Brit ISPs censor Wikipedia over 'child porn' album cover

[Naib]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/12...sor_wikipedia/

Six British ISPs are filtering access to Wikipedia after the site was added to an Internet Watch Foundation child-pornography blacklist, according to Wikipedia administrators.

As of Sunday morning UK time, certain British web surfers were unable to view at least one Wikipedia article tagged with ostensible child porn. And, in a roundabout way, the filtering has resulted in Wikipedia admins banning large swaths of the United Kingdom from editing the "free encyclopedia anyone can edit."

On Friday, Wikipedia administrators noticed that Virgin Media, Be Unlimited/O2/Telefonica, EasyNet/UK Online, PlusNet, Demon, and Opal were routing Wikipedia traffic through a small number of transparent proxy servers as a way of blocking access to the encyclopedia's article on Virgin Killer, a mid-1970s record album from German heavy band Scorpions.

[jmzmaloney]

Ha Ha Scorpions are paedophiles I knew it

[DeeGun]

Ha Ha Scorpions are paedophiles I knew it

They are germans..what did you expect?

[Borf™]

Wind Of Change is a quality tune.

Taaaaaaaaaaake TAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE me

[justin_credible]

I thought this would be about the nevermind cover.