Virgin UK is blocking DNS Resolution to kiwifarms dot net

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Smug Chuckler said:
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No, but the domain's available.

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Adding on to my previous comments about the state of UK politics making this shit inevitable, the same is also true of the judiciary as evidenced by the ongoing crusade waged by UK judges vis a vis super-injunctions* and the rulings on what constitutes "decency" in pornography and how "hate speech" gets defined by anyone who decides to interpret hypothetically anything as hate speech.

As for the police...yeah I think we all know the maymes but to make it clear, the UK police have turned "focus all our time and efforts on absolute petty bullshit like people getting offended over rap lyrics or a muslim accusing a local store of hate speech for selling peppa pig DVDs" into an art form solely due to the fact that it is far easier and better PR for them to act like enforcers of politically correct morality laws rather than actually fight crime since that tends to result in them having to manhandle brown people and thus result in them being declared literal SS members trying to ethnically cleanse all niggers and kebabs by media and labour politicians.

Basically, the problem all stems from these institutions being infested with the worst kind of boomer who, left wing or right wing, shares a mix of absolute prudishness and a very firmly held belief in the need for "decency" and "proper respect afforded government institutions" which all combine to result in the nation being run by literal freedom despising puritans who are obsessed with banning anything and everything that every fringe group whines about solely because they think that merely being complained about warrants censorship

* i.e. "I JUDGE HIGGINSBOTTOMLY ORDER THE INTERNET NOT TO PUBLISH THE NAME OF THIS RICH PERSON WHO WAS ARRESTED FOR DOG RAPE! ALL YOU INTERNET PEOPLE JOLLY WELL BETTER NOT POST IT OR ELSE!"
 
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Apoth42 said:
It'll be interesting to see if he backs down after pressure. Of course, he most certainly doesn't know or care.

https://twitter.com/richardbranson/status/952820229377228801?lang=en
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I don't know if Branson has anything to do with Virgin Media anymore he got rich by building up virgin companies and then selling them off to someone else while he made a new one.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Group#Formerly_owned_ventures
 
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Racist Trash said:
I don't know if Branson has anything to do with Virgin Media anymore he got rich by building up virgin companies and then selling them off to someone else while he made a new one.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Group#Formerly_owned_ventures
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Oh, so its an American censoring the site.

Guess Americans can't be as smug as they usually are.
 
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Apoth42 said:
Oh, so its an American censoring the site.

Guess Americans can't be as smug as they usually are.
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:optimistic:

In all seriousness, this sort of thing is a little more worrisome than when the government tries to do this sort of thing, solely because 90% of the time they either a) promise to ban stuff then never do or b) say they'll ban it but they can't figure out how a windows works so they quietly hope people forget about it.

Virgin produces internet juice for a living, so if they ban it's marginally more effective*

*I mean, unless you use PIA or something.
 
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An Sionnach Seang said:
for what it's worth, this is what you see when you try to access an officially blocked site:
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It's intresting that they talk about high court orders either it's a boilerplate message or it's relating to the one where ISPs had to turn on those child friendly filters by default.

http://www.ukispcourtorders.co.uk/ and https://help.virginmedia.com/system/templates/selfservice/vm/help/customer/locale/en-GB/portal/200300000001000/article/HELP-2374/List-of-Court-Orders?query=blocking sites I can't find anything related to a court order specifically targeting Kiwifarms.

https://www.internetmatters.org/parental-controls/broadband-mobile/virgin-media-broadband-web-safe/ This is a guide for Virgins to turn off baby internet mode.

And for Sky users:
https://www.internetmatters.org/parental-controls/broandband-mobile-networks/sky-broadband/
 
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From what I can tell (and I really hope I'm wrong, I'm terrible at computer stuff) Virgin's Superhub router won't allow for DNS setting changes, the setting is conveniently missing. Guess it's time for a new router (or broadband provider, Virgin are fuckfaces)
 
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Cantaloupine said:
From what I can tell (and I really hope I'm wrong, I'm terrible at computer stuff) Virgin's Superhub router won't allow for DNS setting changes, the setting is conveniently missing. Guess it's time for a new router (or broadband provider, Virgin are fuckfaces)
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You can also set it on your computer.
 
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