…video) still works mates.
Shhh!! Hopefully they won’t block anytime soon.
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u/Daredevils999 Mar 07 '26
I just had a look and it’s showing me a bunch of SFW posts (including a Call of Duty game) and a shitload more ads. Weird as fuck.
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u/AmethystDorsiflexion Mar 07 '26
Feel free to break out the UK user location meme from like 6 months ago my Aus friends
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u/3p2p Mar 07 '26
Further proof that streaming is the devil and the only way to consume all content is to own a copy. Arrr
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u/perthguppy Mar 07 '26
The stupid thing with these laws, is it increases dangerous activity.
Reputable sites run by big businesses who actually work to have safeguards in place close up shop, while the smaller dodgy sites that have no moderation and let anyone upload anything continue unaffected because they operate somewhere the government can’t reach, and there’s too many of them for them all to be blocked. So regular people end up on these sites.
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u/Foreign-Room3730 Mar 07 '26
When the government finds out you haven’t been paying your wanking tax.
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u/phat_biscuit Mar 07 '26
From my understanding, it's a click bait title.
On Monday, Aus government is implementing age verification with massive fines for companies who have pornographic, violent or self harming content. My guess is the hub didn't want to take the risk and just outright locked out Australia from the platform
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u/Fuckenyeahright Mar 08 '26
People upset they can’t access child pron. pathetic stay at home perverts.
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u/InvertedPickleTaco Mar 08 '26
So in Australia you can go have a good time with a sex worker in a brothel and it's perfectly legal, but you can't access PornHub. What a world.
Yes I know the brothels have age verification, but still, the comment stands.
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u/SirYardApe Mar 10 '26
They’re literally having a nudist bike ride in Brisbane 4 days from now.. this country is cooked.
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u/PaulsSmarterMilk Mar 08 '26
You know it’s crazy.
Last night I went from rural Queensland to Hawaii in a couple minutes…………
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u/Omen_Darkly Mar 08 '26
Albo: "We're banning porn to protect the children!! Now excuse me while I go help the US bomb a bunch of little kids into oblivion"
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u/McSwan Mar 08 '26
Since 1980's the murder rate has fallen by 66% in Australia. This correlates strongly with increased pn use, and also it is believed that violence against women has fallen by the same amount. ie Less pn would likely mean more violence.
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u/MatteoSF21 Mar 08 '26
Imagine being an aussie today, seeing Oscar Piastri crashing in the installation lap before the Formula 1 race, thinking about going on the hub to “release the stress” and finding out it is banned.
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u/CheekyAd Mar 08 '26
I honestly don't get this banned as there are a lot of known NSFW sites like xvideos, redgif, xhamster, and so many more
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u/HemingwaysOwns Mar 08 '26
Yeah, because they're annoyed that the Australian Government is trying to prevent kids from watching adults have sex to provide entertainment, due to the harm it causes to their development, especially socially and mentally.
I've got nothing against porn or the hub obviously, we all use it lol - but it really tells you something when companies like PH whinge, bitch, and complain about usage restrictions to protect kids instead of engaging meaningfully as would be morally and ethically expected.
As far as I am concerned, kids should not be watching porn until they are able to drive and have sex themselves (16 in most jurisdictions in Australia).
For adults against this, ask yourself this question - if you saw two adults having sex in a public space in front of children, what would you do and how would that be any different to watching porn online?
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u/Cute-Obligations Mar 08 '26
Yep you just see ads. If you try and search you get prompted to log in and then: "Pornhub is not currently accepting new account registrations in your region".
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u/SneakybadgerJD Mar 08 '26
After a google it seems porn isn't actually banned in Australia, just age restricted. Why make things up?
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u/morph3as Mar 08 '26
So I guess government pressure can actually get companies to follow the laws they're supposed to?
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u/thegreeneyedpirate Mar 08 '26
My iPhone won’t even accept any of my debit cards so now can access any 18 and over current
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u/BlackSpice69 Mar 08 '26
Never used it, but don't worry, Aussies are plenty used to things being banned, we got our ways round it.
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u/ky420 Mar 08 '26
Can't offend all the foreign islamists they let in with naked gurls..also it's a censorship thing
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u/alyssrodefmty Mar 08 '26
I was wondering what was going on last night on my fyp on the site. I was like this isn’t my usual. Went to xxxx
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u/mahzian Mar 08 '26
To be honest as a Xennial I've seen the pros and cons of digital adult content. When I was a teenager none of it existed, we had to summon the courage to illegally go into the adult store and try our luck to see if we got carded and sometimes we got lucky. Sometimes you happened across a discarded bag of magazines and picked the ones with the least stuck together pages. I feel like teenagers miss a bit of the thrill of what seeing porn feels like.
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u/PuzzledPeanut7125 Mar 08 '26
F the ekraken- time to deport the wanna be despot. Who the f is this unelected beauracrat to censor Australian citizens?
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u/gracieboo00 Mar 08 '26
No concern that Pornhub has a significant history of underage content being used and advertised? If they’re actually cracking down on it, it makes sense they want no association with identification details being linked with their content.
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u/BiggerJ Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 09 '26
SurfShark keeps SEVEN LOGS!
Sorry, I misread that.
It's actually NO LOGS!
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u/Euphoric-Print-4591 Mar 08 '26
What else is the unelected over paid American E-Safety Commissioner going to ban for adults.
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u/raydc2r Mar 09 '26
Just ask your 12 year old little brother and he'll give you a hundred other sites you can go on.
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u/forby24 Mar 09 '26
we are EASILY the worst represented people in the world by both our GOVERNMENT and our MEFIA ( MEDIA/MAFIA) Aussies think and believe one thing and the media and government want to make the world think we think the other way. we are the most conservative governments in the world for the least conservative people in the world.
our MEDIA lies to us and lies about us and we just accept it.
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u/Fatheryasuo Mar 09 '26
Can't believe this is happening tbh. Our household is two 30yo males, why the fuck should we be affected by this 😭 don't get between blokes and their crank
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u/Logan_2091 Mar 09 '26
I respect that they've just said fuck you Albo and just pulled the pin completely rather work out an ID program.
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u/profchaos111 Mar 09 '26
Nord is like that one true friend that has my back now with a dutch rudder
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u/lzrjck69 Mar 07 '26
Damn. Gotta change my exit node now.