FYI, it's the same on First Hull Trains.

Interestingly, CrossCountry don't block Commons, and they're owned by the same company as Chiltern (unless that's changed recently?).

As Fae says, East Midlands Trains (when the WiFi works!) don't block Commons, and East Coast likewise. I've not been on First Great western for years so I don't know about them; I'm not sure any other train companies have WiFi (Northern Rail and First Transpenine Express certainly don't).

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On Wednesday, 15 January 2014, 0:49, Sarah Noble <sarah@sarahlicity.co.uk> wrote:

There may be some "for bandwidth reasons" excuse that Chiltern use to block Commons; that's why East Coast block imgur (and YouTube) after all. If you can get their wifi to work.

What's the reason for blocking Grindr anyway, Fae? And would they also block, say, okcupid?

On 14 January 2014 20:47, Fć <faewik@gmail.com> wrote:

Normally the blocking page gives you a link to write to as this is
often contracted out. I believe most of these filtering services try
to respond to reasonable unblocking requests.

East Midland trains are fine for Wikimedia projects but block
Wikipediocracy (hurrah). I'll not be bothering to write to them about
unblocking Wikipediocracy and though they also block Grindr, I think
most lads use their mobile data for socializing.

On 14 January 2014 20:26, Andy Mabbett <andy@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote:
> For some time, Chiltern Trains free Wi-Fi has been blocking Wikimedia
> Commons, as:
>
> This site was categorized in: Photo Sharing,
> File Storage, Software/Technology, Research/
> Reference, Non-Profits, Visual Search Engines
>
> Wikipedia, including its commons-hosted images, is not blocked. I have
> reached out to them more than once on Twitter to ask for an unblock,
> or who to speak to about requesting one, but they have never replied.
>
> Apart from e-mailing them ,which I shall do shortly, what other action
> might we take, as a community? Do any of you have contacts in the
> organisation?
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