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Pornhub Will Show Its 75 Million Daily Visitors Why Net Neutrality Matters
Posted on 6/15/17 at 12:09 am
Posted on 6/15/17 at 12:09 am
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"Hell hath no fury like the internet scorned," Evan Greer, campaign director of advocacy group Fight for the Future, told Motherboard in April. We should all shudder to think of the potential fury from an internet cut off from access to porn.
Pornhub announced today that on July 12, the adult entertainment website plans to join a protest organized by Fight for the Future, freepress, and Demand Progress against the latest threat to a free and open internet. The protest "Day of Action" lands five days before the first deadline for comments on the FCC's proposal to roll back net neutrality protections.
The proposal is part of FCC chief and former Verizon executive Ajit Pai's attack on net neutrality, and would make it easier for internet service providers to get out from under the FCC's legal limits. Specifically, it would remove the classification of broadband as a telecommunications service, a ruling made in 2015 to ensure stronger protections for an open internet.
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If net neutrality hadn't existed 10 years ago, Pornhub's fate would have been in the hands of cable and wireless companies, Corey Price, VP at Pornhub told me over email. "Without it, the cable and wireless companies that control Internet access will have unfair power to pick winners and losers in the market." Companies like Verizon, Comcast and AT&T would be free to enact their own "slow lanes" and force people to pay more for certain sites.
Pornhub joins one of more than 60 companies participating in the protest, including Amazon, Github, Kickstarter, Reddit, and Imgur. The "Day of Action" will be similar to the SOPA blackout protest in 2012 or the slowdown day in 2014, with messaging or interference that urges visitors to these sites to take action. Pornhub's among the top 20 most visited sites in the US (Amazon.com and Reddit are both in the top five), and according to Pornhub's own reporting, the site draws 75 million visitors per day—plenty of eyes that otherwise might not be aware of the net neutrality battle.
Price said that Pornhub hasn't settled on specifics of the protest messaging, but is considering incorporating a loading icon to emphasize how it could make some sites much slower. Start practicing calming breaths for when you have to hold your patience on protest day.
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Posted on 6/15/17 at 12:10 am to CCTider
I'll use spankbank that day.
Posted on 6/15/17 at 12:14 am to CCTider
The ones leading the charge for net neutrality probably shouldn't be people who have a website that is built off of hosting stolen porn they had no part in creating.
This post was edited on 6/15/17 at 12:15 am
Posted on 6/15/17 at 12:16 am to Dr RC
I cancelled my Netflix subscription because if the comments their CEO made admit net neutrality.
And while a porn site isn't my first choice to lead the charge. At least it'll get a lot of attention.
And while a porn site isn't my first choice to lead the charge. At least it'll get a lot of attention.
Posted on 6/15/17 at 12:27 am to CCTider
It is unreal. If It passed during Obama administration then they want it reversed. This one is just idiotic.
Posted on 6/15/17 at 12:30 am to TutHillTiger
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It is unreal. If It passed during Obama administration then they want it reversed. This one is just idiotic.
Yep. I'm fairly liberal. But I didn't like a lot of things he did. This is one thing that Obama did that was great.
Though it boils down to the head of the FCC, being a former Verizon lawyer. Telecoms are balls deep in that goofy Indian bastard.
Posted on 6/15/17 at 12:30 am to CCTider
Stopped using porn hub years ago and switched to xvideos and have been jacking my cock virus free for the last several years 
Posted on 6/15/17 at 5:21 am to Rize
PH can whine all it wants, but someone else will just take its place. Seems PH should be trying to get along rather than protest. If you can't beat them, join them PH.
(Pun intended)
(Pun intended)
Posted on 6/15/17 at 5:57 am to CCTider
Dang it that's my birthday!!!
Posted on 6/15/17 at 5:59 am to tigerinthebueche
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PH can whine all it wants, but someone else will just take its place. Seems PH should be trying to get along rather than protest. If you can't beat them, join them PH. (Pun intended)
This is pretty a important thing to take a stand on. It is needed. frick that Verizon shill.
Posted on 6/15/17 at 6:21 am to CCTider
Net Neutrality is probably the biggest issue in this country that the general public doesn't understand.
Imagine if the government allowed certain car brands to purchase lanes on the interstate. I.E. If you drive a Ford you can go 80 mph but if you drive a Toyota you can only go 20 mph.
Would anyone buy Toyotas?
And if all new cars could only go 15 would new competition ever emerge?
Or if sedans could go 80 but SUVs could only go 15 it would effectively kill SUVs.
Similarly, if Cox and AT&T allows only their own branded streaming to be high speed and they throttled Netflix and Hulu to unwatchable slow loading they would kill those sites.
And when to have content companies like time Warner buying distribution companies like Verizon you could have them throttle the channels you watch to promote their own content.
You cannot allow net neutrality dissappear.
Imagine if the government allowed certain car brands to purchase lanes on the interstate. I.E. If you drive a Ford you can go 80 mph but if you drive a Toyota you can only go 20 mph.
Would anyone buy Toyotas?
And if all new cars could only go 15 would new competition ever emerge?
Or if sedans could go 80 but SUVs could only go 15 it would effectively kill SUVs.
Similarly, if Cox and AT&T allows only their own branded streaming to be high speed and they throttled Netflix and Hulu to unwatchable slow loading they would kill those sites.
And when to have content companies like time Warner buying distribution companies like Verizon you could have them throttle the channels you watch to promote their own content.
You cannot allow net neutrality dissappear.
This post was edited on 6/15/17 at 6:33 am
Posted on 6/15/17 at 6:28 am to Breesus
Well said! 
Posted on 6/15/17 at 6:29 am to tigerinthebueche
I've already seen every video on porn hub anyway
Posted on 6/15/17 at 6:39 am to LG2BAMA
quote:Without me definitively knowing every category of video on there, I sure wouldn't publicly make this claim.
I've already seen every video on porn hub anyway
There's some fairly reprehensible stuff there.
Into geriatric fatty gay dwarf group bondage pron?
Probably there.
Posted on 6/15/17 at 6:42 am to CCTider
To me, this is by far the biggest misstep of the Trump admin. Screw Muh Russians, Collusion, and Travel Bans.
They are about to let corporate telecoms frick with our internet, when they know the populace overwhelmingly disapproves of it. This isn't capitalism. It's flat out ignorance.
They are about to let corporate telecoms frick with our internet, when they know the populace overwhelmingly disapproves of it. This isn't capitalism. It's flat out ignorance.
Posted on 6/15/17 at 6:59 am to FalseProphet
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To me, this is by far the biggest misstep of the Trump admin.
Rolling back Net Neutrality and reigniting the war on drugs.
frick Washington DC
Posted on 6/15/17 at 7:05 am to Breesus
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Imagine if the government allowed certain car brands to purchase lanes on the interstate. I.E. If you drive a Ford you can go 80 mph but if you drive a Toyota you can only go 20 mph.
Imagine if you had 2+ people in your vehicle, or a toll tag, you could jet right along in your own traffic-free lane
Oh wait . . . .
Dumbass
Posted on 6/15/17 at 7:09 am to RobbBobb
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Oh wait . . . .
Dumbass
His analogy is 100% correct. Dumbass.
Net Neutrality is the one thing I agreed with Obama on. The reason the internet is the awesome thing it is today is because of the openness of it.
This post was edited on 6/15/17 at 7:11 am
Posted on 6/15/17 at 7:10 am to Breesus
I personally am not worried about it, net neutrality is a business decision that will force competition. It may make some things a pita for a year or whatever, but someone will offer net neutrality while others don't. They will let their customers decide.
It's ludicrous to think that people would not pay extra for net neutrality over being throttled.
Frankly, I'm not a fan of the government being involved in this at all. Let the free market work itself out.
It's ludicrous to think that people would not pay extra for net neutrality over being throttled.
Frankly, I'm not a fan of the government being involved in this at all. Let the free market work itself out.
This post was edited on 6/15/17 at 7:11 am
Posted on 6/15/17 at 7:11 am to CCTider
Companies not being "net neutral" will only lead to more people getting into the VPN game. It'll just be a cat and mouse thing.
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