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If a user visits a blocked site within the United Kingdom, the user will be forwarded to www.ukispcourtorders.co.uk which includes the list of blocked domains and court orders. ISPs with over 400,000 subscribers subject to blocking orders include: BT Group [24] EE. Sky Broadband [25]
John Carr of the UK Council for Child Internet Safety said of the proposals: "a major plank of the UK’s approach to online child protection will be destroyed at a stroke". [39] However, the requirement that a UK government adheres to EU rules on net neutrality may have disappeared when the United Kingdom left the European Union.
In 2019, virtually all adults aged 16 to 44 years in the UK were recent internet users (99%), compared with 47% of adults aged 75 years and over; in aggregate, the third-highest in Europe. [4] Internet bandwidth per Internet user was the seventh highest in the world in 2016, [5] and average and peak internet connection speeds were top-quartile ...
Several UK airports had problems, including Edinburgh Airport, whose departure boards froze, [109] and Gatwick Airport, where automatic barcode scanning stopped working and had to be checked manually. [53] Amadeus, which manages UK baggage at Heathrow, said they were affected by the IT outage. [110]
Freedom of speech by country. Internet censorship and surveillance by country. v. t. e. In the United Kingdom censorship has been applied to various forms of expression such as the media, cinema, entertainment venues, literature, theatre and criticism of the monarchy. While there is no general right to free speech in the UK, [1] British ...
ISP Default network blocking. Internet customers in the UK are prohibited from accessing a range of web sites by default, because they have their Internet access filtered by their ISPs. The filtering programme has applied to new ISP customers since the end of 2013, and has been extended to existing users on a rolling basis.
The Online Safety Act 2023[1][2][3] (c. 50) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom to regulate online speech and media. It passed on 26 October 2023 and gives the relevant Secretary of State the power, subject to parliamentary approval, to designate and suppress or record a wide range of speech and media deemed "harmful". [4][5]
British Library cyberattack. Entrance gate to the British Library on Euston Road, St Pancras, London, looking towards the Newton statue. In October 2023 Rhysida, a hacker group, attacked the online information systems of the British Library. They demanded a ransom of 20 bitcoin, at the time around £ 596,000, to restore services and return the ...