simon collister on Tue, 9 Dec 2008 13:19:32 +0100 (CET) |
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<nettime> Wikipedia censored by UK ISPs and the 'independent' NGO, Internet Watch Foundation |
Today has seen possibly the most overt and high-profile act of censorship of Wikipedia by UK ISPs on the recommendation of an NGO, the Interent Wacth Foundation, funded by the EU, ISPs and supported by the UK Home Office and Ministry of Justice. The BBC has the full story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7770456.stm ... and the Guardian publishes a fillow-up which riases the spectre of where the censorship may or may not end: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/dec/08/amazon-internet-censorship-iwf For live discussion of the issue, see: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=wikipedia+scorpions _________________________________________________________________ Live Search presents Big Snap II - win John Lewis vouchers http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/117442309/direct/01/ # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org