{"id":5287,"date":"2017-06-16T13:52:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T20:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=5287"},"modified":"2021-07-22T02:56:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T09:56:14","slug":"britains-isps-already-censor-political-opinions-they-just-randomly-happen-to-disagree-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/britains-isps-already-censor-political-opinions-they-just-randomly-happen-to-disagree-with\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain’s ISPs already censor political opinions they just randomly happen to disagree with"},"content":{"rendered":"

British Internet providers already censor political opinions they don\u2019t like. Specifically, they censor this blog by default, which is trivial to verify<\/a>, thanks to Open Rights Group<\/a>. This blog isn\u2019t a random corporate blog; it builds political opinion in favor of net liberty and net neutrality, and frequently against the old telco dinosaurs. Therefore, it\u2019s a huge red flag when those same dinosaurs prevent people from accessing it at all.<\/p>\n

As Caleb Chen has written here before<\/a>, some of Britain\u2019s ISPs have decided to censor this entire VPN service off the visible Internet for their customers: people who try to access Private Internet Access are essentially told that the page doesn\u2019t exist, is censored, is illegal, or is otherwise shady. That\u2019s outrageous in itself \u2013 the notion that an ISP can take itself the right to determine which other businesses, well, exist<\/em>. It\u2019s especially concerning when the blocked services are absolutely vital for whistleblowing and other core democratic safeguards.<\/p>

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Sky and O2 in Britain don\u2019t let people read political opinion pieces, such as pieces in favor of net neutrality, on this blog. Above the result of a political piece, courtesy of a block check service made by our friends at Open Rights Group.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

But there\u2019s more to it. Private Internet Access is also running this very blog, which promotes various liberty aspects. We\u2019re not just a random VPN company, we happen to be passionate activists who run a VPN company as a way to create sustainable liberty. This is not about the money. This is about liberty, anonymity, privacy, and human rights to us. Therefore, you could argue that the entire company is political \u2013 in the good sense \u2013 but at the very least, no matter how you turn it, this blog certainly is. This is where we argue for anonymity, where we report on political events, and where we talk to our brothers and sisters on the barricades.<\/p>\n

Therefore, it is undeniably the case that the UK now has default-on censorship for political opinions. That\u2019s not particularly flattering.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But there\u2019s more to this. There are two important twists to this story.<\/p>\n

The first twist to this story is that this is a site and a blog heavily in favor of net neutrality, something that telco-luggage ISPs are vehemently against in order to protect their obsolete copperline luggage. Therefore, it\u2019s in their business interest to censor this particular site.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So while it can absolutely be argued that it just \u201chappens\u201d to be opinions these telcos disagree with that get \u201caccidentally\u201d censored as an unfortunate side effect of censoring an entire VPN company, it\u2019s undeniably the case that a VPN company will, one way or another, always push these political values, and so it should be foreseeable. It\u2019s also a very convenient coincidence that the default censorship just happens<\/em> to censor out opinions that go against the business interest of those actually doing the censoring. To be frank, even if it\u2019s accidental and unintended, it leaves a very bad taste.<\/p>\n

The second twist is that if the net neutrality we argue in favor of were abolished, we would see more of this behavior openly \u2013 your telco-luggage ISP selecting your opinions for you, without even trying to say it\u2019s accidental. It would be portrayed as \u201cfamily friendly\u201d, \u201cethical\u201d, or some other whitewashing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If net neutrality were abolished, we\u2019d see exactly this, and much more<\/em> of this \u2013 your ISP essentially being free to serve you only that part of reality that they agreed with, and let you think opposing viewpoints did not exist. The notion that it already exists at all is sickening. The notion that a legalization of this is one political decision away is frightening.<\/p>\n

Privacy remains your own responsibility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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