The UK government has blocked IPs

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.

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 blocking IPs because of the abuse.

This started yesterday when the police said they have officers looking through social media for offences, https://x.com/ElijahKyama_/status/1821180825007763660/video/...

But heated up again today after a 55 year old women was arrested for posting inaccurate information to social media, https://www.cheshire.police.uk/news/cheshire/news/articles/2...

I'm currently waiting for a knock at my door along with 65 million of Brits who have posted inaccurate information online from time to time.

Legal note: if anything I have said here is inaccurate I was unaware of it at the time of posting.

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 vexatious abuse.

Prank emergency calls from children have been a hassle since time immemorial, and I see these circumstances as entirely corresponding, merely at scale; I'd even express surprise if this is a first for online British police channels.

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Yeah I'm blocked too, New Zealand here