2008/12/9 Durova nadezhda.durova@gmail.com:
This leaves several outstanding problems:
- How many other of the 10,000 censorship decisions IWF censored this year
were equally dubious?
Not our problem but the odds are not many.
- How does anyone find out about them, much less contest the mistakes?
By getting demon as your ISP then setting a bot to crawl the entire web.
- What do we do about other sites that censor useful material in an
arbitrary manner?
Again not our problem. What other sites chose to do is not of our business.
I blogged today about the IWF and about Facebook. Facebook has censored one of the featured pictures I restored for Wikipedia. The image generated zero complaints from 17.3 million page views when it ran on Wikipedia's main page, and I presented it in my profile merely as one of dozens of examples of featured content work.
Yet Facebook provided no means of appeal, and my own efforts to contact them and seek reconsideration fell on deaf ears.
The problem is bigger than IWF.
Private sites have every right to restrict what they allow on their sites. That includes wikipedia.