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Cloudflare starts blocking pirate sites for UK users

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234 points gloxkiqcza | 3 comments | 15 Jul 25 14:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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amiga386 ◴[15 Jul 25 15:09 UTC] No.44571961[source]▶
PSA: UK users can visit all their favourite websites in Tor Browser. Just don't run your torrent client using the tor network. Thank you.

You can also access 4chan, Tattle Life, and other nasty gossip websites that the UK nanny state wants to ban.

And you can access the porn on Reddit and Twitter (though in some cases you'll have to make an account). And of course the "tube" sites work fine.

After you've done that, as a UK citizen, please go to https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/722903 and ask the government to repeal their awful law.

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johnisgood ◴[15 Jul 25 15:51 UTC] No.44572425[source]▶
I hope many UK citizens are going to sign it.
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1. cedws ◴[16 Jul 25 06:53 UTC] No.44579448[source]▶
Even if it does, nothing will change. They've been trying to push through this legislation for 10 years. They don't care what the citizens want - their need to spy takes priority.
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2. johnisgood ◴[16 Jul 25 10:24 UTC] No.44580614[source]▶
I know, what it might do is make people realize that they are not in control, which is what I would like people to know, as a bare minimum.
3. daveoc64 ◴[16 Jul 25 23:22 UTC] No.44587931[source]▶
> They don't care what the citizens want

Polling has shown that the Online Safety Act had 70+ % of the population supporting it.

Something like 60% don't think it goes far enough.