Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in

Re:Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in by rich_sasha on Friday October 31, 2025 @05:23AM (#45769967)

Despite all this talk about privacy, US would appear to be leading the free world in surveillance and illiberalism right now. It is very reminiscent to me of the radical free speech of Twitter and Republicans, which in practice means censorship.

I'm not saying UK is great, but surely ahead of what the US is doing by a wide margin.

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Re:Pornhub says UK visitors down 77% since age checks came in by highwaylights on Friday October 31, 2025 @06:33AM (#45770453)

I sort of agree.

If you look at the UK through the MAGA lens you see that there’s a grain of truth in some of the comments about free speech.

Likewise terminology in the US is sometimes a little turned on its head - in the US “liberalism” means something completely different from actual liberalism (which would be closer to libertarianism).

Also “woke” has been used for so many things that its meaning has been warped from “don’t trust the system” to whatever the right dislikes on a given day, even though they’re ostensibly all about smaller government that stays out of your business.

Politics has always been very subversive but it’s more entangled than ever now.

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