[WikiEN-l] IWF blacklist

[geni]

2008/12/9 Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com>:
> This leaves several outstanding problems:
> 1. How many other of the 10,000 censorship decisions IWF censored this year
> were equally dubious?

Not our problem but the odds are not many.

> 2. How does anyone find out about them, much less contest the mistakes?

By getting demon as your ISP then setting a bot to crawl the entire web.

> 3. What do we do about other sites that censor useful material in an
> arbitrary manner?

Again not our problem. What other sites chose to do is not of our business.


>
> I blogged today about the IWF and about Facebook.  Facebook has censored one
> of the featured pictures I restored for Wikipedia.  The image generated zero
> complaints from 17.3 million page views when it ran on Wikipedia's main
> page, and I presented it in my profile merely as one of dozens of examples
> of featured content work.
>
> Yet Facebook provided no means of appeal, and my own efforts to contact them
> and seek reconsideration fell on deaf ears.
>
> The problem is bigger than IWF.

Private sites have every right to restrict what they allow on their
sites. That includes wikipedia.

-- 
geni