On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 2:01 PM, Thomas Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/12/7 Maury Markowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:47 PM, techman224 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> It's too bad the UK is censoring Wikipedia. I'm just shocked to see an >>> English Country that's fully developed to censor Wikipedia. It is like >> >> They're not. Its a technical problem that will no doubt be solved. > > A load of ISPs blocking a page that contains a (IMO decent) nude > picture of a young girl (and in one case displaying a notice about > child pornography in its place) is a not censorship but a technical > problem? I'm not buying it... it seems pretty intentional to me... > (The whole transparent proxies meaning our blocks of vandals have > massive collateral damage thing is a technical problem, but that's not > really the issue.)
Some ISP of folks have talked to the IWF. The block was made intentionally, and it was made in awareness of other copies of the image on the internet. The IWF opted to take a "more pragmatic approach" to other URLs showing the image. (Perhaps they reasoned that other people would be more likely to sue them into oblivion). This may also explain why the entire Wikipedia article was blocked rather than just the image itself. _______________________________________________ Wikipedia-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l
