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The United Kingdom is colored Yellow, yet there is Internet censorship in the UK: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_United_Kingdom https
by gexcolo 12y ago
The United Kingdom is colored Yellow, yet there is Internet censorship in the UK:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Uni...
The description mentions the ISP-controlled, opt-in "filtering" plans, but not the state-mandated no-opt-out censorship of an indeterminate number of websites (the lists are not public)
- shawabawa3 12y agoThe state mandated no-opt-out censorship appears to still be the choice of the ISP. At home, using virginmedia I can't access the pirate bay. At work (unknown ISP), I can
- undefined0 12y agoIn the UK, they have censored filestube, took down filecrop and others. Why I mention this instead of TPB? Well, filestube, at the time of the censorship, didn't encourage copyright infringement, it litterly was just a search engine for file host links. The excuse they gave for censoring it was that they couldn't keep up with the takedown notices. Imagine if they applied that logic to Google.