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City of London Police Take Down Proxy Service Over Piracy Concerns
Mr_Silver writes TorrentFreak is reporting that the City of London Police (a private police force in government-backed livery with an authority that does not go beyond the corporate-controlled City of London area — so not to be confused with the Metropolitan Police) has seized control of a number of domains including Immunicity, a general proxy server that was set up as a censorship circumvention tool. This appears to be their next step after placing banner adverts on websites.
Do they have a Corporate Congress yet?
Do any natural persons own any property in the City anymore?
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My own bloody private police force!
Of what Londinium has become.
The police, who wants to fight piracy which is claimed to be happening by the corporations, go bust servers with neither warrants nor court orders. What exactly are making these claims legit enough to skip due process? Or is due process some sort of privilege that we shouldn't expect them in the first place?
do we want someone to be able to control the conduct of private citizens and organizations or do we not want? also who in their right mind truly believes each and every square foot of he world should be controlled by an organization that isn't the public, who's only purpose is to circumvent private individuals conduct enabling someone else to force their ideals and control onto them?
today's world, we shouldn't have to follow someone elses rule and I think it's time we rose up to fight government having any authority to regulate private citizens business. and this means taking away governments right to seed us messages, to confiscate our computers, to regular what people can and cannot say or do, etc.
I am generally only for laws that directly allow the protection of life but only as far as to prevent an actual murder or something. nothing else.
Stop forcing YOUR ideals down everyone's throats, mother fuckers!
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I know it's bad form to provide accurate information on Slashdot but the City of London police are not private at all. Indeed the Wikipedia page linked to in the summary states that it's a govt entity on the very first page.
I apologise in advance for being accurate.
The City of London Police Force is not a private police force, its a public body that receives government funding and is the same as any other police force in the UK, bar the fact that it doesn't have an elected police commissioner. It answers to Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary just like any other police force. The reason its separate from the Metropolitan Police Force is nothing more than a historical curiosity rather than anything to create conspiracy theories about.
There does seem to be an attempt here on Slashdot, in this story and past stories, to cast the City of London Police in a false light.
Regarding the authority "issue" - the City of London Police seizing a domain name is no different to the Metropolitan Police seizing it, the jurisdictional "issues" are the same. The reason the City of London Police are doing this a lot is because they are highly specialised in economic crime detection, investigation and enforcement, so combating criminal level copyright infringement is in fact one of their specialities.
The City of London is a borough of greater London. It is an ordinary government district and the police force for the City of London is a normal, governmental police force. What a fucking pile of hogwash this summary is.
CoLP, while not actually private, is the closest you can get to a law system controlled solely by it's corporate backers. Since there are no actual people in the city, just corporations and commuters, there is no such thing as public scrutiny or pursuit of the public interest, their agenda is written solely by private interests. Coupled with private prosecution, it rounds up to a nice libertarian-fascist justice system.
Instead of "corporate cops" they are STORM TROOPERS to ensure that everyone's privacy will no longer be hidden away from the corporate prying eyes
Those proxy servers are there to help people from authoritarian countries in circumventing censorship - and the action of the STORM TROOPERS means the civil liberties of those people be damned !
CoLP, while not actually private, is the closest you can get to a law system controlled solely by it's corporate backers. Since there are no actual people in the city, just corporations and commuters, there is no such thing as public scrutiny or pursuit of the public interest, their agenda is written solely by private interests. Coupled with private prosecution, it rounds up to a nice libertarian-fascist justice system.
You still believe that due process is still practised in England or America or France ??
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The owner of Immuncity was arrested yesterday as well.
City of London Police (a private police force in government-backed livery with an authority that does not go beyond the corporate-controlled City of London area — so not to be confused with the Metropolitan Police)
The poster didn't read the Wiki on the City of London Police;
The City of London Police is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement within the City of London, including the Middle and Inner Temples.
The police authority is the Common Council of the City,
The Common Council of the City is an elected body. The City of London police is also publicly funded.
What may confuse you Americans is that most British cities have "corporation" in their official name. For example, I live near "The Corporation of the District of Sannich".
The City of London Police is overseen by an elected body and funded through taxes. It is not a private police force. I think that was just a transparent attempt to sensationalize a news story.
This City of London?
Surely there must be a precedent to request ICANN suspend the City of London Polices domain names for the following reasons (Among others).
Masquerading as a legal authority.
submitting false take-down requests.
Blackmail and Extortion.
Hacking and social engineering.
Making threats to other hosting companies.
Their own website allows them to perpetuate the myth about what they are, and someone needs to get it suspended post-haste, to prevent any future victims of their social engineering tactics.
You actually found a place where people hate you and are trying to change how people see you.
Look at all those mentions to Wikipedia. Classic disinfo posting methods.
Good job, City of London.
What people in the US would know as Corporations are Limited Companies here.
No they are employees of the City of London Corporation which is not in any sense a government entity nothing to do with the government of the UK.
Control of the city of london (the inner old city) is held by some of the corporations with offices there.
When the police force of that 'city' starts giving itself wider jurisdiction over the UK and world, at that point it becomes painfully clear that we need to re-examine this exemption from UK Parliamentary supremacy. We can't have this little 'exception' to UK rule, order the UK and the World around.
They're not subject to democratic limits, and don't answer to the wider democracy, so their special status needs to be removed.
City of London is not part of the UK, it has its own electoral system and its own government.
That police force answers to the City of London Corporation.
That police force is threatening the sovereignty of the UK and wider world.
So we need to take back the City of London from the corporate entity that controls it, and bring that police force back within the wider laws of the UK.
Here are two facets that I have tons of experience with that will make this test inaccurate unless both are handled somehow. 1. Our physical thinking on a physical level may consist in more than what occurs on the cranial level. The connections in our arms, down our spine, and across our body may play key roles, and the brain may not consistently always run the same, it may go through cycles. By focusing on the brain too much instead of the entire body and diet, incorrect results are likely. 2. In my experience when I use various supplemental methods, I can increase my brain power by orders of magnitude for varying periods of time. A normal scan would likley not pick these up if I just turn them off during the scan resulting in false readings. I believe anyone is capable of this, but most people do not do this (or know how). As a summary a test like this may mis-gauge one's cranial or intelligence capacity by missing out on some key factors. I can list more, but I have other pressing matters to attend to at present.
And an error in some of slashdots code can push this comment from one article to another. rofl! Sorry bout that, someone check for errors serverside!
if that is really the case, the logical conclusion is to confiscate all the citizen's computers.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Total crap
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Jew bankers. What a surprise. Jew nation-wreckers, who have to silence dissent, in case anybody tells their 'cattle' what the slaveowners are up to.
http://balder.org/judea/Hate-Speech-Laws-Immigration-Jewish-Influence-Britain.php
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etc.etc. It's ALL OVER the internet, the truth about the Jewish takeover of our countries, try doing some research.
I'm at work (I work in UK local government) and tried to read the boing boing article for a bit of background. Which brought up this message
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Access Denied
You have attempted to access the following web page :
http://boingboing.net/2013/07/28/defeat-uks-great-firewall-of.html
Access has been blocked because:
Tru-View has categorised this page as Proxy Avoidance.
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Maybe talking about proxy avoidance counts as proxy avoidance? And I've checked and http://boingboing.net/ is not itself blocked.
"The National Arbitration Forum has just handed down its decision in respect to the three domain names locked down at Public Domain Registry in response to the City of London Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit takedown requests. The decision is in favour of easyDNS and orders the three names to be transferred to us. - See more at: http://blog.easydns.org/2014/0...
Do you wanna be, do you really wanna be a cop?
when I use various supplemental methods,
It appears that you've posted from either Colorado or Washington State.
It is blocked in ENTIRE england! Not just London!
Proxies evade attempts to restrict Internet content by geographic location. I had to use one on our big trip to Europe this spring, when I needed to stream a few missed network TV episodes from their conventional US sites. Not that I particularly wanted to watch TV on vacation, but these episodes would have "expired" and been removed by the time we got back. But not only is there a stupid nonsensical time restriction on accessing TV content, but a stupid nonsensical restriction against accessing them outside the US. This is what I evaded by using a proxy.
So why is Airstrip One joining the War On Proxies? Because the BBC offers a georestricted app called iPlayer to its TV customers, and they don't want people from being able to access their content from outside the country any more than Hollywood does.
Quite a few people won't understand what the City of London is about, since it comprises the financial district of the U.K., and goes back before the Norman Conquest (1066, which is probably why they were graned special rights above all others). Although this is supposition on my part (and others) it is thought to go back to the time of the Roman Empire, when they occupied ares of the British Isles, and established various short-term corporations to undertake various infrastructure building missions.
Now the City of London is owned by the City of London Corporation, which not only is the oldest but continuous existing corporation in the Western Hemisphere, if not the planet. They control the City of London Police, and the Queen, prior to entering that district, must first have a royal audience with the Lord High Mayor of London (as opposed to the other mayor, the mayor of the entire city of London) --- this has long been traditional and sacrosanct.
The City of London Corporation also has the oldest and continuous existing financial investment fund (forgot their name for it, sorry), and several bits of circumstantial evidence only, suggests they invested in some backward street and real estate in New Amsterdam, later to be known as Wall Street of New York City.
Now many may wonder about the relationship between the British royals and the City of London Corporation? Sometime around the early 1700s, the CoLC bought off the royal family by offering them, in perpetuity, leases on the choicest real estate throughout London, and outlying areas, based upon the cheapest discount RE rates of that day --- in other words, the CoLC leased out those lands to the royals, for a few shillings, a rate never to change, while the royals in turn would lease and rent out those lands and abodes for massive amounts over the centuries, especially in modern times.
Of course, this perpetuity thing was changed some years back, so now (I believe) it is only for 2,000 more years!
If you believe this to be farfetched, simply read a UK travel book or brochure some time, which is where I originally learned of this.
Oh, yes, shortly after this lease deal was sealed between the royals the CoLC, the Bank of England was established. (Think that may have been part of the deal?)
My, my the government filth are in here in force - posting and up-rating their posts to '5' with the co-operation of DICE.
So-called piracy-assisting 'blocked' sites in the UK are simply sites that the same Hollywood types that who-heartedly supported the genocide in Gaza, have gained injunctions against in UK courts entirely operated by their zionist mates. But these 'injunctions' merely prohibit SPECIFIC named ISPs from allowing their users to have access from the UK.
There is no 'crime' in the UK of providing proxy-access to these sites, if one is not a named party of an injunction. And remember, not one of the sites concerned HOSTS 'illegal' content. Some of the sites blocked are just search-engines like Google (but without Google's 'tribal' clout).
There is NO SUCH CRIME as aiding and abetting 'piracy' in the UK- curious given every post claiming otherwise in this thread has been given a score of FIVE?! Britain has general conspiracy laws, as do most other nations- and the bar for conspiracy is high. Running a site that 'appears' to provide visitors with 'illegal' content (via auto-links), while gaining income from ads on the same site, can get you successfully prosecuted in the UK, even though current law says otherwise. Running a site that merely 'links', but allows .members' to semantically tag links as desired 'pirate' content' may now get people successfully convicted in the UK (even though again, no specific law covers this), but the first cases are only now being fought.
Doesn't matter. In the UK, the police make up the law. This frequently means juicy pay-offs for citizens abused by such scummy police tactics several years down the road. For instance, the same filthy police unit illegally harassing the kid for providing a proxy service illegally arrested and attempted to prosecute protesters at the UK's regular 'ARMS FAIR' in London, where the world's worst arms dealers attempt to sell to the world's worst regimes. The arrests (although praised by the same people praising this police action- with scores of FIVE) were illegal, and those arrested eventually received compensation. But the arrests still served their purpose, and far fewer people in London dare to exercise their rights this way today.
I for one would like to congratulate the City of London Police.
Yes, some may argue that there are still some little rascals roaming free out there, such as rapists, murderers, drug dealers, etc.
But I'm sure the majority will join me in congratulating the taxpayer funded force for protecting us against truly despicable criminals, namely scumbags that #you might want to cover your children ears# #no really, what follows is genuinely disturbing beyond belief# facilitate the download of copyrighted material #GASP, well I did warn you#.
I'm sure the judge will lock this guy for life, so that the honest public can finally roams the streets at night safely. If no space is available, can I recommend to follow the usual strategy, namely move a psychopath to an open prison or release him altogether.
Bullshit.