Searches for VPNs spike in Texas after Pornhub pulls out of the state
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 Pornhub’s website are now presented with a full-page message calling the Texas law “ineffective, haphazard, and dangerous.”
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“The apparent spike in VPN searches in Texas shows that these types of age verification laws aren’t just unconstitutional, they’re also silly and ineffective,” Greer said. “Just like millions of people in countries like China, Russia and Turkey evade their government’s draconian online censorship regimes using simple tools like VPNs, now we see Texans doing the same to get around their own state government’s invasive rules.”
I wish I had the hacking skills to steal and publish the browser history of the Texas state legislature and the top of the executive branch.
They'd probably be ridiculously easy to phish if you could get a non-government email address for them.
You don't even need hacking skills, just money. Remember John Oliver buying the website traffic for Capitol Hill a couple of years ago?
Sadly, I also lack money.
Vote red, get blue balls.
Yooo make one of those Obama-era campaign posters to show the cunts
Pornhub has a strong pull out game
Contrary to popular belief
And Texans are in the process of figuring out prophylactic protection.
Porn! Is there anything it can't do?
Porn wins elections, the blue need to quickly get some ads running in Texas saying they won't ban porn.
I would guess that the majority in Texas favors the age restrictions, else the law probably wouldn't have passed.
Bless your heart ❤️
More proof pulling out doesn't work.
Surfshark lobbying really paying off.
Tell me about a state that's gonna vote the bejisus out of the bills bringing back pornhub without telling me
"Google searches" it seems these people will be playing catch up for years to come 💦
Good luck Texas, you gaggle of fucking idiots. I hope you grow a pair of balls or secede but for the love of fuck just get your shit together