The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) has lifted its ban on Wikipedia, which slowed access to the site to a crawl in the UK.On Saturday the IWF placed Wikipedia on its watch list, a group of web sites that are identified to internet service providers as hosting child pornography. The listing came after the site was reported to be hosting a picture a young naked girl, which was the cover The Scorpions album ‘Virgin Killer'.
The IWF listing slowed access to the site to a crawl as ISPs sought to block it and stopped edits being made by British users. However, the IWF has no rescinded its ban.
"Following representations from Wikipedia, IWF invoked its Appeals Procedure and has given careful consideration to the issues involved in this case," said the group.
Woah, Nellie. Communist?
Also, why does the IWF have this type of power that they can directly block websites to an entire region/country?
Also, why does the IWF have this type of power that they can directly block websites to an entire region/country?
The IWF does nothing of the sort. They just maintain a list of sites with child pornography on them. It's up to the ISPs to use that list or not. The IWF doesn't block anything.
So is the ban lifted or not?
Typo, but I thought that for a moment too
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