There was a thread about this at AN/I a little while ago - I believe Mr. Godwin contacted them and they said they had no involvement.
Are you sure of this? I know the register says it, but shouldn't we double check?
- Chris On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Gordon Joly gordon.joly@pobox.com wrote:
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2009/1/16 Chris Down neuro.wikipedia@googlemail.com:
There was a thread about this at AN/I a little while ago - I believe Mr. Godwin contacted them and they said they had no involvement.
Are you sure of this? I know the register says it, but shouldn't we double check?
That was ISPs blocking Wikipedia again, this is them blocking the Internet Archive. The former apparently had nothing to do with IWF, the latter does - IWF has apparently confirmed it.
2009/1/16 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com:
2009/1/16 Chris Down neuro.wikipedia@googlemail.com:
There was a thread about this at AN/I a little while ago - I believe Mr. Godwin contacted them and they said they had no involvement. Are you sure of this? I know the register says it, but shouldn't we double check?
That was ISPs blocking Wikipedia again, this is them blocking the Internet Archive. The former apparently had nothing to do with IWF, the latter does - IWF has apparently confirmed it.
Yes. I have serious qualms about what the IWF does and how it does it, but I have no reason to believe they'd lie. When they don't want to say something, they say "no comment."
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2009/1/16 Chris Down neuro.wikipedia@googlemail.com:
There was a thread about this at AN/I a little while ago - I believe Mr. Godwin contacted them and they said they had no involvement.
Are you sure of this? I know the register says it, but shouldn't we double check?
About a week or two ago, someone on IRC flagged up a weird situation where a number of specific URLs, if fed into web.archive.org, would bring up the usual list of dates... but with every link on it going to a really quite surreal link which said something along the lines of "this has been blacklisted", hosted on one of the UK ISPs. This affected some UK readers but not others.
The situation resolved itself within an hour or so, though, and the behaviour stopped. I really should have taken screenshots, but it didn't occur to me until afterwards...
So, yeah, weird archive.org stuff and the IWF seems plausible.
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