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Russia Bans Pornhub, YouPorn - Tells Citizens To Meet Someone In Real Life (arstechnica.com)
Russia has blocked two of the biggest porn websites. The Russian state watchdog Roskomnadzor, which oversees internet in the country, announced that it was blockeing Pornhub and YouPorn. When a Russian citizen asked on Twitter about an alternative, it replied; "as an alternative you can meet someone in real life,". From a report: The regulator dropped the banhammer on Tuesday, applying rules which had previously been imposed by two separate regional courts. Any Russian citizen visiting PornHub or YouPorn is now redirected to a simple message telling them that the sites have been blocked "by decision of public authorities." Sexually explicit material isn't illegal in the country, but according to the BBC's Vitaliy Shevchenko, the law confusingly appears to ban "the illegal production, dissemination, and advertisement of pornographic materials and objects."
Good thing for those Russian officials that PornHub was the only naughty picture site on the entire internet....
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
I dunno man, herpes seems a lot sadder than a lonely fap every now and again ...
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Russian State Watchdog to Citizens: "We invented vodka for a reason. Go outside and get laid!"
Well then what the fuck are you doing here?
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
My first program:
Hell Segmentation fault
Pandora's box can't be closed.
That's it. She is also banned.
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
"Just go out and meet someone"
First of all, I have a strong suspicion that "just going out and meeting someone" would be considered a far worse option by my wife than porn watching, just sayin'.
Second, even if I were single, there's no equivalence there. If I go out and meet someone... and by meet someone I mean find someone attractive and stare at them while publicly masturbating, as one might hypothetically do with porn, that's going to be A) probably unsatisfying for me B) almost certainly more than a little bit awkward for them, and C) illegal in most places.
Meeting people and romance and love and actual sex and all that fun stuff is great, but that's not what porn is about. It's like saying "I'm hungry, and you've taken away all the food." "Well, why don't you go out and buy a jacket?" Sure clothing and food fall in the same general category of "necessities", but that doesn't make them interchangeable.
Pound! Bang! Bin! Bash! is this a shell script or a Batman comic?
Pandora's box can't be closed.
Slut.
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.