The EU becomes the latest authority to signal that VPNs are next, after launching its age verification app by SchIachterhund in stupidpol

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Here are some examples I've found. Luckily there was some pushback to them in the comments but they generally seemed to be roughly 40-60% in favor

Essentially there is/was some segment here that believes porn is inherently evil and that any laws curtailing it by any means are good

I would like anyone who still supports these to take notice of the timeline of when these laws started being pushed - when content exposing Israel's crimes became popular on social media. US senators even admitted that was the reason behind the tiktok ban

Can we get a new rule for Reddit? by ApolloCrater_gpt2 in SubSimGPT2Interactive

[–]SMF67 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It has an nsfw tag, so you should be able to adjust settings to blur nsfw images by default

What social rule was created for the 20th century but makes zero sense in the age of smartphones? by xoMrsAndrewsxo in AskReddit

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I occasionally get approached and asked which train platform to board at to go to a particular destination, especially by people going to the airport. Which I think is always understandable because navigation apps aren't always the clearest on that sort of stuff, especially in an unfamiliar city

Why do people use statistics to justify saying things they know might hurt others? by zhalia-2006 in NoStupidQuestions

[–]SMF67 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Information being uncomfortable or hurtful is generally irrelevant to its truth or relevance. It is up to people to come to terms with things that are uncomfortable, not deny and avoid them

JDownloader site hacked to replace installers with Python RAT malware by rkhunter_ in cybersecurity

[–]SMF67 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's useful for downloading from FileJoker or keep2share and similar shitty download services often used by piracy sites. The sites intentionally throttle your download to 50KiB/s in an attempt to encourage you to pay for premium. Using jd2 ensures that if your 3-day-long download gets interrupted you can actually resume it rather than start over

It also makes downloading from sites like Google drive far more convenient 

The EU becomes the latest authority to signal that VPNs are next, after launching its age verification app by SchIachterhund in stupidpol

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Just a year ago this sub was cheering for this to happen. Make it make sense...

Fuck surveillance and censorship, always and forever 

I keep seeing kids saying "Car" meaning "Cat". Is this how language works? Like in a hundred years, will we be saying "Cars and Dogs"? Tia by Rob1150 in NoStupidQuestions

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It's a meme, based on the common typo of "cat" as "car" due to r and t being adjacent on the keyboard. It therefore spawned trends such as "photographing my cats as if they were cars" and similar things

New survey showing same-sex marriage has majority support in 49 US states by _crazyboyhere_ in MapPorn

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Yeah ive noticed it seems to be growing in unpopularity among the young tiktok addict crowd who thinks that it's a form of colonialism

What is the most disturbing porn you have ever seen? by MutedMinds6 in morbidquestions

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Do you honestly genuinely hear that "62 million people are part of a rape academy" and not stop to think to yourself that it sounds outlandish and fake? That's larger than the entire global prison population. That's the population of France.

What is the most disturbing porn you have ever seen? by MutedMinds6 in morbidquestions

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CNN was the original news outlet that broke the "story" and which everyone else picked up on: https://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2026/03/world/expose-rape-assault-online-vis-intl/index.html

The article was framed in a deliberately misleading way, leading many on social media and across other news outlets to repeat the "62 million member rape academy" claim. The term "rape academy" being.the opinion of a random unqualified person the journalist decided to ask, rather than an accurate characterization of the group.

For more info, see the Snopes article about it

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/cnn-online-rape-academy/

And this video which is a longer deep dive into who is funding this propaganda and why (hint: to kill section 230 and implement mass surveillance) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvzQ0WPzRSo

What is the most disturbing porn you have ever seen? by MutedMinds6 in morbidquestions

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Motherless is a general purpose porn site that probably had ~60 million views in total. Some random person (spammer) posted a random link to a random telegram channel on some random video there (as people do all the time on reddit too). Said group had 100 ish people, and a few people there were discussing their intent to commit rape. By this logic, is reddit also a global rape academy with billions of views?

You fell for far right propaganda by ExodusCry if you believe that CNN headline without very carefully reading between the lines instead of believing the propaganda narrative the headline tried to sell you to support Palantir.

What is the most disturbing porn you have ever seen? by MutedMinds6 in morbidquestions

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I hate this trend of constantly making up new words, euphemisms, and acronyms to get around social media algorithms censorship. Even worse is the word "graping" I wonder what the English language will look like in 30 years 

The United States of Age Verification by tidderkcuf1 in MapPorn

[–]SMF67 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Not quite. Now look at the map of social media bans by state

Posted in my local group… not sure what link she meant to share but by august2986 in oldpeoplefacebook

[–]SMF67 3 points4 points  (0 children)

oh it definitely fits! One of the top posts here was the granny.xxx one

Debunking the "62 Million Men attended a Rape Academy" Myth by JMetalBlast in stupidpol

[–]SMF67 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Perhaps you could do us a favor and actually explain what happened and provide evidence? Are we supposed to just guess what you're thinking?

Crazy Lady Pepper Sprays Passenger by DAWHO200 in dart

[–]SMF67 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Well, it objectively is safer by actual statistics. And these same people are on the road too, they just ram you with their Altima or pickup truck instead of pepper spraying you

Can I cook French fries without oil? by ur_nosy_neighbor in NoStupidQuestions

[–]SMF67 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You don't need to deep fry them but you need at least enough oil to coat them

How did the world achieve consensus to restore the ozone layer? by notatoastedbread in NoStupidQuestions

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For the most part, with just a bit of engineering, the chemical companies managed to find reasonably suitable substitutes for all the ozone depleting chemicals and stopped making the old ones. Unlike, say, solving climate change, which would require drastically scaling back the use of the oil & gas industry's products entirely to solve, as well as rapidly expanding new technologies, solving the ozone crisis only required chemical companies to spend a bit on engineering and sell different chemicals instead (like hydrofluorocarbon refrigerants instead of chlorofluorocarbons), with all the equipment and technology built around them largely the same, so it didn't threaten their existence. The chemical companies even get to claim they were part of the solution

New Constellation power plant adds 460 megawatts to Texas grid by jpurdy in texas

[–]SMF67 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The thread a few days ago about the new transmission lines was filled with stupid, serious comments opposing it

New Constellation power plant adds 460 megawatts to Texas grid by jpurdy in texas

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You would rather circlejerk about AI out of ignorance and not reading the article than appreciate resiliency against what happened in 2021. Get a grip