•Internet Watch Foundation reconsiders Wikipedia censorship
guardian.co.uk, UK -1 hour ago
The Internet Watch Foundation is considering whether to lift the ban a Wikipedia page - the first time it has considered such a change under its rules. ...

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•WIKIPEDIA Founder Considers Action Over SCORPIONS Image Ban - Dec ...
Blabbermouth.net, NY -54 minutes ago
Antony Savvas of ComputerWeekly.com reports the the founder of Wikipedia has told Channel 4 News that he is considering challenging the decision to prevent ...

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•Wikipedia founder considers legal action over ban on 'pornographic ...
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom -46 minutes ago
The founder of Wikipedia is considering legal action against the Internet Watch Foundation after it ruled that an article about a German hard rock band was ...

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•Wikimedia, IWF respond to block of Wikipedia over child ...
Men's News Daily, CA -43 minutes ago
On December 7, Wikinews first reported that some Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the United Kingdom, were filtering access to an image and an article ...

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•Did the Internet Watch Foundation go too far blacklisting Wikipedia?
iGIZMO, UK -1 hour ago
The Internet Watch Foundation may have been setup for the right reasons, but if it's to work effectively then it needs to do its job properly – and when it ...

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•Wikipedia Founder Blasts Nude Girl Censors
InformationWeek, NY -1 hour ago
By KC Jones Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said he has considered taking legal action against the group that blacklisted Wikipedia in the United Kingdom ...

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•Wikipedia Founder Blasts Nude Girl Censors
InformationWeek, NY -1 hour ago
By KC Jones Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said he has considered taking legal action against the group that blacklisted Wikipedia in the United Kingdom ...

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•UK Censors Wikipedia Article with Nude Girl Album Cover
eFluxMedia -41 minutes ago
By Eric Blair Internauts in the UK have been blocked from viewing a certain article about an album from the German rock band the scorpions due to the ...

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I love it.

Wikipedians routinely block anyone who hints they are thinking of suing WMF.

Now Jimbo threatens to sue IWF.

So by Jimbo's rules, IWF should now retaliate and block Jimbo, WMF, and WP.

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•The Scorpions in center of censorship debate over Wikipedia entry
Prefixmag, NY -1 hour ago
Legendary metal band The Scorpions are in the center of a debate over censorship after a Wikipedia entry bearing the cover of their 1976 album, ...

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•Wikipedia Founder Takes a Swing at Nude Girl Censors
eFluxMedia -58 minutes ago
By Jenny Huntington Recently, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales stated he was planning to sue the group Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), which blacklisted the ...

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•British censor reverses Wikipedia ban
guardian.co.uk, UK -27 minutes ago
Britain's internet censor has backtracked on its decision to ban a Wikipedia page for containing a "potentially illegal" image of a naked child. ...

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•Wikipedia Founder Considers Action Against IWF Over ScorpionsSCORPION
KNAC.com, CA -14 minutes ago
By Newsferatu, Writer Computerweekly.com is reporting, the founder of Wikipedia is considering challenging the decision to block access to part of Wikipedia ...

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•IWF lifts Wikipedia ban
Channel 4 News, UK -6 minutes ago
The Internet Watch Foundation has removed its block of a Wikipedia page referring to the 1976 album Virgin Killer, saying it regrets the "unintended ...

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•Wikipedia victory in Scorpions censorship row
Times Online, UK -16 minutes ago
An anti-child abuse watchdog has reversed its decision to blacklist a Wikipedia page showing a controversial 1976 album cover after protests over censorship ...

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•Wikipedia Article Censored In UK
eFluxMedia -7 minutes ago
By Davie Barret A Wikipedia article was censored for the first time in UK because of an article describing the fourth studio album of German rock band ...

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•Wikipedia child porn row continues - Jimmy Wales has his say
TECH.BLORGE.com, Australia -30 minutes ago
By Dave Parrack Over the weekend it emerged that roughly 95 percent of British Internet users had been banned from reading a certain article on Wikipedia, ...

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•Wikipedia Founder To Go To Court Over Scorpions Article?
Metal Underground, MD -27 minutes ago
According to Computerweekly.com, the founder of Wikipedia has told Channel 4 News that he is considering challenging the decision to block access to part of ...

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•Controversial Wikipedia Ban Lifted by UK Watchdog Group
The Industry Standard, CA -48 minutes ago
A UK Internet watchdog group Tuesday reversed its decision to ban a Wikipedia page over an image its members considered indecent. ...

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•British Dispute That Blocked Wikipedia Editing Is Resolved
New York Times Blogs, NY -59 minutes ago
By Noam Cohen A standoff between Wikipedia and a quasi-governmental British watchdog group over a 1970’s heavy-metal album cover was resolved on Tuesday ...

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•UK Internet watchdog backtracks on Wikipedia ban
CNET News, CA -7 minutes ago
Wikipedia functionality has returned for Brits after the country's Internet watchdog reversed its decision to prevent Brits from visiting a Wikipedia page ...

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•UK Wikipedia blacklisting dropped
PC World Magazine, Australia -1 hour ago
A block on a Wikipedia page over child pornography concerns in the UK has been lifted. A Wikipedia page blacklisted this weekend in the UK over child ...

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•UK Wikipedia blacklisting dropped
Computerworld Australia, Australia -1 hour ago
A block on a Wikipedia page over child pornography concerns in the UK has been lifted. A Wikipedia page blacklisted this weekend in the UK over child ...

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•UK Internet watchdog reverse Wikipedia“child porn” ban decision
Macworld UK, UK -1 hour ago
A Wikipedia page blacklisted this weekend in the UK over child pornography concerns has been unblocked, a decision that also fully restores the ability of ...

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•Wikipedia blacklisted for child porn
Inquirer, UK -1 hour ago
By Nick Farrell As a result of the move almost every Internet user in Britain has been blocked from contributing to the site anonymously. ...

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•Internet watchdog lifts Wikipedia ban
Britain News, UK -2 hours ago
London, Dec 10 : In an unprecedented move, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has lifted its ban on a controversial page on Wikipedia which showed an image ...

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•Internet watchdog lifts Wikipedia ban
Birmingham Star, AL -2 hours ago
London, Dec 10 : In an unprecedented move, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has lifted its ban on a controversial page on Wikipedia which showed an image ...

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•Internet watchdog lifts Wikipedia ban
Malaysia Sun, Malaysia -1 hour ago
London, Dec 10 : In an unprecedented move, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has lifted its ban on a controversial page on Wikipedia which showed an image ...

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•Internet watchdog lifts Wikipedia ban
Albuquerque Express, NM -1 hour ago
London, Dec 10 : In an unprecedented move, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has lifted its ban on a controversial page on Wikipedia which showed an image ...

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•Internet Watch Foundation U-Turns on Wikipedia Block
ISPReview UK, UK -1 hour ago
The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has done a u-turn on its widely reported censorship of Wikipedia content (original news). The block was originally ...

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•Wednesday, 10 December 2008 UK Internet watchdog reverse Wikipedia...
Macworld UK, UK -1 hour ago
A Wikipedia page blacklisted this weekend in the UK over child pornography concerns has been unblocked, a decision that also fully restores the ability of ...

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•Ban on 'pornographic' Wikipedia image lifted
ComputerWeekly.com, UK -1 hour ago
The online encyclopedia appealed against the ban on an image of a naked young girl used on the cover of the 1976 "Virgin Killer" album by German heavy metal ...

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•IWF backs down over flagged Wikipedia image
Pocket-lint.co.uk, UK -1 hour ago
The IWF has formally withdrawn its objection to the Wikipedia page that it had described as "potential illegal child sexual abuse". ...

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•Wikipedia - IWF backs down
BBC News, UK -55 minutes ago
It must have been a long and difficult meeting. All day on Tuesday, the Internet Watch Foundation was taking calls from journalists like me and promising a ...

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•IWF removes Wikipedia website from watch list Wednesday 10 ...
Telecompaper, Netherlands -52 minutes ago
The UK's Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has decided to remove a Wikipedia webpage from the IWF watch list. The webpage was reported through the IWF online ...

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•IWF removes Wikipedia website from watch list
Telecom Paper (subscription), Netherlands -52 minutes ago
The UK's Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has decided to remove a Wikipedia webpage from the IWF watch list. The webpage was reported through the IWF online ...

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•IWF backs down on Wikipedia censorship
Information World Review, UK -1 hour ago
By Iain Thomson 10 Dec 2008 The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has lifted its ban on Wikipedia, which slowed access to the site to a crawl in the UK. ...

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•IWF backs down over Wikipedia
Web User, UK -52 minutes ago
The Internet Watch Foundation has withdrawn its objection to a Wikipedia page that contained an image of a naked girl on an album cover. ...

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•IWF reverses Wikipedia block decision
Tech Digest, UK -45 minutes ago
Following massive negative publicity after blocking British internet users from accessing pages on Wikipedia, the Internet Watch Foundation has reversed ...

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•IWF lift Wikipedia ban
Current IT news from heise online, UK -44 minutes ago
The Wikipedia ban has been revoked. On Tuesday evening, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) announced that it had reversed its decision of last week and ...

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•'Child porn' Wikipedia page u-turn
ComputerworldUK, UK -1 hour ago
By Juan Carlos Perez A Wikipedia page blacklisted in the UK over child pornography concerns has been unblocked, a decision that also fully restores the ...

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•IWF reverses Wikipedia block decision
Tech Digest, UK -51 minutes ago
Following massive negative publicity after blocking British internet users from accessing pages on Wikipedia, the Internet Watch Foundation has reversed ...

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•Internet watchdog backtracks on Wikipedia ban
Crave, UK -47 minutes ago
By Steven Musil on 10 December 2008, 11:02am Wikipedia functionality has returned the Internet Watch Foundation reversed its decision to prevent users from ...

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•Wikipedia page ban sparks ethics controversy
ITBusiness.ca, Canada -47 minutes ago
Should an image that's deemed "distasteful" by many, but isn't illegal be banned from being displayed on a popular Web 2.0 site? Does a self-governing group ...

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•Wikipedia ban lifted by Internet Watch Foundation
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom -1 hour ago
The Internet Watch Foundation has reversed its decision to ban access to a Wikipedia page that includes an image of a naked girl. By Claudine Beaumont and ...

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•Wikipedia Founder Blasts Nude Girl Censors
InformationWeek, NY -1 hour ago
By KC Jones Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said he has considered taking legal action against the group that blacklisted Wikipedia in the United Kingdom ...

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•IWF appeals procedure reverses Wikipedia block
thinkbroadband.com, UK -1 hour ago
Wikipedia should be back to normal for people, ie anonymous editing from UK connections should work, and where the site was slowing down due to being passed ...

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•Wikipedia Founder Blasts Nude Girl Censors
TechWeb -1 hour ago
By KC Jones Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales said he has considered taking legal action against the group that blacklisted Wikipedia in the United Kingdom ...

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•IWF Backtracks On Wikipedia Controversial Image Ban
ITProPortal, UK -1 hour ago
The row over the 32-year old album cover depicting a nude teenage girl, which some described as child pornography, has apparently ended with the Internet ...

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•Britain reverses Wikipedia ban
ITWeb, South Africa -1 hour ago
BY MARTIN CZERNOWALOW , ITWEB ONLINE EDITOR Britain's Internet censor has backtracked on its decision to ban a Wikipedia page for containing a "potentially ...

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