2008/12/9 Anthony wikimail@inbox.org:
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Isabell Long isabell121@gmail.com wrote:
I do see why they have censored it, it could have been offensive in some way to certain people, but I think that there are many more potentially offensive things on en.wikipedia than that.
http://www.iwf.org.uk/public/page.35.htm
They block:
- images of child sexual abuse* hosted anywhere in the world
- criminally obscene content hosted in the UK
- incitement to racial hatred content hosted in the UK
My understanding is that for material of the first class in the UK, they get it taken down rather than (possibly in addition to?) filtering - it can't be legally hosted here anyway, so if they've found it they may as well move on to stage two!
However, whilst their remit does encompass "normal" criminally obscene material (as it were) and the more malignant types of racial hatred, it's not clear what that means in practice. The reports I've read seem to indicate that they don't actively do anything about these types of material, perhaps due to lack of resources or of clear guidelines on what they should be dealing with, and instead concentrate (almost?) entirely on child abuse material.
Of course, it's hard to say withy any degree of certainty, because the blockees tend not to issue press releases on a regular basis...