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Old 07-12-2008, 12:34   #1
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Six British ISPs are filtering access to Wikipedia
Couldn't find a thread on this already so thought I would post one here to see what people think regarding a story run by TheReg today.

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Six British ISPs are filtering access to Wikipedia after the site was added to an Internet Watch Foundation child-pornography blacklist, according to Wikipedia administrators.
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On Friday, Wikipedia administrators noticed that Virgin Media, Be Unlimited/O2/Telefonica, EasyNet/UK Online, PlusNet, Demon, and Opal were routing Wikipedia traffic through a small number of transparent proxy servers as a way of blocking access to the encyclopedia's article on Virgin Killer, a mid-1970s record album from German heavy band Scorpions.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12...sor_wikipedia/

The censored link is at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Killer and all I get is a blank page. You can still view the unrestricted page if you use Google Cache but I won't link direct to it from here just in case anyone is unsure about it.

But what do you think? VM blocking access due to child-pornography or do you think this is taking things just a little too far? I can understand the sensitivities in the subject matter but this isn't some unknown website, its Wikipedia...
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