Comments on: UK is over the edge: archive.org blocked at the telecom level

By: neozeed

neozeed — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 07:48:23 +0000

In reply to Andrew Roberts. It's blocked on all of them. You have to do the proof of ID to unlock it, as I found with EE. Most people in the UK are totally oblivious to this as once I got DSL it wasn't blocked, and now Ive been here over a year I finally have enough credit to qualify for a subscription cellphone plan, not the monthly, and there was no block there. It seems it is only tourists and people with poor credit/income that are immediately blocked from archive.org . There is no internet freedom here at all sadly, no free speech, no right to host or say anything.

By: Andrew Roberts

Andrew Roberts — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 21:50:53 +0000

I have been a Internet Archive subscriber for over 20 years and a Three mobile phone Sim card user for 4 days, first time I haven’t been able to access my and others papers of historical interest to aid my reseach. This time next month I will still have .my Internet Archive account but most definitely will not have a Three account.

By: bamdad

bamdad — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 16:59:14 +0000

yep, nannystates need to die a fiery death..

By: Stu

Stu — Tue, 31 May 2022 11:15:12 +0000

The blocking by mobile companies is insane.

I use Zen internet at home, Andrews and Arnold is the other sane operator for broadband.

By: rakslice

rakslice — Sat, 21 May 2022 12:10:39 +0000

Is this the end result of the digital economy whatsit they passed there like 5 years ago? Like consumer ISPs have to have provide this filtering by law, on by default with an opt out like this?

By: Richard Birch

Richard Birch — Thu, 12 May 2022 17:26:59 +0000

I think it’s because this is a common workaround for blocked sites – just request a capture of it and view that instead. Not saying that I agree with it however.