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As someone from the UK I’ve never seen anything blocked on my home Internet (except actual scam sites but you can turn that off, and yes that’s from my ISP and not the browser)

My mobile data does incorrectly flag some things as 18+ though

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Are you required to provide doxxing personal information proving your age on these sites or can you browse anonymously?

Only on my mobile data. They’re not actually 18+ sites though, for example someone’s blog that was posted here is blocked and it seems the Tor site is too

But I think that’s a Vodaphone thing rather than a UK thing

So private companies are able to decide the websites their customers are allowed to access?

Pretty sure that’s true in the US too, though not common I don’t know of regulation otherwise. Please correct me if I’m wrong, anyone

No - the law that may end up requiring that is a proposal that is at least several months from being enacted [0], although it's been gaining momentum for several years - so unfortunately is looking like it might actually happen

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-6606560

Is there concern in the press with the state having access to this data and using it to leverage individuals?

Sky and Virgin Media would often block sites I was trying to access, before I bought a vpn service. So yes the UK ISPs do block sites.

I've seen a lot of things blocked, e.g. sci-hub

Plenty of high seas sites are blocked.

Ugh I have news for you

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