Chaos Computer Club on the blocking of our website in UK

Previous discussion around this TL:DR

This is an optional filter provided by ISPs. Most are opt-in for existing customers; opt-out for new customers. They've been around for a long time for mobile users. Turning them off usually means visiting a web page and clicking boxes.

This is not a court-ordered ban - seen when torrent sites get blocked. This is not part of the IWF blocklist of images of child sexual abuse.

Surely the future of the Web will be a decentralized one, without a single point of failure. No matter the policies or laws we have in place, this will continue happening somewhere. We need to fix this from a technical point of view if we truly want everybody to continue using the Web.

Thanks to relatively new technology like Bitcoin, I'm more convinced than ever that decentralization of information is possible with little latency to propagate changes across the whole network.

It’s definitely not blocked by Sky, I can get to their site fine. Are we talking about the default blacklist at an ISP level that you can turn off? I agree that it shouldn’t be there, but it’s not a ‘Great Firewall of Britain’ (the closest to that would be the Internet Watch Foundation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Watch_Foundation )

Alternative link in case of censorship:

https://213.73.89.123/en/updates/2014/ccc-censored-in-uk

Its not blocked for me. Never seen it blocked anywhere in the UK

UK - facepalm