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As part of UK sanctions against Russia, ISPs are required to take "reasonable steps to prevent" users accessing "an internet service provided by" a person or organisation sanctioned by the UK government. This effectively means blocking websites operated by such organisations. Organisations sanctioned are currently TV Novosti and Rossiya Segodnya.
Legitimate sites are regularly blocked by the filters of some UK ISPs and mobile operators. [40] In December 2013 the UK Council for Child Internet Safety met with ISPs, charities, representatives from government, the BBFC and mobile phone operators to seek ways to reduce the blocking of educational advice for young people. In January 2014 ...
In 2011 the group set up blocked.org.uk, a website allowing the reporting of sites and services that are 'blocked' on their mobile network. [113] [114] The website received hundreds of reports [115] of the blocking of sites covering blogs, business, internet privacy and internet forums across multiple networks.
The UK openly blocks child pornography websites, for which ONI does not test. [99] 98.6% of UK internet traffic consume a service called the child abuse image content list which uses data provided by the Internet Watch Foundation to identify pages judged to contain indecent photographs of children.
Internet censorship in Romania is mainly related to the filtering of sites with pornographic content hosted in Romania [202] and the protection of children. [203] Although proposals have been made to censor pornographic sites, so far [needs update] no sites have been blocked with the exception of a few unlicensed casino-like websites. [citation ...
Under the Online Safety Act, Ofcom has the power to fine firms up to £18m or 10 per cent of their qualifying global turnover, and in very serious cases can apply for sites to be blocked in the UK.
Detailed country by country information on Internet censorship and surveillance is provided in the Freedom on the Net reports from Freedom House, by the OpenNet Initiative, by Reporters Without Borders, and in the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices from the U.S. State Department Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.
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