Talk:Internet Watch Foundation and Wikipedia/Virgin Killer controversy

Content and edit history of Virgin Killer controversy
I'm going to WP:BOLDly redirect it, so here's the content for those of you who are blocked and the edit history for GNU Free Documentation License compliance for those of you unable to see the article history. Everything is based on this edit immediately prior to the redirect. davidwr/ (talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail)  00:22, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

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Virgin Killer was an album by the band The Scorpions, released in 1976.

The album cover had long been controversial, as it depicted a prepubescent girl, with her genitals obscured by a cracked glass effect.

IWF Action
On 7th December 2008, The UK based Internet Watch Foundation blacklisted the article, resulting in varying degrees of difficulty in viewing the article content affecting many UK users. Press statements from the IWF claimed that the image was and erotic pose, and as such Child pornography.

Knock-on effects
Due to the way in which ISP implemented the block (using transparent proxies), 95% UK editors subsequently appeared to be editing from a very small number of IP addresses, all of which ended up blocked very rapidly due to vandalism.

As a result, almost all UK IP editors found themselves unable to edit, and normal account creation restrictions made the direct registrations of new accounts all but impossible.

Edit history

 * (cur) (last) 00:13, 9 December 2008 Davidwr (Talk | contribs) m (1,320 bytes) (decap) (rollback | undo)
 * (cur) (last) 00:08, 9 December 2008 Pigsonthewing (Talk | contribs) m (moved Virgin Killer Controversy to Virgin Killer controversy: decap) (undo)
 * (cur) (last) 23:57, 8 December 2008 Horsten (Talk | contribs) (1,320 bytes) (wrong year) (undo)
 * (cur) (last) 23:50, 8 December 2008 Davidwr (Talk | contribs) m (1,320 bytes) (fixup merger tag) (undo)
 * (cur) (last) 23:44, 8 December 2008 Terraxos (Talk | contribs) (1,245 bytes) (proposed merge into IWF censorship of Wikipedia) (undo)
 * (cur) (last) 23:42, 8 December 2008 Terraxos (Talk | contribs) m (1,185 bytes) (replaced category with more accurate one) (undo)
 * (cur) (last) 23:42, 8 December 2008 Terraxos (Talk | contribs) (1,174 bytes) (added categories) (undo)
 * (cur) (last) 23:41, 8 December 2008 Pretzels (Talk | contribs) (1,157 bytes) (See also) (undo)
 * (cur) (last) 23:38, 8 December 2008 MBK004 (Talk | contribs) (1,080 bytes) (Added and  tags to article. using Friendly) (undo)
 * (cur) (last) 23:07, 8 December 2008 Mayalld (Talk | contribs) (1,005 bytes) (expand a bit) (undo)
 * (cur) (last) 22:58, 8 December 2008 Mayalld (Talk | contribs) (358 bytes) (Undid revision 256680686 by Ros0709 (talk)rv change to redirect with misleading edit summary) (undo)
 * (cur) (last) 19:57, 8 December 2008 Ros0709 (Talk | contribs) (27 bytes) ((a) _all_ British users not true (I'm in the UK and can see the page) (b) unreferenced (c) belongs, if anywhere, in the actual article - which it is) (undo)
 * (cur) (last) 19:55, 8 December 2008 OsirisV (Talk | contribs) (358 bytes) (undo)
 * (cur) (last) 19:52, 8 December 2008 79.77.36.5 (Talk) (263 bytes) (undo)
 * (cur) (last) 19:51, 8 December 2008 OsirisV (Talk | contribs) (240 bytes) (←Created page with 'Virgin Killer was an album made by the band The Scorpions, released in 1986. On December 9th 2008, Controversy over the Albums cover, which portrayed a nak...')