Pledge “boycottcensors”
"I will move to an ISP that does not censor my Internet access but only if 1,000 other people in the UK will do the same."
— Alex Tingle (contact)
Deadline to sign up by: 10th January 2009
146 people signed up, 854 more were needed
Country: United Kingdom
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The following UK Internet Service Providers are censoring their users' web-access:
- Opal Telecommunications
- Virgin Media
- Be Unlimited/O2/Telefonica
- Demon Internet
- Easynet/UK Online/Sky
- Plusnet
- Eclipse Internet / Kingston Communications
On 5 December 2008, it was noticed that access to Wikipedia from the United Kingdom was being routed through a small number of "transparent" proxies, and that access to an article (Virgin Killer) and image (Image:Virgin_Killer.jpg) which appeared on that article were being blocked completely to people using those proxies.
The censored page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Killer
More details:
http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:A...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/07/...
- donate one pound to the International Red Cross for each of the 26 Anglican bishops sitting in the House of Lords who completes the Sober Survey
- make my voice heard and help young people’s views to get noticed. When I have an opinion on a news story, I will voice it in the media by commenting online, writing to editors of papers or magazines, or calling in to TV or radio programmes. It’s our news too.
- become a liberty activist in New Hampshire by September 30, 2011
- donate £20 to World Water Day March 2010
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Alex Tingle, the Pledge Creator, joined by:
- jamus Wood
- Jay MacDonald
- Richard Rothwell
- Robin Burchell
- Simon Greenwood
- Robin S
- Simon Gibbs (O2 user)
- Duncan Hothersall
- Paul Nolan
- helen wilkinson-makey
- Persephone Hazard
- Angus Ireland
- Dave (Be Broadband)
- Andrew Hickey
- Lee Hickey
- Tom Lawton
- Neil de Carteret
- Stuart Bailey
- Marc Simms
- Scott Clay
- Jonathan Ridgway
- Dave Ward
- Nick Hill (Virgin Media)
- John Imrie
- Glen McNamee
- John PM Chappell
- Owen Blacker
- Jon Dowland
- Milos Rancic
- Tom Walker
- Oxana O (Be broadband)
- Konstantinos Natsakis
- Guy Rintoul
- Andrew Ednie
- Chris Papaioannou
- Yojan Shrestha
- Pedro Corbett
- matthew solle
- Helena M
- Tom Pengilley
- Owen Duffy
- jon head
- joginder singh foley
- Ed Truckell
- Ross Fenning
- Peter Williams
- Eric Walmsley
- Richard Fletcher
- Mark Webb
- Kneale Faragher
- Hugh Parker
- Tony Dodd
- Richard Bogle
- Ronald T. Dainton
- Cory Doctorow
- Chris Mear
- Daniel Bartlett
- Andy Ward
- Chris Ovenden
- Andrew Freemantle
- Dave Prince
- John Conway
- Rachel
- Feargal Hogan
- Thierry Dodin
- Robin Arnold
- Barney Balmforth
- Frank Pennycook
- DAVID URMSTON
- Simon Davis
- Harry Alton
- Chris Baxter
- Robin Edwards
- Tony Humphreys
- Raby Whyte
- Chris Miller
- Joe MacMahon
- Adam Hirst
- Tim Morley
- Phil
- Mr Malcolm Wood
- Simon Johnson
- David Mudkips
- Mark Powell
- Scott Lyon
- Jerry Drake
- Richard
- leslie dorringotn
- Francis
- Calì Antonio Maria
- Casey Jones
- keith mitchell
- Martin Klefas-Stennett
- Derek Williams
- Lee Popman
- Adam Gibbins
- atomiku
- Pissed Off
- Benjamin Greenberg
- Ben Heley
- Kevin Ferguson
- Tap
- Pedro Pinn
- William Payne
- Tom McBride
- Richard Strickland
- Stefan Isendahl
- Paul Grimshaw
- David Caldwell
- Dr. Jonathan Hughes
- Howard Thorp
- Mercedes
- Paul Templeton
- Peter Chamberlin
- 32 people who did not want to give their names, 1 of whom has done the pledge
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- donate one pound to the International Red Cross for each of the 26 Anglican bishops sitting in the House of Lords who completes the Sober Survey (2 people)
- make my voice heard and help young people’s views to get noticed. When I have an opinion on a news story, I will voice it in the media by commenting online, writing to editors of papers or magazines, or calling in to TV or radio programmes. It’s our news too. (1 person)
I plan to switch from my 24Mb Be Broadband package to BT's 20Mb.
It would appear that six of them do, but the other couple of hundred don't. On that basis, it would seem somewhat easier to list the six that do.
You could start here in your search for a new ISP:
http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=choo...
If you hunt out one that has made public statements like this:
http://forums.aquiss.net/viewtopic.php?f...
you're very likely to be on the right track. (Disclaimer: I have no link to Aquiss, I just appreciate the fact that they're upfront with their customers).
Our goal should be to ensure that NONE of the UK's ISPs are censoring our Internet. To change the minds of those that do, we need to show them that large numbers of us care about freedom of speech.
If you do choose to switch immediately, then please be sure to tell them why you are switching. Make a big fuss about it...
...then go and tell your friends about this pledge!
http://www.iwf.org.uk/funding/page.64.htm
This is the organisation that provides the (private) URL shitlists.
I'm currently at work, we have Plusnet here so I'm assuming it's blocked here but I feel it probably wouldn't be wise to check here...
hurrah for the free world!
Hypocrite much?
And as far as I know, they just provide you with an internet connection - no accompanying nanny.
Blocking this image runs c contrary to the freedom of information we expect from the Internet. People who find this image to disturbing should grow up or not look at it. I don’t think that this childish action by the IWF has any impact on Paedophiles and other perverts.
From a Demon ISP connection a URL search at archive.org correctly gives a list of archived pages, but the links from these pages are all somehow munged to point to iwfwebfilter.thus.net even for legitimate content.