> You need another exit aside from London. U.K. has weak data protections, facilitates U.S. spying, doesn't even offer access to the real internet any more (they run a firewall and mandate various other kinds of nannying), and, generally, seems like it's sliding down the path towards some sort of oppressive surveillance state.
"UK mobile phone operators began filtering Internet content in 2004[9] when Ofcom published a "UK code of practice for the self-regulation of new forms of content on mobiles".[107] This provided a means of classifying mobile Internet content to enable consistency in filtering. All major UK operators now voluntarily filter content by default."
It's Wikipedia, so take it with a grain of salt, but...
Actually to save everyone else's time I'll explain the actual real world implications:
The "big 4" (over x customers) must implement "best effort" blocking, which varies between network (it's all useless because DNS is easy and satisfied the law), however unlike the USA, the UK has 100s if not 1000s of ISPs who are not subject to said regulation and can do what they want. This is because in the UK we do not stomp on competition which means independent ISPs are allowed to exist and pay the same price as everyone else for the same access.
While I'm here, there has never and never will be a "firewall" - the free market design of UK telecoms does not allow it to happen and there are no central points to filter, anyone who disagrees otherwise is a genuine moron or willfully ignorant, it doesn't matter the result is the same, since the reality trump's opinion.
If you'd like to discuss these things in real detail I have contact ability so message me instead of absolute nonsense on here - there is no excuse to be ignorant we live in an informational society.
What? No such thing exists, stop