UK ISPs censoring Wikipedia

Re:UK ISPs censoring Wikipedia by sh1mmer on Saturday December 06, 2008 @08:40PM (#388539)

It seems like nothing is actually getting censored. Wikipedia was flagged as a possible source of child porn, probably because of the Virgin Killer's LP.

I would suspect the proxy the ISPs are routing the site through is to monitor the use and log the IPs of the individuals using it. That's pretty funny for wikipedia given the scale of use and it's search rankings.

I wonder what % of the UK broadband connections have been tracked now.

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Re:UK ISPs censoring Wikipedia by lyesit on Saturday December 06, 2008 @10:59PM (#388614)

------ Comment #16 From Gurch 2008-12-06 17:08:01 UTC -------

The transparent proxies have been put in place in order to allow the ISPs to selectively censor Wikipedia pages.

Currently the pages [[Virgin Killer]] and [[Image:Virgin Killer.jpg]] are censored for myself and users of the other UK ISPs mentioned. The technical details vary; in my case, I get a fake 404 page.

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Re:UK ISPs censoring Wikipedia by jacquesm on Sunday December 07, 2008 @04:24PM (#389120)

It's great that you have people that watch over you in case you would consume the 'wrong' information... Now let's hope their definition of 'wrong' matches yours.

Is there anybody in the UK challenging this stuff ?

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Re:UK ISPs censoring Wikipedia by ig1 on Sunday December 07, 2008 @05:11PM (#389161)

http://www.openrightsgroup.org/

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