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IWF Backs Down On Wiki Censorship
jonbryce writes "The Internet Watch Foundation, guardians of the Great Firewall of Britain, have stopped censoring Wikipedia for hosting what they considered to be a child porn image. They had previously threatened to block Amazon for hosting the same image." Here is the IWF's statement, which credits the Streisand Effect for opening their eyes: "...in light of the length of time the image has existed and its wide availability, the decision has been taken to remove this webpage from our list. Any further reported instances of this image which are hosted abroad, will not be added to the list. ... IWF's overriding objective is to minimize the availability of indecent images of children on the internet, however, on this occasion our efforts have had the opposite effect."
I for one thought the image was HOT. Be honest now, I'll bet more than half the guys here and maybe some of the females (well, that would be, what, 5 or 6?) think so too, but just don't want to get labled a perv.
Fact is, the USA and GB are dominated by prudes, and much of the rest of the world thinks we're crazy.
If you want news from today, you have to come back tomorrow.
Try this on:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_(mind_game)
How can a bullet stop the game? For that matter, how do you plan on telling the players from the non-players, especially if people ignore rule 3 (as they most often do)?
If it's in you sig, it's in your post.
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, not the Karma Sutra.