Thread: 100M The Pirate Bay is blocked
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Old 06-05-2012, 18:30   #187
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Re: The Pirate Bay is blocked (Discuss but do not post detail of how to get round it)
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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq View Post
You explicitly stated the exact opposite:
Wrong, again.

VM have no control over the content of any newsgroup which they do not run.

Unless you're telling me they can explicitly stop people from posting to, say, an MP3 newsgroup; which of course they can't.

They can censor or not carry that newsgroup but that's not the same thing. If there was a court order to block binary newsgroups they would have to comply with that too.

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Originally Posted by General Maximus View Post
they do to a certain degree because. Although the servers are 3rd party VM can choose not to allow access to porn groups or binaries as a whole if they wanted, not just VM groups.
Yes. That's true. They could block access to them but they don't because that would be censorship and they would, quite rightly IMO, attract a lot of "bad press" for it.
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