Pirate Bay blocked in Britain, vows to fight

kriegspeil:

kriegspeil:

So. British government is actively censoring its citizens. Nice. cool. lovely.

more about it:

British web providers begin blocking Pirate Bay

Pirate Bay hits out over High Court blocking order‎

Is the UK’s Love Affair With the Internet at Risk?

‎UK Forces ISPs to Block The Pirate Bay

I’ll keep reblogging this. because people need to know. the British government is censoring its citizens. and I’ve heard/seen almost NOTHING about it!

I suspect it’s one of those things that we hear about in the UK….but the rest of the world doesn’t get it so much. 

Hilariously though:

The Pirate Bay gets extra 12m visitors per day after High Court ban

A judge this week ordered British internet providers such as Sky, O2 and TalkTalk to block access to the site.

But the ruling may backfire as millions more internet users are using the site for information about downloading films, music and TV shows following the huge publicity surrounding the case.

It may mean millions more internet users are finding out how to download film, music and TV shows for free.

1 year ago · 548 notes · Source · Reblogged from fourthseasonsoldier

Think of all the spam people get,” Mr Davies added. “We delete it, but under the new rules would we be allowed to?
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BBC News - Analysis: Will the government’s web ‘snoop’ plans work?

Not just spam though, surely there’s the potential for enormous amounts of email to be generated and sent that looks like criminal/terrorist activity, but is actually just a big fat prank. Something like that would potentially make the powers that the Government and GCHQ etc already have to investigate people’s email/calls/net history completely and utterly worthless with the number of false positives?

1 year ago · 0 notes · Source

The government will be able to monitor the calls, emails, texts and website visits of everyone in the UK under new legislation set to be announced soon.
—  BBC News - Email and web use ‘to be monitored’ under new laws
So, of course, the government announces this yesterday.

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