Wikipedia/Child porn

Donald-Duck

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Saturday 6 December 2008, 11:50 PM
UK ISPs switch on mass Wikipedia censorship

Posted by Rupert Goodwins

The following notice has appeared on Wikipedia today when many UK users attempt to edit content:

"Wikipedia has been added to a Internet Watch Foundation UK website blacklist, and your Internet service provider has decided to block part of your access. Unfortunately, this also makes it impossible for us to differentiate between different users, and block those abusing the site without blocking other innocent people as well."

According to discussions on the Wikipedia administrators noticeboard, this is because a transparent proxy has been enabled for customers of Virgin Media, Be/O2/Telefonica, EasyNet/UK Online, PlusNet, Demon and Opal. This has two effects: users cannot see content filtered by the proxies, and all user traffic passing through the proxies is given a single IP address per proxy. As Wikipedia's anti-vandalism system blocks users by IP address, one single case of vandalism by a single UK user prevents all users on that user's ISP from editing. The effect is to block all editing from anonymous UK users on that list of ISPs. Registered users can continue to edit.

The content being filtered is apparently that deemed to meet the Internet Watch Foundation's critera for child pornography – in one case, this involves a 1970s LP cover art which, although controversial, is still widely available.

Reports on the admin noticeboard say that this filtering is easy to circumvent, either by using Wikipedia's secure server or by sending a request to find the page via parameters in the URL. However, no fix has been found – nor is one expected – for the proxy address problem.

"This is the first I've come across UK wide internet censorship, and I'm shocked. I had no idea until now that like China, we too have built a great firewall - only we keep quiet about ours.", user Hahnchen said, on the noticeboard.

So how long till we copy the UK with tihs?

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Runny...?

Overheal

Snyper what did you do this time?

Ghost Train

wiki anatomy pages are aways well illustrated

i think they published that album cover in the times magazine a few week back...edit no, that was eric claptons blindfaith album

Terry

Donald-Duck wrote: »

http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10009938o-2000331777b,00.htm


So how long till we copy the UK with tihs?

About two weeks.

honestly, I don't know.

What is the 19780's album cover which is causing this crap?

Donald-Duck

[NSFW]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Virgin_Killer.jpg[/NSFW] is the cover

RoundyMooney

Overheal wrote: »

Synper what did you do this time?

Who is Synper?

And ffs, get my name right while you're at it.

Orange69

The UK is becoming an incredibly PC nation.. Its fascinating that such a proud empire should regress to such a pathetic state.

ShooterSF

Pretty sure eircom actually fight these things. Could be wrong though

RoundyMooney

Terry wrote: »

About two weeks.

honestly, I don't know.

What is the 19780's album cover which is causing this crap?

At a guess, probably the Scorpions one that caused all the hand wringing back in the day.

Simi

Wait, what? Does this magic album cover filter apply just to wikipedia or are all sites funnelled through the proxy? Maybe just a slight over reaction tbh. I don't see how that can count as child porn by any stretch of the imagination.

Terry

Sweet Jesus christ.
It's a nasty picture, but in no way should it cause an entire nation to be restricted from one site. A site that is basically a free encyclopaedia.

This is what happens when you alow the hippies run the country.

They tell you that they are liberal, but all they want to do is tell you what to do based on their own agenda.

U2 in shocking child porn scandal.
http://delucio.com/blog/wp-content/images/U2_Boy.jpg

Donald-Duck

Simi wrote: »

Wait, what? Does this magic album cover filter apply just to wikipedia or are all sites funnelled through the proxy? Maybe just a slight over reaction tbh. I don't see how that can count as child porn by any stretch of the imagination.

Just wikipedia. And any of the other sites on the list I guess.

SV

Terry wrote: »

U2 in shocking child porn scandal.
http://delucio.com/blog/wp-content/images/U2_Boy.jpg

and Nirvana.

Terry

ClioV6 wrote: »

and Nirvana.

OMG!!!!!!
That has a penis.

AlmightyCushion

Lol at the similar threads.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

While I can see the relveance of the word "child", I think people have a complete misunderstanding of the word 'pornography'.