French Porn Block Fails on Site URL Detail (techcrunch.com) 29
A Paris court order to block porn website xHamster in France over insufficient age verification has resulted in an unintended loophole. The ruling only restricted "fr[dot]xhamster[dot]com" subdomain following nonprofits' complaint, leaving the main site accessible despite the DNS-level block by internet providers.
Ineffectual (Score:4, Insightful)
Not that a DNS block does much anyway.
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Re:Ineffectual (Score:4, Informative)
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My experience with Ontario schools is that they are very, very bad at IT.
Though (thankfully), I've never found any porn on their networks, and I've had to do content reviews a few times.
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Hang in there. They're scheduled to migrate from Netware 4.11 in 2028.
.... to IntranetWare [novell.com]
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I migrated a few off Novell in the lead up to Y2K, which in my opinion was already far too late.
What I see today is typically a threadbare, mismanaged Microsoft environment with remote access outsourced to Google. This actually really pisses me off, since one IT guy could set something up for an entire district that ran 99% on free tools. Schools aren't doing anything that requires paying Microsoft or selling out the kids to Google.
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Indeed. Even kids know how to get around it. And there are probably a lot of horny teens with Tor-Browsers installed anyways.
The whole thing is bogus. If this were a real problem, we would have long since seen the effects. We do not. Hence just the usual pearl-clutching by the usual prudes and censorship fans.
Seriously? (Score:1)
The ruling only restricted "fr[dot]xhamster[dot]com" subdomain
Slashdot, you don't have to obscure the domain name for us. Seriously, if you were worried it would come out as a clickable link and outrage someone's sensibilities then you could have just asked one of us how to keep it plain text.
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Apparently it's just a bunch of Wrecking Ball r34.
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I'm really tempted to click in just to see what it is they want to block.
It's a generic porn site.
It has photos and videos of nekkid chicks.
It would've taken you about five seconds to see for yourself.
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It's a generic porn site.
It's a porn "tube" site, which there actually aren't too many of those left anymore. I'd assume that if the market was there, companies would step up to fill the void, but I think most of the amateur adult entertainers have moved on to live cam streaming sites and hawking their OnlyFans pages on Reddit's porn subs.
Also, they have gay porn too, so it's not just naked women. Granted, the majority the non-paid gay porn seems to be in glorious 240p, so it's not exactly all that titillating. It's like anythin
Streisand effect (Score:2)
I expect this ruling (and /.) will boost traffic to that site significantly.
Well done.
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I expect this ruling (and /.) will boost traffic to that site significantly.
Nah, I had a quick look but it's lame. No Goatse. No ASCII nudes. No hot grits. Never going to catch on with the refined tastes of the /. crowd.
Re:Streisand effect (Score:4, Interesting)
Actually, I'm fond of saying that your site has to follow the rules of the country where the servers are plugged in, and the rest of the world can pull a Great Firewall of China if they don't like it. Which kind of seems like is what happened here, except in a somewhat ineptly implemented manner.
I also didn't have "the French ban a porn site" on my bingo card. That's totally going to age that joke in Home Alone when Kevin's horny older brother assumes that French girls walk around nude beaches with unshaven armpits (but unfortunately, not in the winter).
Xhamster? (Score:4, Funny)
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No duct-tape either.
Ah... who remembers the glorious days of usenet eh?
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Dumbass. They're X hamsters. Obviously they've transitioned.
Re:Xhamster? (Score:4, Funny)
Dumbass. They're X hamsters. Obviously they've transitioned.
Wait, you mean this doesn't show a continuous loop video of a hamster running on a wheel in an X11 window? Totally misleading.
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Well... Not quite the same thing, but I'm currently experiencing Hamsterdance flashbacks after reading your post.
That bloody song is going to be in my head all day now.
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Dumbass. They're X hamsters. Obviously they've transitioned.
The hamster is pining for the fjords!
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A mathematician solves: no hamsters on xhamster means x=0
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They don't want to violate the rights of the original hamstersite - https://realhamster.com/ [realhamster.com]
(and yes, it is sort of a parody site of another website selling "real dolls")
Age verification is troublesome (Score:2)
There is no way to do it anonymously. It will result in more data collection and erosion of privacy.
Kids are smart and always find workarounds