gawker.com - 12/7/2008
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nude prepubescent girl with a teddy bear in front of her In the original, the teddy bear's not there; there's just a crack obscuring the girl's vagina. This 1976 album cover from the Scorpions was banned in the U.S.; the German metal band used a shot of the band for the American cover of Virgin ...
iwf.org.uk - 12/8/2008
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iwf.org.uk —
IWF is the UK's internet Hotline' for the
public and IT professionals to report potentially illegal online...
content within our remit. We work in partnership with the online industry, law enforcement, government, the education sector, charities, ...
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IWF statement regarding Wikipedia URL
iwf.org.uk - 12/9/2008
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iwf.org.uk —
IWF Logo A Wikipedia webpage was reported through
the IWF's online reporting mechanism on 4 December 2008....
As with all potentially illegal online child sexual abuse reports we receive, the image was assessed according to current UK legislation and in ...
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IWF statement regarding Wikipedia webpage
guardian.co.uk - 12/8/2008
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guardian.co.uk —
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) is reviewing its
decision to list as "child pornography" the image on...
one version of the album "Virgin Killer" by the rock band The Scorpions hosted on Wikipedia – and might yet add Amazon US to its list of ...
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Wikipedia row escalates as internet watchdog considers ...
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Kiddie-porn scandal lands Wikipedia a British ban [The Sum Of All Human Knowledge]
Gawker: valleywag —
... Free-speech zealots among Wikipedia's volunteer editors have insisted that the original cover of Virgin Killer, a 1976 album by German heavy metal band the Scorpions — shown here with a teddy-bear bowdlerization — must run alongside the site's page for the album. Their stubbornness has ...
Wikipedia page censored in the UK for 'child pornography'
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... It should be noted that the cover in question is no stranger to controversy, and its use on Wikipedia has been under debate for some time. Gawker ran the story, Wikipedia Is Arguing Whether This Album Cover Is Child Porn, seven months ago, on May 9. But I didn't notice any American ISP's blocking access to Wikipedia. ...
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British ISPs block Wikipedia over album cover
techdigest.tv 12/8/2008 — That image to the right, when uncensored, is the cover to German heavy metal band Scorpions' 1976 album "Virgin Killer". It was the centre of a storm yesterday after six British ISPs blocked their subscribers from accessing pages that featured it, including Wikipedia. As well as the block of ...
Wikipedia Blocked in U.K.--Because of 30-Year-Old LP —
AppScout
German metal band band The Scorpions may be singlehandedly destroying the Internet in the U.K.--via the cover of a 30-year-old record. The album cover, which features the image of a young girl naked save for a strategically placed camera-lens crack, has caused U.K. watchdog group The Internet ...
British ISPs block Wikipedia over album cover —
ZDNet Government
We’re accustomed to the Internet being censored in China and other repressive regimes. But it’s a bit disconcerting when Great Firewall techniques come to the U.K. At issue is the Wikipedia page for the Scorpions’ album Virgin Killer, which features the nude image of a young ...
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