Hello All, Web users in the UK has been banned from accessing the page on Virgin Killer<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_killer>in wikipedia. The page has been classified as coming under the category of child pornography. But the editors of wikipedia has as of now decided to retain the page. Administrators' notice board regarding the ban: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/2008_IWF_action
The controversial image which necessitated the ban [image: Image:Virgin Killer.jpg]<http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/33/Virgin_Killer.jpg> Internet Watch Foundation has issued the following press statement regarding the ban. IWF statement regarding Wikipedia URL 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, international partners and the public to minimise the availability of this content, specifically, child sexual abuse content hosted anywhere in the world and criminally obscene and incitement to racial hatred content hosted in the UK. We are an independent self-regulatory body, funded by the EU and the wider online industry <http://iwf.org.uk/funding/page.64.htm>, including internet service providers, mobile operators and manufacturers, content service providers, filtering companies, search providers, trade associations and the financial sector as well as other organisations that support us for corporate social responsibility reasons. We help internet service providers and hosting companies to combat abuse of their networks through our national 'notice and take-down' service which alerts them to potentially illegal content within our remit on their systems and we provide unique data to law enforcement partners<http://iwf.org.uk/police/page.5.htm>in the UK and abroad to assist investigations into the distributers of potentially illegal online content. As sexually abusive images of children are primarily hosted abroad, we facilitate the industry-led initiative to protect users from inadvertent exposure to this content by blocking<http://iwf.org.uk/public/page.148.htm>access to it through our provision of a dynamic list of child sexual abuse URLs. A Wikipedia web page, was reported through the IWF's online reporting mechanism in December 2008. As with all child sexual abuse reports received by our Hotline analysts, the image was assessed according to the UK Sentencing Guidelines Council <http://iwf.org.uk/police/page.105.htm>(page 109). 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 our law enforcement partner agency of our assessment. The specific URL (individual webpage) was then added to the list provided to ISPs and other companies in the online sector to protect their customers from inadvertent exposure to a potentially illegal indecent image of a child. -- James Michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
