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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Governments do not understand that these type of restrictions do absolutely nothing. There are always ways to circumvent these restrictions.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

It's not really about doing anything. It's about playing to the base. It's more politically advantageous to tell you string Christian base that you're banning porn, instead of educating them in why bans don't work, or could be harmful

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Who benefits from this weird attempt at blocking porn?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Big VPN now flexing their marketing prowess. /s

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only thing I can think of is pandering to hyper-religious people to frame the other party as perverts and avoid talking about real problems?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Fixing issues often costs money, banning things is pretty much free (enforcement can cost, but not all bans are enforced well). So for conservatives it‘s a low hanging fruit to look for some thing their voters dislike and ban, also makes them seem more "fiscally responsible" cause they don‘t have to spend money to help anyone, just ban some things and tada, they are doing something and their voters are happy (I guess?).

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Land of the free 🦅🇺🇸

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

And the home of the wanker!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a boob on the state flag.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The state motto itself is about sex. What do they think lovers are?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Va is for lovers, not masturbators.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Who doesn’t use a VPN already?