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.””

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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.

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

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Reread the comment considering it’s taking the view point of a Republican in Texas who voted this law, it will make more sense.

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Let me make it clear folks, nobody has better morals than white people, believe me. They’re tremendous, the best. They follow the rules, they respect authority, they’re just fantastic. I mean, look at me, I’m the best example of great morals, and I’m white, folks. White people, they’re winners, they know how to do things right, they’re tremendous patriots. So let’s make America great again with the incredible morals of white people leading the way.

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This is pure evil! You’re, like, evil incarnate!

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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.

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

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I dont think so, Texas finally solved the problem with porn, now nobody can watch it and everyones life (and children) are finally safe.

/s

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Just use proton VPN, the free tier should be enough.

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His argument is that the average person won’t know any better and will just take the first sponsored result for “free VPN” of Google

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Shady American services are OK though.

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