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We are now on the slippery slope of which there is no return.

The minute UK ISPs got the infrastructure in place to block TBP, they got the infrastructure to block any webpage the government want at the touch of a few buttons. Now it's easy to "just block this website as well".

The beginning of a censored internet.

Fucking wonderful.

(Blocked on Be [bethere.co.uk] too, btw.)

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This isn't anything new. Most of the major ISPs in the UK work with the Internet Watch Foundation [1] who maintain a blacklist of sites with certain types of content (child pornography, criminally obscene images, etc.) and have been blocking these for years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Watch_Foundation

Understood, but the point here is that promobay.org doesn't actually link to copyright material or anything else of such a nature.

Promobay.org was just banned because it has a weak affiliation to a method of desceminating content, some of which could in certain circumstances be copyright material - but ultimately that is up to the USER and not the website to which promobay is related.

Edit: grammar.

We haven't had official word from any of the ISPs involved.

Sounds to me like a mistake, or an excessively cautious response to the prior court order requiring ISPs to block access to TPB. This may be a different domain, and it may be hosted on a different server, but this is inextricably linked to TPB.

That's the thing about slippery slopes. You can generally point to any specific instance and say "but this isn't anything new".

The UK will be the next Denmark.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_Denmark

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