This leaves several outstanding problems:
1. How many other of the 10,000 censorship decisions IWF censored this year
were equally dubious?
2. How does anyone find out about them, much less contest the mistakes?
3. What do we do about other sites that censor useful material in an
arbitrary manner?
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.
-Durova
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Nathan <nawrich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Presumably Google performs a search of image
descriptions and surrounding
texts, and gives results showing where other sites host the images. I don't
think that Google hosts these images itself - but it would be interesting
to
see if the IWF would take the enormously public step of blocking access to
Google in order to block access to a particular file.
On the other hand, the IWF removed even the Wikipedia version of the file
from the blacklist... So most likely they won't do anything about Google.
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 5:36 PM, Richard Weiss <richard.weiss(a)tvgenius.net
wrote:
I made an anonymous complaint to the IWF against google last night as
google.co.uk definitely hosts these images as an image search of Virgin
killer makes abundant and targeting wikipedia is not fair.
I hope this helped tip the balance.
As someone committed to not having pedophile activism promoted on
wikipeia
I fully agree with Gerard that blocking the VK
article text, which in no
way
advocated child porn
Thanks,
Richard Weiss
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