Virgin Mobile leaves six million subscriber accounts wide open

Re:Virgin Mobile leaves six million subscriber accounts wide... by ryankask on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @03:43AM (#4536882)

I just sent this link to my partner who is a Virgin Mobile customer.

She couldn't open the page on her mobile browser. She said it said something like "Restricted by Virgin."

Seems a bit strange. I will ask her to try again later.

EDIT: Kevin is actually talking about Virgin Mobile in the US. His domain, however, is inaccessible to my partner who uses Virgin Mobile UK ("adult restriction").

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Re:Virgin Mobile leaves six million subscriber accounts wide... by kevinburke on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @06:17AM (#4537265)

Wait. My website is blocked/censored in the UK? Can you email me with details?

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Re:Virgin Mobile leaves six million subscriber accounts wide... by ryankask on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @08:44AM (#4537641)

I sent your article to my partner this morning and she tried to access it on her phone on the Virgin Mobile UK network.

She couldn't access the article or your homepage. I just asked her to try again and it's being caught in their adult content filters or something. False positive? Maybe there is some adult content on the site?

Maybe another Virgin Mobile UK user can try it. They presumably would still have to have their content filters active.

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Re:Virgin Mobile leaves six million subscriber accounts wide... by RossM on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @06:57AM (#4537347)

It works for me on a non-Virgin IP. It may be Virgin Media (home broadband), or Virgin Mobile (mobile internet) that blocks it.

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Re:Virgin Mobile leaves six million subscriber accounts wide... by kevinburke on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @08:30AM (#4537598)

On what grounds? Can you provide more detail? Would rather not have the site be blocked if I can help it..

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Re:Virgin Mobile leaves six million subscriber accounts wide... by RossM on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @12:07PM (#4538841)

Sorry, I meant to point out that there are two possible ISPs that the user might have trouble accessing it on. To my knowledge, no UK ISP blocks content by an automatic or specific filter, aside from the Pirate Bay of course.

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Re:Virgin Mobile leaves six million subscriber accounts wide... by ionwake on Tuesday September 18, 2012 @09:03AM (#4537726)

ISPS in the UK are blocking sites as "mature" when they are not.

I have yet to see an outcry.

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