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No more Pornhub? That will depend on what happens with a Senate bill (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 7 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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No more Pornhub? That will depend on what happens with a Senate bill::A Senate bill might cause the owners of Pornhub to block access to the site in Canada, its owners say.

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[–] Weslee@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I gotta wonder if these people know that these kinds of laws will do nothing, and they are just pandering, or if they actually think this time they got it

[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think they all just fundamentally don't understand how the Internet works and how it doesn't care about borders.

They approach it like companies are providing services to users directly like you just walked into a store and they're in full control of everything. Like companies are explicitly entering all the markets worldwide by being available on the Internet and providing their services to users. Obviously if you provide services to Canadian users you must be a company with a presence on Canadian soils.

Except you can't exactly put customs on the Internet like you can block sketchy imports from China when they arrive at the border. It literally crosses the border at the speed of light.

[–] aelwero@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm reasonably certain that once enough governments jump on the "we need to control the internets" bandwagon, there will be a region specific convention adopted similar to country codes for phone numbers so that they can, in fact, apply customs to it...

I suspect it won't be in the name of righteousness though, more likely it'll be taxes, copyright, etc, on internet sales that trigger it.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Don’t IP addresses already provide you with region info?