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The UK has a markedly different tradition of pornography regulation from that found in other Western countries. It was almost the only liberal democracy not to have legalised hardcore pornography during the 1960s and 1970s. Pre-existing laws, such as the Obscene Publications Act 1959, continued to make its sale illegal through the 1980s and ...
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.
A display of formerly banned books at a US library. Banned books are books or other printed works such as essays or plays which have been prohibited by law, or to which free access has been restricted by other means. The practice of banning books is a form of censorship, from political, legal, religious, moral, or commercial motives. This ...
Z-Library and its activities are illegal in many jurisdictions. While website seizures reduced the accessibility of the content, [ 17 ] it remains available on the dark web . [ 18 ] The legal status of the project, as well as its potential impact on the publishing industry and authors' rights, is a matter of ongoing debate.
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.
Banned Books Museum; Book burning; List of book-burning incidents; Nazi book burnings; Burning of books and burying of scholars; Areopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc'd Printing, to the Parlament of England; Index Librorum Prohibitorum; List of most commonly challenged books in the United States
When we want new music, there's a strong temptation to get it for free through file sharing, ripping it from our friends, or downloading it illegally. So perhaps it shouldn't surprise us that four ...
A list of domain names affected by court orders is maintained on the website ukispcourtorders.co.uk by BT plc, [7] [8] a similar list is hosted by Sky. [ 9 ] As a result of this pressure, the five main ISPs ( BT , Virgin Media , Sky , TalkTalk , EE ) became responsible for the notification of users identified by the BPI.