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The vast majority of the Internet access provided by Wi-Fi systems in public places in the UK is filtered with many sites being blocked. The filtering is done voluntarily by the six largest providers of public Wi-Fi: Arqiva, BT, Sky, Nomad Digital, Virgin and O2, who together are responsible for 90% public Wi-Fi. [ 74 ]
The advent of the Internet access has made the act of censorship more difficult, and there has been a relaxation of censorship in recognition of this. BBFC guidelines have been relaxed further to allow the limited distribution of hardcore pornography under an R18 certificate , partially because of this, and partially because of a recognition ...
A June 2011 draft executive order implementing Article 18 [116] of the Law for Trust in the Digital Economy (LCEN) would give several French government ministries [117] the power to restrict online content “in case of violation, or where there is a serious risk of violation, of the maintenance of public order, the protection of minors, the ...
Internet police is a generic term for police and government agencies, departments and other organizations in charge of policing the Internet in a number of countries. [1] The major purposes of Internet police, depending on the state, are fighting cybercrime , as well as censorship and propaganda .
Anti-censorship supporters created clones of the site such as Immun.es [23] (which closed down shortly after launching) and routingpacketsisnotacrime.uk [40] to resurrect the service. By August 2015 the immunicity domain was back under the control of anti-censorship activists and displays a website inviting people to use Tor and other anonymity ...
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.
Russell Brand, who currently faces multiple sexual assault allegations, urged his supporters to follow him on a different social media platform after he was censored by others. “By now, you’re ...
The December 2013 report of the Prime Minister's Extremism Taskforce [2] said that it would "work with internet companies to restrict access to terrorist material online which is hosted overseas but illegal under UK law" and "work with the internet industry to help them in their continuing efforts to identify extremist content to include in family-friendly filters" which would likely involve ...