"Why haven't BT subscribers been subject to the block? - We are!
Giano
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Oldak Quill oldakquill@gmail.com wrote:
2008/12/9 David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/dec/09/wikipedia-censorship-iwf-re...
This is apparently the *first* IWF decision *ever* to require review.
My prediction: they've been turned to mincemeat every media interview they've done on the subject, we've looked like stars. Everyone despises them. They aren't standing up too well under scrutiny. So I suspect they'll quietly unblock Wikipedia and not block again without at least telling us first. The censorship mechanism will stay in place
- the ISPs feel they aren't free not to sign up to this "voluntary"
scheme - and probably be refined to see if they can block sites like us again without breaking everything as they did this time.
It is possible the IWF will try to make the decision stand. In which case, party on.
Something I don't understand about this affair: BT set up Cleanfeed, the "ISP level content filtering system" that caused this problem. Why haven't BT subscribers been subject to the block?
-- Oldak Quill (oldakquill@gmail.com)
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