2009/1/15 Ian A. Holton <poe...@gmail.com>: >> "Following complaints that its child-porn blacklist has led multiple >> British ISPs to censor innocuous content on the Internet Archive's Wayback >> Machine, the Internet Watch Foundation has confirmed the blacklist contains >> images housed by the 85-billion-page web history database." > > ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/14/iwf_details_archive_blacklisting/ > ) > > It's not only use being bad then :)
Note that apparently, some ISPs have now blocked (reportedly) access to the entire Internet Archive. Talk about collateral damage... I don't know whether the blame lies with the IWF (did they just add *.archive.org to the filter?) or with the individual ISPs that did not manage to filter out the specific pages supplied by the IWF -- but either one is messing up things pretty badly here. If you have friends in the PR business, you should send them a heads-up, I think someone will recruit new PR staff soon ;-) -- Michael Bimmler mbimm...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l
