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    Sure, people just stopped watching porn. 🙄

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      Where did they see a sudden massive increase is the question

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            I think his intention was that from the UK’s perspective, there would be a massive increase in VPN traffic that they can’t determine the content of. The endpoints of that traffic would be varied and basically irrelevant.

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              But if people are using a VPN you would see the same amount of traffic still… and you can track that… why i said what I said… because it would be interesting so see where people would be choosing to view those websites instead…

              Because people didn’t stop like the headline would like you to believe

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                They say Pornhub’s and Xvideo’s traffic was down 50% after the law change. I doubt 50% of their traffic comes from UK so those must be the number of UK viewers - not total traffic. If half of the porn users in UK switched to VPNs then you’d see UK traffic go down but increase in some other region.

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                why would they track traffic from another country watching porn though?

                and also these laws only effect porn sites that respect the law. so you have banned an outlet for a societal human need? history shows that you push normal people into illegality. such as speak easies.

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        The people that saw - didn’t. Ne c’est pas?

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    its a funny way to describe “moving to other places of acquisition, that don’t report their traffic”

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    …and what’s the polling for the Labour UK Government now?