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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.
In February 2008, the Ministry of Information and Culture ordered ISPs to block 20 torrent sites, including The Pirate Bay, with the aim of blocking all torrent sites. ISP United Networks notified "The Ministry of information has today sent us a letter announcing they will be blocking all Torrent sites. This is due to piracy laws of the State ...
Religious sites were blocked by nearly half of public Wi-Fi filters and sex education sites were blocked by one third. [141] In November 2013, there were complaints about the blocking of Gay websites that were not related to sex or nudity on the public Wi-Fi provided by train operating companies. The filtering was done by third party ...
In November 2011 a site selling diet pills, 24hdiet.com, was blocked by Danish ISPs, the first use of a new law on the blocking of foreign websites that sell drugs. [ 89 ] In August 2012 Google removed ads from ticket website Viagogo after an investigation found that the site was violating Danish law by overcharging and manipulating tickets ...
This material is not actually hosted by Google, but by sites locatable through the use of Google's services. [15] April 2012 saw the UK high court order five leading UK ISPs to block access to Swedish file sharing website The Pirate Bay. [16]
This also highlights the fact (as I contextualised), that the sites are not 'blocked' in the UK, domains, ips and dns records are redirected at 96.5% of the UK ISPs. Therefore this page is inherently misnamed in any case - proxies, technical solutions and levels of 'blocking' are inherantly a part of the discussion
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In April 2007, a rumour was confirmed on the Swedish talk show Bert that The Pirate Bay had received financial support from right-wing entrepreneur Carl Lundström. This caused some consternation since Lundström, an heir to the Wasabröd fortune, is known for financing several far-right political parties and movements like Sverigedemokraterna and Bevara Sverige Svenskt (Keep Sweden Swedish).