On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 5:20 PM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]>wrote:
> 2009/1/15 Ian A. Holton <[email protected]>: > >> "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 :) > > Obviously, blocking the whole site is unacceptable and is probably due > to technical incompetence on the parts of either the IWF or ISPs (or > both). However, it wouldn't surprise me if the Internet Archive > contains child-porn - it's generated automatically, isn't it? If the > internet contains child-porn, then so will an archive of it. I'm not > really sure what the best course of action for the IA is, but they do > need to do something to minimise the risk of illegal images being > archived. > Tesco (NTL) isn't blocked from archive.org. I just checked. -- Alex (User:Majorly)
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