A UK internet service provider famous around the country has prohibited its 5.7 million customers from accessing a website that promotes suicide.
Sky Broadband states that standard filters will result in the forum being blocked automatically for domestic users.
TalkTalk stated that the contentious website has been included in their list of inadmissible material and can be restricted by customers.
As a result of a BBC investigation, it has been demonstrated that there is a correlation between the forum and more than 50 fatalities in the UK.
We made public last week that British authorities had neglected to take action on notices regarding a specific website, which shall not be named. This website is available for anyone to access online, including youngsters.
Relatives who had lost someone had sent letters to internet service providers in the UK asking them to prevent access to the forum.
Sky Broadband - the second largest ISP in the nation - has now made it known that the forum has been included in the websites that are hindered by its Sky Broadband Shield safety filter, constituting an automatic setting on residential routers.
The company stated that they had acted with the greatest speed and had shut down the online forum "instantly".
TalkTalk, which has roughly four million users, informed the BBC that it would block any visitor with its HomeSafe safety filter activated - since it was not able to automatically block the site.
We acknowledge our obligation to ensure that our customers have a sense of protection and security when they are using the internet, it continued.
After the BBC inquiry was revealed, the administrators of the contentious pro-suicide online platform wrote a statement on its homepage indicating that UK digital regulator Ofcom had "warned to inhibit the website under the freshly passed Online Safety Bill".
"We cannot be any less concerned," the article went on, and urged British users to petition their elected representatives against this "severe" regulation.
David Parfett's son Tom, 22, tragically took his own life in 2021, after coming across instructions on the forum.
Mr Parfett expressed his response to Sky Broadband's decision, stating that it made him emotional. He further noted his relief, as well as his fury that Tom might still be alive had the website been regulated a couple of years ago. His objective, he stated, was to prevent other individuals from being incited into taking their own lives.
In 2020, the family of Joe Nihill (aged 23) were left with a request from him to close down a website forum, following his death.
Catherine Adenekan, his mother, and Melanie Saville, his sister-in-law, stated that other internet service providers should exemplify the precedent set by Sky Broadband.
We both consider it vital that access is being constrained to restrict others from locating it - a progression in the correct direction.
The BBC pinpointed Lamarcus Small as one of those behind the website and managed to locate him at his abode in Huntsville, Alabama in the United States. He declined to respond to any queries; however, a profile linked to Mr Small on the contentious platform “Kiwi Farms” has since commented about the BBC’s discoveries.
The UK's plan to block the site won't make any real difference, according to the post: "My being chased all-over isn't going to solve the mental health crisis. Taking the site offline won't either."
Mr Parfett commented in reply to the post, expressing that those who cheer for death have no place in a civilized world.
Last week, the government's Online Safety Bill, which intends to make the internet a safer place, was passed into law - granting Ofcom additional authority.
In a statement, Ofcom declared to BBC News: "We are equipped with a wide-ranging selection of enforcement powers to guarantee that services who don't meet our standards are answerable".
Subsequently, Spotify has discontinued the use of a "social login" option on their forum.
A "social login" enables users of an app to sign up or log in to a third party website quickly and easily, by utilizing their existing username and password.
BBC News discovered a "social login" button on a pro-suicide forum belonging to Spotify, and reached out to the music app for comment.
Spotify has declared that the feature was enabled by an outside developer, without having the company's authorization. This contravened Spotify's terms of use. The organization stated: "Once we were aware of this situation, we cut off access to the website in question promptly, and the button is no longer active.".
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