Internet Watch Foundation and Wikipedia
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internet-watch-foundation-and-wikipedia-203-14226534
title:
Internet Watch Foundation and Wikipedia
text:
On 5 December 2008, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a British watchdog group, blacklisted content on the English Wikipedia related to Scorpions' 1976 studio album Virgin Killer, due to the presence of its controversial cover artwork, depicting a young girl posing nude, with a faux shattered-glass effect obscuring her genitalia. The image was deemed to be "potentially illegal content" under English law which forbids the possession or creation of indecent photographs of children. The IWF's bl
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Blacklist of Wikipedia in the UK
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Watch_Foundation_and_Wikipedia
date created:
2008-12-08T20:14:35Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T17:27:53Z
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