A British government agency reportedly marked the anniversary of one of the worst 21st Century terrorist attacks by suppressing information on the terrorists and victims.
Just ahead of the massacre’s two-year anniversary, Israel’s Ministry for Diaspora Affairs and the Fight Against Antisemitism launched a new website called october7files.com to expose “Missing October 7 Files documents and evidence that reveal the engineered terror behind the massacre.” But, according to a screenshot circulated on X, the U.K. National Cyber Security Centre blocked the site on Oct. 6.
Visegrád 24, a popular Hungarian news outlet, posted Oct. 6 on X, “The UK blocks a new page launched by the Israeli authorities in connection with the 2nd anniversary of the October 7th Massacre[.] The page documents the atrocities perpetrated by Hamas that day.” The outlet included a screenshot from a user named Alex James showing a notification from the U.K. National Cyber Security Centre over the Oct. 7 website. “This site may be associated with malicious activity or malware,” the Centre’s message asserted, per the screenshot. The Centre’s notification added, “Access to this site has been blocked by the Protective DNS Service.”
This is the same Protective Domain Name Service (PDNS) which, according to the Centre’s website, “is a recursive DNS resolver which prevents access to domains known to be malicious.” It is not clear why the Israeli webpage was classified as malicious or if the U.K. government entity has since corrected its censorship of the page.
In recent months, the U.K. government has been enforcing an anti-free speech crackdown across the country, with the New York Post estimating in August that up to 30 British citizens are arrested every day for public and online speech. In fact, Irish comedy writer Graham Linehan, who now lives in the U.S., was arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport last month for posts criticizing transgender activists which he had written in America.
X Global Government Affairs criticized the U.K. in August, posting, “The UK's Online Safety Act, while intended to protect users, risks severe infringement on freedom of speech by empowering regulators to mandate broad content removal. Platforms face immense pressure to over-censor legal expression to avoid hefty fines, stifling open discourse and individual liberties worldwide.” MRC’s Tom Olohan and Gabriela Pariseau wrote also in an August op-ed for The Daily Caller, “The UK government arrested over 12,000 people in 2022 and 2023 under two of the country’s speech policing laws.”
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