{"id":5165,"date":"2017-06-07T00:36:26","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T07:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=5165"},"modified":"2020-07-30T21:52:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T21:52:00","slug":"uk-isps-block-private-internet-access-default","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/uk-isps-block-private-internet-access-default\/","title":{"rendered":"Most UK ISPs block Private Internet Access by default"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VPN websites, like that of Private Internet Access, are actively being censored\u00a0by internet service providers (ISPs) in the United Kingdom (UK). The website\u00a0blocks were first put into place by UK ISPs on\u00a0government order in an effort to censor pornography in 2014. Since then, more ISPs have joined in default blocking. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/3dka5n\/the-uks-internet-filters-block-1-in-5-websites\">research<\/a> has shown that the blocks are overreaching \u2013 with 1 in 5 websites being blocked when the censorship program first rolled out. UK ISPs initially incorrectly blocked everything from civil rights blogs to used car sales sites; what\u2019s worse, these blocks are on by default.<\/p>\n<p>Open Rights Group, a London-based\u00a0organization, created a tool at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blocked.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blocked.org.uk<\/a> that allows you to check whether or not a website is being blocked by UK ISPs.\u00a0This crucial tool has revealed that most UK ISPs block Private Internet Access by default if the content\u00a0filter is on.<\/p>\n<p>Note: Sky and TalkTalk ship with \u201cdefault on\u201d filters while BT and Virgin Media still don\u2019t. This article originally mentioned AAISP as an ISP that blocked the https version of privateinternetaccess.com because test results on that day showed an error\/lack of connection, AAISP has since clarified that they do not have any default blocks.<\/p>\n<h2>The UK has millions of internet users, the majority of which can\u2019t access the PIA homepage<\/h2>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/businessindustryandtrade\/itandinternetindustry\/bulletins\/internetusers\/2017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Office of National Statistics<\/a>,\u00a0the percentage of the population\u00a0in the United Kingdom (UK) that has used the internet in the last 3 months is a whopping 89%. Internet penetration in the UK surpasses that of neighboring European countries and even the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the United Kingdom\u2019s internet users, close to 60 million total, are unable to access the Private Internet Access homepage, even if they can read this article on our blog. According to Blocked.org.uk, users of O2,\u00a0Sky, Virgin, and Three with adult filters on will be unable to access this site (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\">https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com<\/a>) while users of Vodafone and EE will also be unable to access this site (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/\">http:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com<\/a>). You can see the full results of the tests <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blocked.org.uk\/results?url=http:\/\/privateinternetaccess.com\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blocked.org.uk\/results?url=https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of the four UK ISPs (BT\/PlusNet\/EE, Sky Broadband, Virgin Media, and TalkTalk) with the most subscribers, three\u00a0are blocking Private Internet Access. Additionally, since\u00a0access to the internet through public wifi hotspots is largely provided by Arquiva, BT, Sky, Nomad, Virgin Media, and\u00a0O2, the vast majority of these users are unable to access Private Internet Access, either. Suffice to say, censorship\u00a0is still rampant in the UK. A new, more censored internet \u2013 as promised by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/theresa-may-outlines-tory-plan-create-new-censored-internet-controlled-uk-government\/\">Theresa May<\/a> \u2013 has already arrived.<\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: Private Internet Access is a financial supporter\u00a0of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openrightsgroup.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open Rights Group<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VPN websites, like that of Private Internet Access, are actively being censored\u00a0by internet service providers (ISPs) in the United Kingdom (UK). The website\u00a0blocks were first put into place by UK ISPs on\u00a0government order in an effort to censor pornography in 2014. Since then, more ISPs have joined in default blocking. However, research has shown that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/uk-isps-block-private-internet-access-default\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Most UK ISPs block Private Internet Access by default&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":5184,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":true,"_modified_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,130],"tags":[256,185,156,191],"class_list":["post-5165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-governments","tag-blocked-websites","tag-censorship-2","tag-net-neutrality","tag-united-kingdom"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Most UK ISPs block Private Internet Access by default<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"VPN websites, like that of Private Internet Access, are actively being censored\u00a0by internet service providers (ISPs) in the United Kingdom (UK). 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