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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
All the new anti-terrorist stuff that was brought in were soon "adapted" for other use (like catching people dropping litter out of cars). Blocking websites like this will be no different.
You only need to look at Google's transparency report to see how much stuff the UK government want to get rid of on the internet.
"We received a request from a local law enforcement agency to remove 14 search results for linking to sites that criticise the police ...
The number of content removal requests we received increased by 98% compared to the previous reporting period."
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What alternative would you suggest, given that the site itself lies outside the jurisdiction of the court? This has to be better than going after individual downloaders.