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UK is also censoring porn sites...

Only with crappy ISPs like Virgin, which has court-mandated DNS bans for many websites (like ThePirateBay)

I use Zen which has no such restriction. Though for safety all my illegal activity is done via VPN because this is still a Five Eyes country.

EE also does this by default (you can turn it off, but you have to contact them)

EDIT: or is it Three? I can never remember which company provided the last "burner" SIM I got for each trip to the UK.

It's Three that asks for credit card numbers before watching the nudes.

I actually switched to EE and they have no such restriction.

Friendly reminder that all ISPs in the UK are required to store your entire browsing history for a full year, and 17 government agencies, including the Department of Agriculture, can access it without a warrant. Snoopers Act has been passed and lives on for years now, and I'm yet to meet a person who is even slightly bothered by it.

Except that’s not right

https://decoded.legal/blog/2021/06/must-all-uk-internet-acce...

> Don’t all ISPs have retention notices? Probably not (for the reasons above), but this is not public information, and ISPs and others subject to retention notices face statutory prohibitions on disclosure.

> If all Internet access providers were subject to retention notices, wouldn’t it be easier to say that? There would be no need to dance around issues of secrecy, or explain why the list of notice recipients cannot be published. The fact that the Home Office chooses to take this approach undermines the claim that all providers have notices.

This source appears to be engaging in wishful thinking.

The people at my isp insist they don’t store anything other than bandwidth use (which is exposed to me so I know that already)

I don’t keep much data at work for that long

If it is a thing it’s either a massive conspiracy across thousands of network engineers or you could point to some technical details on how it’s implemented.

It's not a conspiracy, they just can't say by law. Did you expect them to tell you if they have an order from the Home Office telling them to not divuldge this information under the threat of massive fines and jail time?

Thousands of people, including a few friends and dozens of acquaintances, including those who have retired, emigrated, and changed citizenship, are all successfully keeping silent about this.

That’s by definition a conspiracy

At this point Turkey is probably more free than the UK.

Can you elaborate please? The UK isn't blocking gay porn sites for example.

I think freedom of speech is an obvious example.

… You think freedom of speech is worse in the UK than in Erdogan’s Turkey? Just what do you think is going on in the UK?

I’ve noticed Americans get some… extremely weird and biased reporting about free speech in the UK. Extreme outlier cases like that Count Dankula guy get reported as the norm.

I think you are smoking crack if you think Turkey has more freedom of speech than the UK.

Do you have any data to support your assertion or are you just making things up?

Start here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Turkey

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