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Why the IWF was right to ban a Wikipedia page
Published 12/9/2008 at The Register
Wikimedia's hypocrisy Opinion There has been a storm of controversy over a decision by the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) to blacklist a page of Wikipedia. But the criticism of Britain's online watchdog is unfair and hypocritical.…
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