Revleft blocked in the UK?

[Zostrianos]

So I was passing through England the other day on a transfer flight (Heathrow airport) and while I was there I used one of the airport's internet stations, and I noticed that Revleft (and a bunch of other pages, like download sites) is blocked....when I type it in, the page shows up for a split second, and then I'm redirected to an error page telling me that the page I'm trying to access has been blocked by the internet provider. I was just wondering if this is a nationwide thing in Britain - I knew they had draconian internet laws, but I didn't know it went this far....:crying:

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

My ISP at least hasn't blocked Revleft. Were you able to determine which ISP that terminal was being serviced by?

[Zostrianos]

I have the name on the tip of my tongue but I can't recall it, I'll try and find it.

[Leonid Brozhnev]

Huh, nope, no problems here. If its a public terminal then loads of sites are probably filtered (porn, usenet, torrents, 'extremist' sites...), they do this in schools and library's too.

[Bronco]

No it isn't nationwide, and as far as I'm aware the internet laws here aren't particularly draconian, no more so than most other countries in any case, it'll just be that they'll have a filter installed to stop people accessing anything dodgy or potentially illegal, airports are probably more likely to be extra cautious as well when it comes to what they'd consider "extremist" material

[Zostrianos]

Draconian in the sense that I've seen time and time again that in the UK if you visit the wrong site or download music, the authorities immediately track you down and give your info to different companies who then sue you (or they send you a huge fine and threaten you with a lawsuit if you don't pay up). I thought this disgusting system had extended to blocking sites as well (which admittedly is not as bad as suing users, but still)...

[TheGeekySocialist]

nope, works fine for me, probably just the airports internet system

[Nox]

Works for me

[Leonid Brozhnev]

Draconian in the sense that I've seen time and time again that in the UK if you visit the wrong site or download music, the authorities immediately track you down and give your info to different companies who then sue you (or they send you a huge fine and threaten you with a lawsuit if you don't pay up). I thought this disgusting system had extended to blocking sites as well (which admittedly is not as bad as suing users, but still)...

It's getting more frequent, but the majority of anti-piracy legislation in this country tends to meet fierce opposition... as it does in other countries. Most of the Government bodies that tackle this like SOCA (Serious Organised Crime Agency) only take down sites hosted in this country and arrest the owners... recently they took down a Hip Hop site and replaced it with a threatening warning, the owner faces a fucked up 10 years in prison. I don't know much about sending downloaders names to baliffs or fining people who have downloaded stuff. They don't have that much jurisdiction in Scotland which is nice, plus the law regarding baliffs is different. Still, I tend to avoid sites hosted here or in the US, a lot of sites I visit are using .es now.

[NewLeft]

What! Okay guys, time to shut down the government site, bring down their server!! Pay back time.

[ColonelCossack]

Fine here.

[ed miliband]

when i live in london i live 6 or so miles north-east of heathrow and yeah - i get revleft there