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More interestingly, O2 has not blocked access to its own site. That would be silly. It has, however, blocked access to http://www.giffgaff.co.uk, one of its competitors.

I've seen it claimed that it's blocked access to the Conservative Party's web site. Based on all this, that's a block I'd like to see remain in place.




O2 own giffgaff, so not exactly a competitor. Which makes it all the more of a facepalm.


Please don't joke about censoring political parties' websites. That is one of the biggest dangers of systems like this after all.


That will almost certainly be O2's whitelist opt-in blocklist option, which only allows access to sites that have been explicitly flagged as safe. This is not the blocklist that you'd be signed up to as the default option.




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