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Brit ISPs censor Wikipedia over 'child porn' album cover

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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".

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The real news here is that the decision has been reversed after three days and the site is available again. This means, I suspect that it was a bad decision. My ISP isn't in the list, so presumably didn't block access.

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