<story><title>UK telecom EE blocks archive.org</title><url>https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2022/05/06/uk-is-over-the-edge-archive-org-blocked-at-the-telecom-level/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>dlivingston</author><text>Looking into this a bit more, this seems like a classic case of “much ado about nothing.”&lt;p&gt;The situation as I understand it:&lt;p&gt;1. A UK telecom company, EE, has an optional (!!) parental control feature, which blocks websites based on a user-selected threshold [0]&lt;p&gt;2. Archive.org was added to this block-list. This makes sense at first glance: as an exercise to the reader, go to archive.org and type in the URL of your favorite porn website.&lt;p&gt;3. This is all user-controllable and is disabled by default.&lt;p&gt;Yeah, assuming I have my facts right, this seems like a big, fat, nothing burger. Please correct me if I’ve misanalysed.&lt;p&gt;[0] : &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ee.co.uk&amp;#x2F;help&amp;#x2F;help-new&amp;#x2F;safety-and-security&amp;#x2F;content-lock&amp;#x2F;switching-content-lock-on-or-off&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ee.co.uk&amp;#x2F;help&amp;#x2F;help-new&amp;#x2F;safety-and-security&amp;#x2F;content-l...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>UK telecom EE blocks archive.org</title><url>https://virtuallyfun.com/wordpress/2022/05/06/uk-is-over-the-edge-archive-org-blocked-at-the-telecom-level/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Sevan777</author><text>archive.org is still blocked by 2 mobile telcos &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.blocked.org.uk&amp;#x2F;site&amp;#x2F;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.blocked.org.uk&amp;#x2F;site&amp;#x2F;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;archive.org&lt;/a&gt;
It was blocked by more around 2019, including by Three. Had to do the same dance to get restrictions lifted so that I could visit a library, then the rep offered me a special deal on increasing my monthly data transfer quota &amp;quot;for streaming videos&amp;quot;.
Despite an &amp;quot;unrestricted&amp;quot; account, I still cannot connect to tor bridges and telegram (according to OONI tests &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ooni.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ooni.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;)</text></comment>