BT Blocking Pirate Bay; Claims It's Part Of A Voluntary Self-Regulation Code
from the say-what-now? dept
Slashdot points us to the news that BT is blocking its mobile broadband subscribers from accessing The Pirate Bay, claiming that it's a self-regulation effort in order to remain in "compliance with a new UK voluntary code." It appears to have something to do with the already controversial self-censorship program being managed by the Internet Watch Foundation, which has already blocked access to parts of Wikipedia and the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. At what point do people realize that any such demand to "block" certain types of content will overblock and harm perfectly legitimate sites and technologies?Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Filed Under: broadband, filters, mobile broadband, self-regulation, uk
Companies: bt, the pirate bay
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And to answer this question "At what point do people realize that any such demand to "block" certain types of content will overblock and harm perfectly legitimate sites and technologies?"
- We all know that's a trick question. The day people in charge realize they need to give themselves less control is the day the sky falls and hell freezes over.
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It's their phorm
Having said that, TPB is still accessible thru my BT broadband.
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Not the IWF
I smell a lot of deliberate misdirection by the ISPs on this story.
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Bt blocking websites
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