is it coincidence that I received, today, an email from the "Department of
Dirty" that stated?:
---- QUOTE ----
The Department of Dirty is working with internet and mobile companies to
stop the dirty internet. We are committed to protecting children and adults
from online filth such as:
- Talk to Frank <
http://www.talktofrank.com/>:
This government website tries to educate young people about drugs. We
all know what ‘education’ means, don’t we? Blocked by Three.
- Girl Guides Essex <
http://www.girlguidingessexne.org.uk/>:
They say, ‘guiding is about acquiring skills for life’. We say, why
would young girls need skills? Blocked by BT.
- South London Refugee Association <
http://www.asylumwelcome.org.uk/>:
This charity aims to relieve poverty and distress. Not on our watch they
don’t. Blocked by BT, EE, Sky and VirginMedia
We need you to help us take a stand against blogs, charities and education
websites, all of which are being blocked [1]. It’s time to stop this sick
filth. Together, we can clean up the internet.
*
www.departmentofdirty.co.uk <
http://www.departmentofdirty.co.uk/>*
On 23 July 2014 19:06, Stephen Davies <stephen.davies@???>
wrote:
> Martin,
> Like you I use OpenDNS instead of my ISP's DNS, but that wasn't the
> point of my post.
>
> If you have your own website then you should check to see if any of the
> Major UK ISP's are blocking it.
> I found that SKY is blocking my Wordpress Blog.
> So far they have not responded to my request to get it unblocked.
>
> If they are blocking it then they have to have a reason. It can't be
> because their crawlers have read the content of my site because they are
> all blocked and from the logs, I can't see any SKY domain looking at my
> site to determine its contents.
>
> While I agree with the objectives of stopping children from accessing the
> nastier side of the internet, blocking sites that are nothing more than a
> BLOG simply because a blog could contain bad stuff just ain't on IMHO. My
> site contains nothing more than a load of stories that I have written over
> the years. So why block it.
>
> From what I've read, I am far from the only Blog owner that has this
> happen.
>
> Stephen D
>
>
> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Hampshire] ISP Filtering Date:
> Wed, 23 Jul 2014 17:55:51 +0100 From: Martin N <martin.n@???>
> <martin.n@???> To: stephen.davies@???,
> Hampshire LUG Discussion List <hampshire@???>
> <hampshire@???>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> At 14:42 23/07/2014, you wrote:
> >There were a lot of posts on the Interwebs about the fact that most
> >people are not using the mandatory [redacted] filters at the ISP's.
> >
> >Some of the commenters complained that the likes of Talk-Talk were
> >blocking their wordpress blogs for no good reason other than the
> >fact that they were running Wordpress.
>
> Apparently according to NNSquad email I got, only talktalk got above
> 10% of people to sign up.
> The rest were like 4 or 5%
>
> I assume OpenDNS gets around these blocks.
>
> Martin
>
> New NSA Slogan:
> "We work to ensure your safety.
> Don't Worry We Have Your Back[door] "
>
>
>
>
>
>
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