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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.
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.
While it is not against the law to own an Amazon firestick which has been tampered with to give access to any streamer of choice, it is illegal to use it to stream paywalled content for free.
Legitimate sites are regularly blocked by the filters of some UK ISPs and mobile operators. [77] 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 2021, in the first conviction of its type in the UK, a man who created and built a software package which enabled illegal access to BT Sport, Sky, Netflix and other subscription television content via apps and add-ons for the Kodi media player was sentenced to two and a half years’ imprisonment. Supported by BT Sport and Greater Manchester ...
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.
The Obscene Publications Act, which is still in force, makes it illegal for websites that can be accessed from the UK without age restriction to contain certain types of adult content, [72] but few pornographic websites query the viewer's age and hardly any attempt to verify the answer given.