2025-04-29 - OFCOM: Illegal Content Risk Assessment Enforcement Programme

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

Null, you should ask for this letter in physical form and frame it.

So basically KiwiFarms is setting the precedent that cutting the UK off from the greater internet is the correct move going forward.

2025. What a time to be alive.

Precisely. If the easiest move is to simply block UK address, then a lot of other sites are going to do it.

 

[Justanotherguy]

Respond, tell them to go fuck themselve, then let the UK users back.

 

[cyberdick]

> we have decided not to proceed with issuing an information notice requesting a copy of the written record of the illegal content risk assessment conducted

Oh, you were going to send another letter to the guy who told you to fuck off the first time? Shiver me timbers

 

[JohnnyG]

we have decided not to proceed with issuing an information notice requesting a copy of the written record of the illegal content risk assessment
although we are not issuing an information notice at this time, we may revisit this matter in future

There's an old saying: "Never give an order which can't/won't be obeyed."

Wonder if this is a case of, "We're withdrawing the order you weren't going to obey, before you can refuse to obey it and show us to be toothless. But we can totally still issue orders you have to follow!"

 

[libRT]

Kinda disappointing, they need to be more embarrassed.

 

[Ace888Ace]

I mean, I expected them to roll over, but I didn't expect them to send an email saying they were going to roll over. I thought it was just gonna be a tacit thing where they took no further action. Well, there you go.

 

[GunCar Gary]

it's a good start. when does russia, china, india, and the rest of europe get added to the block list?

 

[Beautiful Border]

As explained in our note, the targeting of UK users by, for example, promoting ways of evading access
restrictions, could be relevant to whether that service still has links to the UK, depending on the
specific circumstances.

It's interesting that they decided KF is compliant with the act, since the splash screen users in the UK are now directed to comes with instructions on how to access the site through Tor or a VPN.

Makes the whole thing feel like a bluff on their part you correctly called. "We can't actually touch you, but we've decided you've complied so we don't have to do anything, please ignore the bit we told you not to do but did anyway".

 

[Gossip Avoider]

Josh doesn't have to deal with the British government, and the British government successfully bullied their citizens in even the most unimportant aspects of their daily lives (having to use a VPN for access to a gossip forum).
Win-win, except for the eternal Anglos, but that's just a small price to pay for not having to speak German.

 

[Red flag]

 

[Mankirk]

As
explained in our note, the targeting of UK users by, for example, promoting ways of evading access
restrictions, could be relevant to whether that service still has links to the UK, depending on the
specific circumstances.

So telling people that VPNs exist as a way to bypass country based restrictions (like every VPN sponsored youtube video) gives them reason to hassle you even after blocking UK ips? That is pretty crazy, even if it would be completely ineffective.

 

[Moon Guy]

I did not know what the bonger feds niggers expected. America has already settled the issue of the UK telling America what to do way back in 1783.

 

[NSA]

Oi do you got a loicense for that websoite??

 

[Scarthew]

Duties to protect UK users also apply to providers of services that are capable of
being used by individuals in the UK and which pose a material risk of significant harm to them. As explained in our note, the targeting of UK users by, for example, promoting ways of evading access

"We see you are doing something we do not approve of but also we're such massive pussies we will not pursue... for now"

 

[Plastic Bag]

Now unblock British IPs until they check again, send you a letter, then you can block them again. Some clueless bong is paid to do this btw.

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

The purpose of the Act is to protect UK users of internet service

Talk about a blatant fucking lie.

Also:

OFCOM,

Nigger, Nigger, Nigger!

Love,

Null

 

[Irkek]

every time i think the UK cannot be more pathetic as a nation i get proven wrong in ways i never thought possible

 

[Testacles Maximus]

"Obey ofcom"

"No, fuck off."

"We'll take that as a yes"

 

[Two Dollars]

So do the farms host illegal content that shouldn’t be seen by anyone, or do UK citizens have a right to view that content? Which is it?

 

[WelperHelper99]

Precisely. If the easiest move is to simply block UK address, then a lot of other sites are going to do it.

The UK is going to become a 'i' internet soon, much like North Korea at this rate. Suffah I guess.