[snek_case]

> it's just making it harder for honest people to pay for what they like.

I have a female friend who creates that kind of content. Her take is that this is very much intentional. There is a general crackdown on porn in the US. They're not just trying to make it difficult for the clients, but also difficult for people to make this kind of content, distribute it and get paid for it.

Of course none of this makes sense. There are VPNs and there is bittorrent. All of this is just making this kind of stuff more underground. In China porn is fully illegal, but people still share bootleg porn on thumb drives.

[chirsz]

In China, people generally share porn through closed social network groups.

[conradfr]

Given what we know about China's internet, is there any real privacy in those groups if authorities wanted to crack down on them?

[AngryData]

Well the sheer volume and high percetages of users that do it make it difficult. Despite what people try to pretend the Chinese government can't arbitrarily decree things without pushback and political fallout for it. You can't arrest all offenders if it means holding tens of millions people in detention. And trying to ban porn completely is going to piss off a massive percentage of their population, even if they don't say it directly.

[allthetime]

encryption exists. so to an extent, yes there is privacy, but in the end, people are always the weak link.