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UK ISPs censoring Wikipedia over 40-year-old album cover
T3.com All —
... for starters), but the impact the move has had on the day-to-day operation of Wikipedia is going to have much further reaching consequences and raise serious questions about whether the IWF is really fit for purpose. IWF has issued a statement about the decision to add the Wikipedia page to its list and says:"The content was considered to be a potentially illegal indecent image of a child under the age of 18, but hosted outside the UK. The IWF does not issue takedown notices to ISPs or hosting companies outside the UK, but we did advise one of our partner Hotlines abroad and ...
UK ISPs censor Wikipedia over 40-year-old album cover
T3.com All —
... for starters), but the impact the move has had on the day-to-day operation of Wikipedia is going to have much further reaching consequences and raise serious questions about whether the IWF is really fit for purpose. IWF has issued a statement about the decision to add the Wikipedia page to its list and says:"The content was considered to be a potentially illegal indecent image of a child under the age of 18, but hosted outside the UK. The IWF does not issue takedown notices to ISPs or hosting companies outside the UK, but we did advise one of our partner Hotlines abroad and ...
British ISPs block Wikipedia over album cover
ZDNet Government —
... , Britain’s child porn watchdog, identified the page as a “potentially indecent image of a child.” IWF listed on the page on its watchlist, to which most of the U.K.’s ISPs subscribe, with the result that the page is largely unavailable in Britain. All this over an image that has been in wide commercial circulation on album and CD covers since its release in 1976. For those of thus who can still read the page, here’s a little backstory on the image: We didn’t actually have the idea. It was the record company. The record company guys were like, ‘Even if we have to go to ...
Wikipedia on kiddie porn blacklist
p2pnet news —
... noticed that Virgin Media, Be Unlimited/O2/Telefonica, EasyNet/UK Online, PlusNet, Demon, and Opal were routing Wikipedia traffic through a small number of transparent proxy servers as a way of blocking access to the encyclopedia’s article on Virgin Killer, a mid-1970s record album from German heavy band Scorpions.
“On 5 December 2008, the UK-based Internet Watch Foundation blacklisted the article Virgin Killer and a related image as potentially illegal in the United Kingdom,” says the Wikipedia admin site, going ...
Wikipedia Censored In U.K. Over Nude Girl
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... and they are unable to access an article about an album by the German rock group, the Scorpions. The U.K. regulatory agency, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), blacklisted the site Saturday, saying a user reported child sexual abuse and its hotline analysts determined that a picture of a nude girl on the album cover, included in the article, was a potentially illegal indecent image of a child under 18. "The IWF does not issue takedown notices to ISPs or ...
U.K. ISPs Blacklist Wikipedia Over Album Cover Image
The Inquisitr » Technology —
... about the image — and the group has decided to censor it. The IWF says someone reported the Wikipedia page through a form on its Web site. A statement says: ...
A chill wind makes for a slipperier slope
GMSV —
... and found it to contain “a potentially illegal indecent image of a child under the age of 18″ — specifically on the cover of the band’s 1976 album “Virgin Killer.” The IWF added the URLs of the image and the page to a blacklist used by 95 percent of the U.K.’s Internet service providers to filter and block access to offensive sites. However, there was unintended collateral damage. Because all the filtered U.K. traffic was coming through a single proxy IP address, Wikipedia’s defense system kicked in, blocking what it perceived as abuse and as a result, preventing tens of ...
Is Wikipedia Filtering in U.K. Just the Beginning?
Alice Hill's Real Tech News - Independent Tech —
virginkiller.jpg By Michael Santo Editor-in-Chief, RealTechNews Wikipedia is effectively being filtered for most users in the U.K. since the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) added a Wikipedia article on Virgin Killer , an album from German heavy metal group Scorpions, to its blacklist. This could just be the beginning, however. Why? The Guardian noted that a representative of the IWF told them that told them that the same cover art image, which apparently shows an underage girl nude, had been reported to IWF as appearing on an Amazon.com page. Sccording to Sarah Robertson, director of communications ...
IWF backs down on Virgin Killer complaint
p2pnet news —
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Britain’s Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has hurriedly reinstated a Wikipedia page containing an image of a young girl without any clothes.
It shows the cover of 1976 album by German heavy metal band Scorpions, released in 1976 and today judged by the organisation to be potentially illegal in the United Kingdom, as the Wikipedia admin site summed it up.
Virgin Media, Be Unlimited/O2/Telefonica, EasyNet/UK Online, PlusNet, Demon, and Opal were blocking access to the Wikipedia page, said p2pnet.
Now, ...
