DVLA quietly pull all KKK number plates from their website

[JayUK91]

Couldn't find any discussion, or any news for that matter, about this besides some social murmurs and this blog article, but it turns out the DVLA have actually removed all registrations for sale containing the letters KKK from their website.

What do we think? About time, or a case of unnecessary censorship?

I assume any existing plates with these characters will still be legal to use? (not that I'm an advocate!)

Edited by JayUK91 on Saturday 30th January 17:17

[Scrump]

I couldn’t care less about it really, although Karen Kylie Kennedy might be a bit miffed if she is into cherished registrations.

[Bill]

Scrump said:

I couldn’t care less about it really

I don't suppose they sell many anyway.

[Pastor Of Muppets]

I used to have a CRX wth KKK on the plate about 15 years ago, nobody ever batted an eyelid at it
and was very rarely mentioned, nowadays though... might be different.

[SAS Tom]

What if you have a KKK turbo on your car?

[700XE]

What if I want to tell the world about my turbo?

[ahenners]

Saw a KKK plate quite recently and was surprised the DVLA hadn't already done this previously to be fair

[DanielSan]

There's plenty of harmless registrations that never get released because they might appear rude to the odd joyless toss piece and they never make the news either.

[Lee Jones Jnr]

Not news is it.
The only people that would care are s.

[993kimbo]

What is KKK?

[The Rotrex Kid]

993kimbo said:

What is KKK?

Really?

Or is this a ‘I’ve never heard of it’ PH cliche thing?

[Bill]

DanielSan said:

There's plenty of harmless registrations that never get released because they might appear rude to the odd joyless toss piece and they never make the news either.

Lee Jones Jnr said:

Not news is it.
The only people that would care are s.

Irony...

[0ddball]

Does the KKK even exist in the UK?

[V8 Stang]

The Rotrex Kid said:

993kimbo said:

What is KKK?

Really?

Or is this a ‘I’ve never heard of it’ PH cliche thing?

Me too, i had to google it. Ku Klux Klan https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ku-Klux-Klan

Can say i have never heard of such organisation before.

I would be surprised if many people would see KKK in a number plate and think of the above organisation?

[donkmeister]

I'm not a zip or turbo manufacturer, nor are my initials KKK so this doesn't affect me, but is Ku Klux Klan membership even a thing in the UK? I know the DVLA has to filter out regs likely to cause outrage and offence, but they draw a line somewhere... Is anyone in the UK truly offended by merely seeing those three letters together?

If they are going to draw that line at things which are offensive in other cultures, I'd like to point out that PUK1 is currently on a beige 1971 Leyland. MOTd and taxed. But, in Bahasa "puki" is a very rude word indeed. Should someone be allowed to drive around with a non-English version of "c**t" on it?

(Btw if anyone owns that car can I have a pic as I have family in Singapore and Malaysia who would find that hilarious)

[Levin]

V8 Stang said:

I would be surprised if many people would see KKK in a number plate and think of the above organisation?

I thought the Klan was notorious globally. For 99% of people they would spring to mind from KKK long before turbochargers ever would. It comes as a shock to me that KKK plates were issued to begin with, although oddly enough I saw my first one only yesterday.

donkmeister said:

If they are going to draw that line at things which are offensive in other cultures...

I think, for the most part, they keep it to things offensive among English speakers. Somewhere in one of Jeremy Clarkson's newspaper columns he wrote about Dutch people finding a press car's registration, ending in KUT, hilarious. Turns out it's an offensive word in Dutch.

[The Rotrex Kid]

V8 Stang said:

The Rotrex Kid said:

993kimbo said:

What is KKK?

Really?

Or is this a ‘I’ve never heard of it’ PH cliche thing?

Me too, i had to google it. Ku Klux Klan https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ku-Klux-Klan

Can say i have never heard of such organisation before.

I would be surprised if many people would see KKK in a number plate and think of the above organisation?

I’m amazed that someone who owns a Mustang and must, must have been exposed to some US culture at some point has never heard of the KKK.

I think a lot of people would see KKK and think ‘oh, like the KKK’

I wouldn’t think a lot of people would be offended by it but that’s a different conversation.

[bangerhoarder]

The turbine manufacturer wisely styles itself with an ampersand - KK&K (in its long history of names and buyouts).

[jonnywishbone.]

I would imagine there would be an ever so slightly increased chance that any car emblazoned with KKK might be more likely to get keyed, bricked or otherwise vandalised so if nothing else it’s probably best off out of circulation for that reason alone.

Put it another way: I wouldn’t park my KKK plated car in Brixton.

[TheRainMaker]

993kimbo said:

What is KKK?

On a UK car, it means KKK same as AAA

In the US however......