Massive Overblocking Hits Hundreds Of UK Sites
Found on Techdirt on Thursday, 15 August 2013
Radio Times is a well-known UK TV and radio listings magazine; another major site affected was the citizen science project Zooniverse. As an Open Rights Group (ORG) post explains, the specific Radio Times address that was blocked was radiotimes.com, while www.radiotimes.com continued to function
As ORG surmised, the problem arose from a UK court decision handed down last month that allowed the Football Association Premier League Limited to block FirstRow Sports, a site for live-streaming sports events.
At first they silenced those who oppose the censorship by saying that it's required to fight child abuse and terrorism, trying to place them on the evil side. Now some football league can easily block innocents sites. That's how it always works: use some killer phrase to silence critics and then use the censorship for whatever you want.