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The United Kingdom is colored Yellow, yet there is Internet censorship in the UK:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Uni...

The description mentions the ISP-controlled, opt-in "filtering" plans, but not the state-mandated no-opt-out censorship of an indeterminate number of websites (the lists are not public)

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The state mandated no-opt-out censorship appears to still be the choice of the ISP.

At home, using virginmedia I can't access the pirate bay. At work (unknown ISP), I can

In the UK, they have censored filestube, took down filecrop and others. Why I mention this instead of TPB? Well, filestube, at the time of the censorship, didn't encourage copyright infringement, it litterly was just a search engine for file host links. The excuse they gave for censoring it was that they couldn't keep up with the takedown notices. Imagine if they applied that logic to Google.

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