Related "The Conservative Woman" has been blocked by Three:
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/yes-tcw-is-being-censore...
It's sad we're living in times we must exclusively use a VPN.
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Richard is often shortened to Dick, e.g. as in "Tom, Dick, and Harry".
I know that Dick is another name for Richard. But Why? They don't seem to even be plays off of the same name, nor do they sound the same at all. It's like if another name for John was Frank. It makes zero sense.
Another name for John is Jack, though.
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#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
> "I had thought that TPB was blocked because of court orders. > So how come one ISP blocks it, and other doesn't?" The court order[1] had 6 defined defendants: - BRITISH SKY BROADCASTING LIMITED - BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLC - EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE LIMITED - TALKTALK TELECOM GROUP PLC - TELEFÓNICA UK LIMITED - VIRGIN MEDIA LIMITED The court order only affected the listed ISPs (at that time, 94% share of the consu…
No obligation? The DA could sue immediately in the public interest, or if not it could be the original plaintiff, and then the remaining ISPs would have the opportunity to defend their cause themselves.
Not criminal law. No DA. (You do get “plaintiff” right, so I’m mildly confused)
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In the UK the filtering is on by default. The customer can opt out of the filtering by contacting the ISP and requesting to opt out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_blocking_in_the_United_Kin...
My ISP asked my if I wanted filtering when I signed up. Amusingly if you say yes it suggests you find a different ISP.
>Amusingly if you say yes it suggests you find a different ISP.
Was this in the UK, a UK ISP?
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
> These content filtering schemes are usually legally mandated, and the age of 18 is set by law. It's also worth adding that 18 is typically the age when someone is considered legally accountable for their actions as an adult. We shouldn't be surprised that this age pops up in so many laws because of that, even though it is an arbitrary line in most cases.
The odd thing is that in most countries the age of consent is below (sometimes significantly below) 18. So we’ve got strange mixed signals.
Yeah it's kinda funny that I can legally have sex but not look at porn or send nudes, both of which are arguably less risky.
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#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
Richard is often shortened to Dick, e.g. as in "Tom, Dick, and Harry".
I know that Dick is another name for Richard. But Why? They don't seem to even be plays off of the same name, nor do they sound the same at all. It's like if another name for John was Frank. It makes zero sense.
The nickname for John is Jack, actually. Jack and Dick both belong to a class of nicknames that all end in "ck" or "k" sounds, but for which the original doesn't have a k sound.
* Jack
* Dick
* Rock from Roland
* Hank from Henry
* Chuck from Charles
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#137Many years ago, I used to work for Vodafone - and had some responsibility for their filtering stuff. One of the main problems was that, at the time, it was all managed by Blue Coat. As they were a US company, many of the "violations" that they picked up just weren't considered problematic for a UK / EU audience. Similarly, they would use blanked keyword blocking. So sex education resources would frequently get blocke…
Similarly, they would use blanked keyword blocking. So sex education resources would frequently get blocked. I had a colleague whose surname, Sextro, was part of his email address. He occasionally had messages blocked by blanket filters like that.
I once debugged an email delivery issue which turned out to be a similar filter which included email headers while scanning, ending up blocking any email that passed through an SMTP server called foo.sussex.bar.hp.com (or maybe it was Essex, my memory is hazy).
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#138UK mobile data is filtered by default, while fixed-line isn't. I suspect this is an artifact of "adult" premium rate phone lines - access to those numbers must be limited to those verified to be over 18, and while I've not done the research to back this up it wouldn't surprise me at all if it's the application of this rule over the years that has led to this situation.
Of course a mobile telephony provider is going to be a lot more certain which phone numbers attract the specific premium rate categories to need to be blocked than they are which random domains should be blocked :P.
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#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know that Dick is another name for Richard. But Why? They don't seem to even be plays off of the same name, nor do they sound the same at all. It's like if another name for John was Frank. It makes zero sense.
My wife's name is Aleksandra, but the short version of that is Ola. Similarly, Olek is a short for Aleksander. Also no idea why.
The O/A phonetic distinction in Russian and related languages is tricky, with some dialects making a distinction and some not (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vowel_reduction_in_Russian and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akanye)
If someone would pronounce Alek and Olek the same, the chosen transcription of the shortened nickname is pretty much arbitrary.