This is a list of websites blocked in the United Kingdom.
Sanctioned websites As part of UK sanctions against Russia, ISPs are required to take "reasonable steps to prevent" users accessing "an internet service provided by" a person or organisation sanctioned by the UK government. This effectively means blocking websites operated by such organisations. Organisations sanctioned are currently TV Novosti and Rossiya Segodnya. The websites currently listed by the UK government are:
rt.com sputniknews.com rossiyasegodnya.com
Court ordered implementations targeting copyright and trademark infringement Sites are blocked using various methods across the "Big 5" UK ISPs, in accordance with Section 97A of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, making it difficult to ascertain the extent to which a site is 'blocked' or not. In December 2014, the affected ISPs decided to publish more information about the blocking orders they received.
In the past, if a user visited a blocked site within the United Kingdom, they were forwarded to a website which included a list of blocked domains and court orders.
ISPs with over 400,000 subscribers subject to blocking orders include: BT Group EE Sky Broadband TalkTalk Virgin Media
Site name (s) Domain (s) or URL (s) Type of site (s) Reason (s) Was blocked by Implementation date The Pirate Bay File sharing Copyright BPI court order File sharing Copyright BPI court order Movie2k movie2k.to File sharing Copyright BBFC court order Download For All dl4all.com File sharing Copyright MPAA court order EZTV eztv.it File sharing Copyright MPAA court order First Row Sports firstrow1.eu Streaming Copyright Premier League court order File sharing Copyright BPI court order Copyright MPAA court order Streaming Copyright MPAA court order Streaming Copyright MPAA court order Various Luxury goods Counterfeit goods File sharing Copyright BPI court order File sharing Copyright MPAA court order File sharing Copyright BPI court order Ebook file sharing Copyright The Publishers Association court order Members of the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) StreamingCopyrightMembers of the MPA (Motion Picture Association of America Inc) Various target servers The Football Association Premier League Limited ("FAPL") (expired May 2017) Various target servers The Football Association Premier League Limited ("FAPL") Streaming and File Sharing CopyrightTwentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Universal City Studios Productions LLP Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Paramount Pictures Corporation Disney Enterprises, Inc. Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Nintendo Switch sitesCopyright2019Sci-Hubsci-hub.seScientific Journal and Article SharingCopyright NitroFlarenitroflare.comFile SharingCopyrightBPI court orderFebruary 2021StreamingCopyrightMPAA court orderOctober 2021StreamingCopyrightMPAA court orderStreamingCopyrightNintendo court order2021StreamingCopyrightMPAA court order2023File SharingCopyrightMPAA court orderJuly 2023Streaming and File SharingCopyrightMPAA court orderAugust 2023File SharingCopyrightMPAA court orderAugust 2023StreamingCopyrightMPAA court orderSeptember 2023
Indirect blocking In furtherance of the above-mentioned goal of restricting access to The Pirate Bay and similar sites, the BPI believes that "ISPs are required to block the illegal sites themselves, and proxies and proxy aggregators whose sole or predominant purpose is to give access to the illegal sites." As such, sites linking to sites which acted as proxies to The Pirate Bay were themselves added to the list of banned sites, including piratebayproxy.co.uk, piratebayproxylist.com and ukbay.org. This led to the indirect blocking (or hiding) of sites at the following domains, among others:
Resolved and erroneous blocks
Site name (s) Domain (s) or URL (s) Type of site (s) Reason (s) Blocked by Start date Resolution dateWikipediaVirgin Killer record album article on en.wikipedia.org Online encyclopedia Potentially indecent image of underage child Internet Watch Foundation (Unblocked by IWF) Wayback Machine archive.org Web archive Site incompatibility with Cleanfeed Internet Watch Foundation FileServe fileserve.com File hosting Mistake Internet Watch Foundation NewzBin2 newzbin.com later newzbin.es Usenet file search Copyright Motion Picture Association court order (Site closed) WordPress.com Several servers of wordpress.com Blog hosting Mistake ISP(s) TorrentFreak torrentfreak.com News site Technical implementation Premier League court order — Sky Broadband Radio Times and hundreds more radiotimes.com plus many more DNS provider and its customers Technical implementation Premier League court order Imgur Specific address range(s) used by imgur.com Image hosting Technical issue with content lock system EE (Technical problem resolved) WordPress.com Several servers of wordpress.com Blog hosting Mistake ISP(s) Imgur imgur.com Image hosting Technical implementation Sky Broadband WordPress.com Several servers of wordpress.com Blog hosting Mistake ISP(s) Imgur imgur.com Image hosting Technical fault Virgin Media Imgur imgur.com Image hosting Technical fault Virgin Media
See also Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) Censorship in the United Kingdom Computer and network surveillance Copyright infringement Copyright law of the United Kingdom Copyright law of the European Union Child abuse image content list Digital Economy Act 2010 Digital Economy Act 2017 File sharing in the United Kingdom Internet censorship in the United Kingdom Internet Watch Foundation and Wikipedia Legal aspects of file sharing Web blocking in the United Kingdom Internet in the United Kingdom
References
External links wiki.451unavailable.org.uk – The repository for UK court orders requiring domains, IP addresses and URLs to be blocked by Internet service providers. ukispcourtorders.co.uk – another list maintained by British Telecommunications PLC.