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Court ordered websites blocked

Mossess · 2012-10-24 13:28:30

Looks like we (ISPs in Ireland) have gone down the road of blocking websites on order of the courts. A music sharing website has been blocked, IMO because of the music industry. Whats next? Political parties blocked if they don’t agree with the government? Religious sites banned? What happens if in a few years we see…

24-10-2012 1:28pm

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Mossess

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Looks like we (ISPs in Ireland) have gone down the road of blocking websites on order of the courts.
A music sharing website has been blocked, IMO because of the music industry.

Whats next? Political parties blocked if they don’t agree with the government? Religious sites banned? What happens if in a few years we see ourselves in a situation whereby a church has a lot of control over the government. It might not even be a church, it might be a company, just look at the control the builders had in this country up until a few years ago.

It's a dark dark path we are on if you ask me.

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#2 24-10-2012 1:30pm

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Here we go again!! :rolleyes:

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#3 24-10-2012 1:31pm

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Mossess wrote: »

Looks like we (ISPs in Ireland) have gone down the road of blocking websites on order of the courts.
A music sharing website has been blocked, IMO because of the music industry.

Whats next? Political parties blocked if they don’t agree with the government? Religious sites banned? What happens if in a few years we see ourselves in a situation whereby a church has a lot of control over the government. It might not even be a church, it might be a company, just look at the control the builders had in this country up until a few years ago.

It's a dark dark path we are on if you ask me.

We already have a thread open, and a UPC statement outlines that it is an error on their part, TPB is not blocked.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=81403168#post81403168

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#4 24-10-2012 1:39pm

Mossess

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TheDoc wrote: »

We already have a thread open, and a UPC statement outlines that it is an error on their part, TPB is not blocked.

https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=81403168#post81403168

Hooray

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#5 24-10-2012 2:32pm

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already got one thread on this

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