My ISP is deciding what I can access...

My ISP decided that:

Dear Customer,
We have a legal obligation and a responsibility to ensure that our subscribers are not able to reach sites which are barred by law or that are likely to cause malicious damage to their online reputation or devices.
You have tried to access a site at https://******** which we consider to be harmful.

and that's it.
It's neither illegal not malicious, but it is ISP not I who decides what I can do.
I can appeal, but...
it definitely feels like police state

What do you think?

In reply to a post by bambuko:

My ISP decided that:

Dear Customer,
We have a legal obligation and a responsibility to ensure that our subscribers are not able to reach sites which are barred by law or that are likely to cause malicious damage to their online reputation or devices.
You have tried to access a site at https://******** which we consider to be harmful.

and that's it.
It's neither illegal not malicious, but it is ISP not I who decides what I can do.
I can appeal, but...
it definitely feels like police state

What do you think?

Without knowing what type of site you was trying to get to, its hard for anyone to really comment.

sorry, you are right:

It's a transfer webpage:
https://filetransfer.io

I am guessing that it is not the website but the fact that download data is in.zip format?

I wouldn't mind a warning, at which point I say I know what doing, thank you but get lost.
But to simply stop me having access to files I need is a bit over the top?

Change ISP (unless it’s the legal requirement) or read up on DOH or DOT.

Which ISP? Their legal basis seems pretty weak.

In reply to a post by DrBob:

Change ISP ...

I would but,
a - I worry that most of them behave nowadays in similar manner
b - where I live there are not that many options...

In reply to a post by behuk:

Which ISP? Their legal basis seems pretty weak.

Agree, about legal basis...
that's why I am asking here

https://www.airband.co.uk/

I am on Airband FTTP. I have just clicked on your link only visited ther homepage,, now I wonder if I will get a letter...

Thanks for the warning, I must remember to enable my VPN before visiting "dodgy" sites.

In reply to a post by TimJ:

Thanks for the warning, I must remember to enable my VPN before visiting "dodgy" sites.

Unless I am having senior moment, I don't know what warning are you talking about.
The transfer site I have linked is not "dodgy"

and... I am still waiting for Airband to pull their finger out of their [censored] and reply to me

They shouldn't know what sites you're accessing if it's HTTPS, maybe they can if you're using the ISP DNS servers or they are intercepting DNS traffic somewhere. Look at DNS over HTTPS.

If the 'dodgy' site is the only thing on a certain IP address then that might make it easier, but the message they sent you seems to suggest they know what domain you visited.

Edited by jpm (Tue 25-Apr-23 17:56:52)