Posts by Spades 4 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Jun 2012
How's that supposed to help their retentions department stopping customers from leaving? The only reason they can shaft existing customers like this is because it's easier to give yourself an organ transplant than it is to move between LLU providers.
I'd be tempted by an 18month contract but I'd want to know what happens to my contract when FTTC comes to my area in September.
I've a lot of respect for TalkTalk as they fought against this but I wish they'd use the word CENSORED rather than blocked. "Blocked" sounds a lot less innocuous than "Censored". Let's be honest about it - the internet is being censored to protect the commercial interests.
If the Pirate Bay is doing something wrong then deal with the site, deal with the users - censoring the internet makes us no better than China when it comes to the internets. In fact I'd say it makes us worse, at least China censor the internet under the guise of maintaining social cohesion, our internet connections are being censored because it's the easiest way to protect the bottom line.
First they came for the pirate bay, and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a pirate bay user..... and so on.
First time poster and long term TalkTalk user - despite their awful faults handling process I've remained loyal due to their attitude towards and willingness to fight against the media industries.
However - I hope that one of the ISP will create an honest page to present users who access these sites. I'd like to see the word "Censored" appeared. "This site has been censored by order of the *courts/UK government on *behalf of/due to legal action by <insert media organisation here>".
*delete as applicable.
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