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

[Prokhor Zakharov]

It's probably wise for anyone to use a proxy of sorts as a form of digital hygiene. Unless someone is incurably stupid, any 'Bong' who loves this site can easily connect. Their BBC viewing might be slowed a little bit tho.

Anyone who doesn't connect to KF with a VPN or TOR is retarded.

 

[McMitch]

I genuinely cannot fathom how they believe this is a victory. I guess after losing so many self imposed battles the only thing they've got left is thinking Jersh blocking them is being a good british citizen.

I cannot fathom how users on this site believe it’s a victory on their behalf. Especially after Null outlined how he’s not going to let his own users just blindly walk into the trap laid by their own tyrants.

This is 100% the UK government writhing in response to receiving an injury to their narcissism, desperate to recontextualize and clear loss as a victory. If Null IP blocking UK users were truly in compliance like they say it is here, they would have had no need to send a letter telling Null so.

Spoiler: Literally the UK government right now

 

[NoddingOut]

Anyone who doesn't connect to KF with a VPN or TOR is retarded.

Want to expand on why? I stand by my convictions and have plenty of friends and family who know how I feel. If I live under a tyrannical government that would take my freedom for words I say, then I'd be more driven to just up and leave.

 

[DickMain]

Anyone who doesn't connect to KF with a VPN or TOR is retarded.

I never will because my government and ISP can suck my dick for even thinking about telling me what I can and can't look at. I'll resort to it as an absolute necessity, but until then the fedboys can just cope and seethe while looking at me enjoying my open clearnet privileges.

 

[Absolutego]

I don't trust the UK government enough to think they won't find a way to rationalize the mention of VPNs/TOR on our splash page as making the site subject to OFCOM regulation, troons are just on a losing streak there atm and one wasn't wormed its way into a position of authority within the responsible body yet.

 

[Stoneheart]

Can you unblock northern irish IPs just to fuck with them?

 

[Marvin]

I travel to Bongland once or twice a year. I run a VPN server on a computer back home at my house in the US.

Anyone who doesn't connect to KF with a VPN or TOR is retarded.

You shouldn't have to obscure your origin when you're lawfully making use of a service you're paying for. Like the fact that I can identify the IPs of people visiting the cwcki shouldn't mean anything to anyone in a free country.

 

[Low IQ Doctor]

If a service restricts access by UK users, that action would need to be effective in order for the
service to fall out of scope of the Act. The relevant test remains whether the service has links to the
UK. A service can have links to the UK if it has a significant number of UK users, or if UK users are a
target market. 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
restrictions, could be relevant to whether that service still has links to the UK, depending on the
specific circumstances.

This is straight up lunacy.
>if our citizens decide to use your site, you are subject to our rules
>ps if you suggest that our citizens use a VPN, you are still somehow subject to our rules

Come on Josh, be the little ODD shit you know you are and challenge the UK government. Expose them as toothless or go down swinging.

 

[zzzten]

vpn's are for koreans that want to access porn, and english people with fucked up teeth and a fascist government.
i'm canadian, and if i want to post pictures of hunter biden in a towel getting stepped on by a bunch of little girls, then i'm going to do it.

what're they gonna do? arrest me for showing north america is ruled by satanic jewish pedophiles that eat children?

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

Unblock the UK kiwis. Fuck the British.

 

[No. 7 cat]

The block just means a portion of the users, that bad teeth ones, definitely use the VPN or TOR all people should use. People should be cautious. Governments can apply radical labels to statements here and employers are not really bound by the First Amendment if they decide an employee is damaging their reputation. Still unblocking them and having another ineffectual foreign bureaucrat says he's really offended has to be funny. Yet I suppose Null wants to keep communications from annoying people to a manageable minimum.

 

[Diggus Bickus]

I cannot fathom how users on this site believe it’s a victory on their behalf. Especially after Null outlined how he’s not going to let his own users just blindly walk into the trap laid by their own tyrants.

This is 100% the UK government writhing in response to receiving an injury to their narcissism, desperate to recontextualize and clear loss as a victory. If Null IP blocking UK users were truly in compliance like they say it is here, they would have had no need to send a letter telling Null so.

Spoiler: Literally the UK government right now

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Your reading comprehension is comparable to a gorilla's if you think for a second I believe this is a victory for the britbongs. You're practically parroting what I said but also calling me a retard for saying it.

 

[Mound Dweller]

Congratulations you literally complied, yeah it's a halfassed concession but it's a submission all the same, you were cowed by a single snarky email, one e-letter from a britgov department achieved more than sammy smith ever did well done.
I have drawer in my kitchen where I collect TV loicense demand letters, they send one every other month or so, they rotate in tone between "didunt chu knuw yu neeeeed a teevee loicense?" to "ARE INSPECTAHS R COMIN 4 U!", nothing every happens because words are meaningless in our anarcho-tyrannical system.
I can appreciate the logic behind "user protection" because everyone should be using a VPN; especially vulnerable localities like bongoloids, but anyone framing this as a proud stand is deluded.

 

[zzzten]

you should respond to the email with video links to BME pain olympics

EDIT* it's an old video of a guy cutting off his own dick

 

[Clem Fandango]

Tor site is pretty seamless if you're on WiFi. Can take a bit longer to load pages with lots of images if you're on 5G, but that's OK. Reminds me of my old 33.6 kilobaud modem days.

 

[McMitch]

Your reading comprehension is comparable to a gorilla's if you think for a second I believe this is a victory for the britbongs. You're practically parroting what I said but also calling me a retard for saying it.

Nigger, I was adding on to what you were saying. The user with poor reading comprehension, likened to that of lowland great apes, is in fact you!

 

[JosephStalin]

Ofcom realized they couldn't win anyway, so they declared victory and walked away. The inhabitants of Airstrip One keep using their VPNs, and nothing has changed.

That's what happens when totalitarian motherfuckers encounter a person from a country who has actual human rights. They lose.

Fuck Ofcom and fuck the shiteaters who have run a once-great country straight into the ground.

 

[>IMPLYING]

Mein nigga, he told them to fuck off twice, once by email, once through a representative. They know his position. All this is, is ass covering. Not looking weak in front of Parliament. The ban is for your own good.

It was actually out of the government's hands once they gave the responsibility to Ofcom. There's no presentation or report to parliament because Ofcom is an independent organisation who is itself complying the laws of the bill since it's 'their' job to make sure standards and laws are obeyed. It's the same for the TV Licence - yes, it's a thing, but it's up the BBC to carry out enforcement, the government is a non-factor. Similar to the TV Licence (who can only send requests for payment and an 'enforcement agent' with no warrant to enter your home nothing else), Ofcom can only act on powers granted to them by the government, and the only real power given to Ofcom is the ability to ask the government to ban websites and even then - as I posited in my original post at the time - it'll likely only requested on overt websites (Incel forums, anti-women sites, none of which I could cite the name of because I don't know them), if it's ever requested at all.

You can tell the TV Licence people to fuck off, either directly to their agents or through not paying, but they'll continue to impotently annoy you (Guy collecting licence letters since 2006). Even though Null told them the facts of the matter, it doesn't matter. I doubt Ofcom even properly absorbed his reply. One guy went to the site, got the white page, and concluded compliance before going to the next one down — I can appreciate the sentiment behind Null's reply to the original letter but I don't think it was fully absorbed by the disinterested and probably underpaid employee who read it.

The UK government went all-in on what the email says essentially: protecting young girls and women. They tried pinning a lot of recent violence on Andrew Tate, just for reference. Adolescence, that Netflix show, was also heralded by the government and was pushed to get shown in schools. It's all an optics meme to give the illusion of action without actually doing anything about the root causes. Bans and restrictions aren't just tyrannical, they're also easy, and don't take much in the way of effort, just enough moralfagging.

Ofcom were given an impossible task to carry out, did it in such a way that would take the least effort and cost (emails asking site owners to do the work on their behalf of assessing its risk) and will likely call it a job well done. There would especially be no incentive to try take court action, which, again, Ofcom wouldn't be able to do without government assent — a government which I remind you, is trying its best to suck up to America at the moment (look up Kier's reaction to the tariffs and the original delay to the safety bill's passing). Kier also said we 'have free speech' last month, and banning a shit ton of American websites would cause some friction.

TLDR: Ofcom is just an semi-independent body that doesn't get paid enough to care nor employ enough people to carry out more than the bare minimum (like the BBC and the government). They can't enforce a fine or ban a site on their own authority (they'd have to ask the government for them) and would likely not want to make anything an actual issue, especially involving courts and what might cause actual problems. The worst-case scenario for Null is that the site would get banned, similar to how some ISPs will block connections to piracy/torrenting sites, but it probably wouldn't. Fuck Ofcom and the impotent UK government.

 

[CryptoHermit]

It is a service provider’s choice whether it chooses to prevent users in the UK from accessing its service
instead of complying with the requirements of the Act to protect UK users.

HIBERNIA UBER ALLES

 

[Terrifik]

Null was absolute right .
Nostradamus tick foward with i - Internet & section of internet be afraid.