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1title: Chaos Computer Club on the blocking of our website in UK
2date: 2014-12-05 18:34:00
3updated: 2014-12-05 18:46:08
4author: erdgeist
5tags: update, pressemitteilung
6
7A significant portion of British citizens are currently blocked from accessing the Chaos Computer Club's (CCC) website. On top of that, Vodafone customers are blocked from accessing the ticket sale to this year's Chaos Communication Congress (31C3). [1]
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12Since July 2013, a government-backed so-called opt out list censors the
13open internet. These internet filters, authorized by Prime Minister
14David Cameron, are implemented by UK’s major internet service providers
15(ISPs). Dubbed as the "Great Firewall of Britain", the lists block adult
16content as well as material related to alcohol, drugs, smoking, and even
17opinions deemed "extremist".
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19Users can opt-out of censorship, or bypass it by technical means, but
20only a minority of users know how to bypass those filters. Accessing the
21server directly via http://213.73.89.123/ currently appears to work
22quite well, thereby rendering the censorship efforts useless.
23
24Internet filters simply do not work, but leaving technical limitation
25aside, the CCC's example shows that unsolicited overblocking, meaning
26wrongly classified websites, is a common phenomenon in large censorship
27infrastructures. However, it may very well be that the CCC is considered
28"extremist" judged by British standards of freedom of speech.
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30"When these filters were introduced, their abuse was imminent. Today, we
31are shocked to learn that they not only block access to our site, but
32also to our conference," says CCC-spokesperson Dirk Engling. "We see
33this as proof that censorship infrastructure – no matter for which
34reasons it was set up, and no matter which country you are in – will
35always be abused for political reasons."
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37### Links
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39[31C3 ticket sale](http://tickets.events.ccc.de "31C3 ticket sale")