Wikipedia censorship over album cover

[Alex S. Garcia]

> > Claims that up to 70% of the UK can't edit Wikipedia due to Internet
> > Watch Foundation censorship of a Scorpions album cover:
>
> There's more coverage on this on The Register, and The Guardian even
> had a flowchart outlining how the filtering is done.

Just found this on... the wikipedia page dedicated to the 'Virgin killer' 
album! Apparently, the ban didn't last very long:

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Sarah Robertson, director of communications for the IWF, stated that in 
collaboration with the Child Exploitation and Online Protection agency of the 
UK, the image had been rated as a "1 on a scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is the 
least offensive",[30] representing "erotic posing with no sexual activity".
[30] On December 9, 2008, the IWF issued a statement reversing their 
blacklist of Wikipedia.[31]
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BTW, note #31 points to this IWF link:
http://www.iwf.org.uk/media/news.251.htm




Alex.
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