[Foundation-l] WP edit/access blocking in the UK - statement from the WMF

[Platonides]

David Gerard wrote:
> 2008/12/8 Jay A. Walsh:
> 
> 
>> http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Censorship_of_WP_in_the_UK_Dec_2008
> 
> 
> http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/07/how-the-great-firewa.html
> 
> How the Great Firewall of Britain works
> 
> - d.

Interesting, which urls are they blocking?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Killer
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Virgin_Killer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Killer?bypass_censorship
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Virgin_Killer&iwf=please_dont_censor_me
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=256646302
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IDW_censors_wikipedia&action=submit&preload=Virgin_Killer

Blocking each and every way to access one article on MediaWiki is a bit
hard. Unless thay are actually reading the page content and so risk
blocking any page containing the words 'Virgin Killer'.