British ISPs sensoring Wikipedia articles

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12/07/brit_isps_censor_wikipedia/

Dayum, Eclipse Internet (My ISP) is doing it, wow, this is one time they haven't been such a good ISP..

I get a 404 error on the "Virgin Killer" album page unless I use a proxy.

I also cannot edit pages, Eclipse has merged us all into 1 IP.

[N!ck]

Oh dear. Here's what you're missing Tom ;).

*REMOVED*

Edited by MattGarner (Forum Super Moderator): Please do not post child pornography.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Virgin_Killer.jpg

Here the image

[N!ck]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Virgin_Killer.jpg

Here the image

It's not like you can see anything on the image anyway lol.

[Recursion]

I just used www.hidemyass.com LOL

http://www.tehupload.com/uploads/10654fabf852e4607-12-2008_21-59-32.png

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I know lol xD

[N!ck]

http://images.google.co.uk/images?um=1&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&q=virgin+killers+album+cover&btnG=Search+Images lol

[Rapidshare]

what was the girl name?

[xxMATTGxx]

Is this because that girl looks like a kid meaning it be like child porno?

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It is child porn LOL

[xxMATTGxx]

Well I don't blame them for blocking it then. As we do have some sick people in this world, but I don't want them to start blocking everything because of something utter stupid.

[Andys]

on virgin its just a whtie page

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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b7/NirvanaNevermindalbumcover.jpg - I don't see why that isn't blocked then.

[MasterFM]

Its good that their sensoring this stuff,
but there will eventually be a cutoff point where they go too far with the banning.
http://whois.domaintools.com/62.30.249.131 is the ip that virgin media users go to.
Virgin media customers see:
http://www.tehupload.com/uploads/app-561284495326814857.png

[Recursion]

Thats what I get if I try to edit a page, thats why I logged in LOL

[Technologic]

*censoring and i'm blocked too. tbh i dont even want to look at that

+18 males for me please

[MasterFM]

*censoring and i'm blocked too. tbh i dont even want to look at that

+18 males for me please

Screw you too.

[HotelUser]

You're complaining that they block child pornography?

(Unless I'm missing something) why are you posting pictures of child pornography on HxF? Are you an idiot:O:O?

[Rapidshare]

You're complaining that they block child pornography?

(Unless I'm missing something) why are you posting that on HxF? Are you an idiot?

You're missing something :rolleyes:

[MasterFM]

You're complaining that they block child pornography?

(Unless I'm missing something) why are you posting that on HxF? Are you an idiot?

Ohhh. i thought he ment he didnt want to look at my post :rolleyes:

[CrazyColaist]

virgin media have blocked it. the idiots. lol

[Agnostic Bear]

It is child porn LOL
IT

Well I don't blame them for blocking it then. As we do have some sick people in this world, but I don't want them to start blocking everything because of something utter stupid.
IS

*censoring and i'm blocked too. tbh i dont even want to look at that
+18 males for me please
NOT

You're complaining that they block child pornography?
(Unless I'm missing something) why are you posting pictures of child pornography on HxF? Are you an idiot:O:O?
CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
Learn the damn difference between nudity and pornography.

[xxMATTGxx]

IT

IS

NOT

CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
Learn the damn difference between nudity and pornography.

I never said it was. But if there are pics of say a naked kid on an album cover, yeah its a cover. But there is sick people in this world who would like print it off and hang it on the walls and do you know what to it. It may sound wrong, but there you go LOL. Although that is a bit sad tbh <_<

[Flisker]

This is quite pathetic... soon they will be blocking petty stuff on the internet (on a connection we pay for).

[HotelUser]

I never said it was. But if there are pics of say a naked kid on an album cover, yeah its a cover. But there is sick people in this world who would like print it off and hang it on the walls and do you know what to it. It may sound wrong, but there you go LOL. Although that is a bit sad tbh <_<

It's probably true though.

[Technologic]

Be glad you don't live in Australia lol, soon they're getting that compulsory filter that blocks most +18 sites and they reckon it'll halve speeds.

Damn their government

[Indie-Dan]

That is ridiculous, you pay these companies so you can use the internet and they sensor stuff out? I'd be fuming if I were you - sensors should only be put on the internet if the user needs be.

I'll stick with good ol' Sky tyvm, gives me my TV aswell :P

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Be glad you don't live in Australia lol, soon they're getting that compulsory filter that blocks most +18 sites and they reckon it'll halve speeds.

Damn their government

I thought they were using the same system and blacklist as the UK?


That is ridiculous, you pay these companies so you can use the internet and they sensor stuff out? I'd be fuming if I were you - sensors should only be put on the internet if the user needs be.

I'll stick with good ol' Sky tyvm, gives me my TV aswell :P

Sky are part of this... they use the Internet Watch Foundation's (IWF) blacklist, as do a lot of other ISPs.

[Indie-Dan]

Sky are part of this... they use the Internet Watch Foundation's (IWF) blacklist, as do a lot of other ISPs.


Yeah but surely that's them just keeping an eye on what you view so you don't look at stuff you're not supposed to, as opposed to censoring the stuff like on your ISP?

[Recursion]

Yeah but surely that's them just keeping an eye on what you view so you don't look at stuff you're not supposed to, as opposed to censoring the stuff like on your ISP?

Nope, the IWF influence like 85% of Britains ISPs.

[Technologic]

I thought they were using the same system and blacklist as the UK?



Sky are part of this... they use the Internet Watch Foundation's (IWF) blacklist, as do a lot of other ISPs.

Nope, they stepping it up to some mad level, basically their government sees the internet as bad. They dont even have 18 movie/game ratings over there lol

[Recursion]

They have R ratings for GTA IV LMAO.

[awelsh]

well thats officially gay, I cant edit pages on wiki -.- virgin media scum

[Recursion]

Register, then you can.

[awelsh]

Register, then you can.

bah but then I get blocked :P I usually change pages when I know my mates are copying ans pasting for essays, so I change random words in the paragraphs and they dont notice lol

[brandon]

If I saved this image, would I be considered to be downloading child porn?

[Indie-Dan]

Nope, the IWF influence like 85% of Britains ISPs.


Christ on a bike. Jeremy Clarkson was right on Sunday during Top Gear when he said "we don't live in a free country" !

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Yes, but i did it anyways

[Technologic]

They have R ratings for GTA IV LMAO.

It's an MA15+ in Australia. Most violent games have to be edited so that they can be sold there. Fallout 3 originally showed the player administering drugs but they had to cut it cus of the aussie government

[iUnknown]

This is the first of many sensors from ISPs. I can feel it!

[Decode]

If I saved this image, would I be considered to be downloading child porn?
It would depend how you look at it. Some people see it as child nudity which is different from child porn. How ever you have already downloaded it as it is in your temp internet files.

[J0SH]

They're not as good ISP because they stopped you being able to edit a page with a nude infant? Yeah. :rolleyes:

[Calon]

Your lucky that your internet hasn't been terminated for viewing it.

[today]

i get a 404 error, lol.

[HotelUser]

IT

IS

NOT

CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
Learn the damn difference between nudity and pornography.

It's still illegal?

[Recursion]

So why do they suddenly decide to block a 40 year old image...?

[Kevin]

I think it's sick anyway. It should have never been published. I dont know how they got away with that, i know it was banned in the UK but to even have the nerve to launch it in other country's, if i saw that album in the shops, id be like ***

[HotelUser]

So why do they suddenly decide to block a 40 year old image...?

I do think it should be blocked, but you do pose a good point. They should have banned this image entirely, after countries began banning the album cover. Banning it 40 years later is weird.

[awelsh]

I do think it should be blocked, but you do pose a good point. They should have banned this image entirely, after countries began banning the album cover. Banning it 40 years later is weird.

Well, its up to us what we can and cant view really. But it is pretty sick, what I don't agree with is the fact they blocked us from editing pages. Thats just annoying.

[Recursion]

Wikipedia blocked us from editing the pages without signing up because the ISPs were edit-bombing and vandalizing the Wiki.

[Tom-743]

Your lucky that your internet hasn't been terminated for viewing it.
So much for the 3 strikes = internet cut thing :(

[efq]

Lol how old is she.

[HotelUser]

So much for the 3 strikes = internet cut thing :(

My internet actually went down last night, and I was terrified it had something to do with this (as an image is hotlinked). Thankfully it wasn't:P.

[Recursion]

So much for the 3 strikes = internet cut thing :(

That doesn't exist in the UK.... yet.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7774102.stm

They have backed down! LOL!

But it is still blocked for me..

[Stephen!]

It works for Virgin Media now.

[GommeInc]

I never said it was. But if there are pics of say a naked kid on an album cover, yeah its a cover. But there is sick people in this world who would like print it off and hang it on the walls and do you know what to it. It may sound wrong, but there you go LOL. Although that is a bit sad tbh <_<
How do you know that I'm not the sort of person to print off the Kings of Leon - Sex is on Fire album and do dirty little things to it? :P There are some famous photographers which took photos of some child nudity, it showed the world how poverty affected the young. It's kinda different :P Child pornography usually shows something sexually explicit as far as I am aware. It's why the men on underwear boxers, posters and sites are called models and not porn stars :P

[MasterFM]

Block has been removed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7774102.stm

[J0SH]

I bet you're well happy you can view that image now, enjoy :rolleyes:

[Recursion]

Block has been removed.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7774102.stm

Already posted LOL. Your a bit slow mr!

[J0SH]

Already posted LOL. Your a bit slow mr!

No one is faster than you, Gary Glitter. Haha :P

[efq]

Lol im unblocked, but who takes a pic of that and puts it on a cover...?

[lolwut]

It's good that they censored it, seen as it's child porn.

I guess it's actually bad that they've now uncensored it.

Whoever that band is, gotta have something wrong in the head... Like how Marilyn Manson took some of his ribs out to suck himself off... Or at least apparently.

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O/T... lolwut, wuts up with the signature? LOL

[Kyle!]

It's good that they censored it, seen as it's child porn.

I guess it's actually bad that they've now uncensored it.

Whoever that band is, gotta have something wrong in the head... Like how Marilyn Manson took some of his ribs out to suck himself off... Or at least apparently.

Led Zepplin? No way! It was just related to their album name. Aswell, he never removed his full ribcage it was a bit of it... Still sick though lol.