IWF Backs Down On Wiki Censorship

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday December 9, 2008 @09:10AM from the that-streisand-thing-again dept.

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."

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Re:not a "child porn" image by Ethanol-fueled · 2008-12-09 09:48 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Oh, one more thing: the family movie "Milk Money" released in 1994 which depicts a prostitute showing her bare breasts to a boy in exchange for a few bucks. The actual shot shows her topless from behind as the kid watches. CHILD PORN!!!1!!!