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Re: The UK government has blocked IPs

#11

Post by anakaine »

kypro wrote: post #4

For those unaware, the UK police are currently promising to go after people posting misinformation and retweeting content (including video of riots) that might incite hate. In response to this the UK police are being trolled on their live chats (largely by Americans I believe). I did originally post a link to these (you can find them on X), but given the content I don't want to risk it. I'm assuming they're now block…

What's amusing is you posted a link to the 5t year old woman being arrested, and that's also an endpoint which is blocking foreign access.

Re: The UK government has blocked IPs

#12

Post by benmmurphy »

kypro wrote: post #4

For those unaware, the UK police are currently promising to go after people posting misinformation and retweeting content (including video of riots) that might incite hate. In response to this the UK police are being trolled on their live chats (largely by Americans I believe). I did originally post a link to these (you can find them on X), but given the content I don't want to risk it. I'm assuming they're now block…

the wild thing is in the UK private citizens can bring about criminal prosecutions. section 179 is a hornets nest waiting to be poked. in the UK prosecutors are not a bulwark against bad law. the courts would need to thread the needle to protect freedom of speech for elites but allow suppression for plebs.

> at the time of sending it, the person intended the message, or the information in it, to cause non-trivial psychological or physical harm to a likely audience, and

even announcing future legitimate policy direction by the government could be construed as causing non-trivial psychological harm.

Re: The UK government has blocked IPs

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Post by [deleted] »

kypro wrote: post #4

For those unaware, the UK police are currently promising to go after people posting misinformation and retweeting content (including video of riots) that might incite hate. In response to this the UK police are being trolled on their live chats (largely by Americans I believe). I did originally post a link to these (you can find them on X), but given the content I don't want to risk it. I'm assuming they're now block…

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Re: The UK government has blocked IPs

#14

Post by ethbr1 »

inopinatus wrote: post #6
protosam wrote: post #2

I blindly clicked this expecting an article about the matter. Was kinda surprised to be given a live demonstration. I can reach nhs.uk fine. Edit: searching Google, there are recent reports that make me feel like this is their response to being too incompetent to process cyber crime reports. I’m genuinely curious if someone unilaterally decided that people not physically in the uk don’t matter.

Doesn't work from Australia either, so apparently the Commonwealth can get fucked. I imagine some middle-ranking civil servants at the FCO will, in a not-too-distant-future, be expressing a measure of dismay to their Home Office counterparts. Before which time, hopefully, the gov.uk folks will figure out how to selectively block access to live reporting channels, not the entire police service, in response to vexatiou…

>> You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page.

This is almost certainly an IT admin not bothering to read Cloudflare's documentation and leaving something on the wrong setting.

Number of customers who read documentation << number of customers, although it seems especially endemic in infosec.

Re: The UK government has blocked IPs

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Post by 486sx33 »

kypro wrote: post #4

For those unaware, the UK police are currently promising to go after people posting misinformation and retweeting content (including video of riots) that might incite hate. In response to this the UK police are being trolled on their live chats (largely by Americans I believe). I did originally post a link to these (you can find them on X), but given the content I don't want to risk it. I'm assuming they're now block…

I hereby assert that the queen is still alive . Am I now guilty of an offense?

Re: The UK government has blocked IPs

#16

Post by krapp »

486sx33 wrote: post #15
kypro wrote: post #4

For those unaware, the UK police are currently promising to go after people posting misinformation and retweeting content (including video of riots) that might incite hate. In response to this the UK police are being trolled on their live chats (largely by Americans I believe). I did originally post a link to these (you can find them on X), but given the content I don't want to risk it. I'm assuming they're now block…

I hereby assert that the queen is still alive . Am I now guilty of an offense?

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Re: The UK government has blocked IPs

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Post by ethbr1 »

486sx33 wrote: post #15
kypro wrote: post #4

For those unaware, the UK police are currently promising to go after people posting misinformation and retweeting content (including video of riots) that might incite hate. In response to this the UK police are being trolled on their live chats (largely by Americans I believe). I did originally post a link to these (you can find them on X), but given the content I don't want to risk it. I'm assuming they're now block…

I hereby assert that the queen is still alive . Am I now guilty of an offense?

Depends. How do you feel about her?

Re: The UK government has blocked IPs

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Post by OJFord »

inopinatus wrote: post #6
protosam wrote: post #2

I blindly clicked this expecting an article about the matter. Was kinda surprised to be given a live demonstration. I can reach nhs.uk fine. Edit: searching Google, there are recent reports that make me feel like this is their response to being too incompetent to process cyber crime reports. I’m genuinely curious if someone unilaterally decided that people not physically in the uk don’t matter.

Doesn't work from Australia either, so apparently the Commonwealth can get fucked. I imagine some middle-ranking civil servants at the FCO will, in a not-too-distant-future, be expressing a measure of dismay to their Home Office counterparts. Before which time, hopefully, the gov.uk folks will figure out how to selectively block access to live reporting channels, not the entire police service, in response to vexatiou…

I'm not saying it makes complete sense, but I'm not sure I understand why it bothers you that much? I'm not sure how many times I've visited police.uk in my (British) life, probably a few, but I'm pretty sure it's zero for police.au or whatever it is.

Re: The UK government has blocked IPs

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Post by ethbr1 »

benmmurphy wrote: post #12
kypro wrote: post #4

For those unaware, the UK police are currently promising to go after people posting misinformation and retweeting content (including video of riots) that might incite hate. In response to this the UK police are being trolled on their live chats (largely by Americans I believe). I did originally post a link to these (you can find them on X), but given the content I don't want to risk it. I'm assuming they're now block…

the wild thing is in the UK private citizens can bring about criminal prosecutions. section 179 is a hornets nest waiting to be poked. in the UK prosecutors are not a bulwark against bad law. the courts would need to thread the needle to protect freedom of speech for elites but allow suppression for plebs. > at the time of sending it, the person intended the message, or the information in it, to cause non-trivial psy…

As an American, watching the UK government wrestle with "free speech, except when we disagree with it" is a fun pastime.

It's definitely not a right if it disappears when it's inconvenient.

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