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UK ISPs Are Censoring Wikipedia
Concerned Wikipedian writes "Starting December 4th, Wikipedia administrators noticed a surge of edits from certain IP addresses. These IPs turned out to be the proxies for the content filters of at least 6 major UK ISPs. After some research by Wikipedians, it appears that the image of the 1970s LP cover art of the Scorpions' 'Virgin Killer' album has been blocked because it was judged to be 'child pornography,' and all other attempts to access Wikimedia foundation sites from these ISPs are being proxied to only a few IP addresses. This is causing many problems for Wikipedia administrators, because much of the UK vandalism now comes from a single IP, which, when blocked, affects potentially hundreds of thousands of anonymous users who intend no harm and are utterly confused as to why they are no longer able to edit. The image was flagged by the the Internet Watch Foundation, which is funded by the EU and the UK government, and has the support of many ISPs and online institutions in the UK. The filter is fairly easy to circumvent simply by viewing the article in some other languages, or by logging in on the secure version of Wikipedia."
Looks like someone has already cracked her though.
I wonder how they exploited her.
Omg, so many weird analogies :D
Security through obscurity made them trying to cover up her root hole?
I found some flaws in the her top layers.
Information wants to be free! Now they can't stop her from being spread all over.
The article don't reveal if their is a back door.
We've already seen the hardware but does she run Linux?
Imagine a beowulf cluster of .. :D
Is this what they called a 1U rack size?
I'm on a Sky connection which is part of Easynet -
# 212.134.155.210 (talk contribs deleted contribs logs block user block log) - ISP = Easynet/UK Online/Sky Broadband
I don't see anything censored.
To be honest though, if the UK government wants to censor that image and stop me from stumbling upon it while reading up on old bands / albums, I'd be more than happy for them to, in fact I'd like them to. I, like most people (I would hope) find severe disgust in that graphic, what the hell is wrong with German people?
- Dan
Let me give you a hand there.