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Tell HN: DuckDuckGo (ddg.gg) blocked in the UK by High Court(?)
Short form of DuckDuckGo site has been blocked in the UK, at least by EE and Virgin Media ISPs (two different sources).
"We have been ordered by the High Court to prevent access to this website as it operates unlawfully. This is a legal obligation that we must comply with. The Court has found that the site and its users infringe copyright material in the UK.
EE does not monitor customer's activities [sic] nor will we disclose personal details or any information about our customers to any third party unless legally compelled to do so."
- ronaldx 13y agoThis is the first time in my life where I have been genuinely disturbed by the location of an apostrophe.
- VierScar 13y agoI don't think the High Court realises the site is a search engine... not a new Pirate Bay.
- pipnpip 13y agoNo, it hasn't.
- VierScar 13y agoVery abrupt... are you on EE or Virgin Media? Do you live in the UK? Perhaps the OP can provide a screenshot as proof?
- mcintyre1994 13y agoTalktalk here, no block.
- devonbarrett 13y agoI guess that is what you get for not co-operating with GCHQ.
- joshu 13y agoThis happened to del.icio.us, too. It was on some list briefly, which blocked the site, and then removed from the list, but Virgin Media/NTL took years to remove it.
- Velox 13y agoI'm on Virgin and it has been blocked for me. duckduckgo.com still works as normal however.
- MattBearman 13y agoIm on BT in the UK and it's not blocked for me, I suspect this is a mistake that will be fixed (eventually). Of course it does raise the much more important issue of how easy it is for entire websites to be accidentally black listed. Luckily they don't seem to be smart enough to block the IPs, just one (of DDG's many) domain names.
- helen842000 13y agoI am using EE in the UK, can confirm ddg.gg is still resolving to duckduckgo.com
- ronaldx 13y agoProblem seems to be fixed here as well; thanks for the update :)
- dancryer 13y agoddg.gg still works for me on Virgin Media.
- ronaldx 13y agoUpdate for anyone following this: https://twitter.com/Guitaraholic/status/366945419751718913 https://twitter.com/Guitaraholic/status/366945419751718913
- michalu 13y agoI am on Virgin and it's not blocked.
- dajomu 13y agoSeems to be working fine for me on EE, a temporary error perhaps?