UK Agency Blocks Wikipedia Image

December 10th, 2008

Internet users in the United Kingdom can no longer edit Wikipedia or access an article about an album by the Scorpions, a German rock band. The Internet Watch Foundation, a UK regulatory agency, blacklisted the site Saturday after a user reported the image on the album as child sex abuse. The hotline analysts determined the image was potentially illegal.”The IWF does not issue takedown notices to ISPs [Internet Service Providers] or hosting companies outside the UK, but we did advise one of our partner hotlines abroad and our law-enforcement partner agency of our assessment,” the group said on its Web site. “The specific URL (individual Web page) was then added to the list provided to ISPs and other companies in the online sector to protect their customers from inadvertent exposure to a potentially illegal indecent image of a child.”

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