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I think it's worth mentioning that the company that did this (Andrews and Arnold) is one of the few UK isps to provide unfiltered internet access.

https://www.aaisp.net.uk/kb-broadband-unfiltered.html

"It is part of the terms and made clear at sign up that you are opting out of all filtering in the network, including any government mandated or requested filtering. You have an active choice on this - you can choose to take unfiltered service from us or not to take service from us."

(If you didn't know, most of the other UK isps have default on parental filters, and respond to government takedown requests to block domains. Pirate bay and it's many proxys are routinely blocked. I'm not in support of illegal downloading, but I'm even less in support of government censorship)

Their previous "active choice" wording from a few years ago ( https://boingboing.net/2013/07/29/uk-isps-active-choice-on.h... ):

> If you choose "censored" you are advised: "Sorry, for a censored internet you will have to pick a different ISP or move to North Korea. Our services are all unfiltered. Is that a good enough active choice for you Mr Cameron?"

A&A is also, to my knowledge, the only XKCD/806 compliant ISP: http://www.revk.uk/2010/10/xkcd806-compliance.html (ref: https://xkcd.com/806/ )