2009/1/15 Ian A. Holton <poeloq(a)gmail.com>om>:
"Following complaints that its child-porn blacklist has led multiple
British ISPs to censor innocuous content on the Internet Archive's Wayback
Machine, the Internet Watch Foundation has confirmed the blacklist contains
images housed by the 85-billion-page web history database."
(
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/14/iwf_details_archive_blacklisting/
)
It's not only use being bad then :)
Note that apparently, some ISPs have now blocked (reportedly) access
to the entire Internet Archive. Talk about collateral damage...
I don't know whether the blame lies with the IWF (did they just add
*.archive.org to the filter?) or with the individual ISPs that did not
manage to filter out the specific pages supplied by the IWF -- but
either one is messing up things pretty badly here.
If you have friends in the PR business, you should send them a
heads-up, I think someone will recruit new PR staff soon ;-)
--
Michael Bimmler
mbimmler(a)gmail.com