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by shawabawa3 4268 days ago
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

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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.