> 2008/12/10 geni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> 2008/12/10 K. Peachey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>>> Don't forget that was after jimbo said he was considering sueing
>>> because even the IWF had it checked and it was only "possibly"
>>> illegal, they never got confirmation, it would the same in court say
>>> if someone was stopping people from entering a store and claiming
>>> their carrot cake had rat poison in it without checking.
>
>> I doubt that was a significant factor. Looking at their statement the
>> decision was based on the pragmatic position that it would not be
>> possible to filter the image due to it's very wide distribution.
>
>
> And that no-one was saying "BAN THIS SICK FILTH" or "THINK OF THE
> CHILDREN", instead they were saying "MY ISP CENSORED AN ENCYCLOPEDIA"
> and "YOU CAN GET IT IN THE HIGH STREET". And "The IWF head looks like
> a curtain-twitching weasel."
>
> No-one knew about the IWF before this. Once people knew, they despised
> them and their existence.
>
>
> - d.

You go too far. We censor actual child pornography out of Wikipedia too.
There are limits and someone enforces them.

Fred



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