2008/12/7 Thomas Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Thanks, but I got in via a different route. Thing is I suspect that issue >> will be catching many others too. This whole thing is a disaster sfaiac >> for editors and readers alike. > > Indeed. There's not a lot we can do about it, though... hopefully the > press will take the "Evil ISPs censor the wonderful Wikipedia" angle > rather than the "Wikipedia serves up kiddy porn" angle and IWF will be > forced by the bad publicity to reverse their position. We'll know by > mid-way through Monday at the latest, I guess.
An Associated Press article has just been posted at FoxNews website: http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Dec07/0,4670,EUBritainWikipediaCensorship,00.html Including ZDNet and The Register, this is the largest (albeit, international) news source to mention the story. The story is geared towards ISP censorship and the collateral of proxy filtering, rather than the image itself. "Robertson [IWF spokeswoman] said that image _ a picture from one of the band's album covers _ was first flagged by an Internet user last week. The Internet Watch Foundation consulted with British law enforcement before concluding that the picture could break the law, she said." -- Oldak Quill ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l
