[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia blocked alongside "gambling, porn and other potential hazardous sites"

Sun Mar 27 19:57:33 UTC 2005

I just hope this doesn't result in any Wikipedia regulars being blocked...

Mgm

On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 16:43:49 +0100 (BST), Matt R
<matt_crypto at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:220.233.86.223#We_now_have_to_block_Wikipedia
> 
> Amusing, but I thought I'd let people know. An anon has claimed, "I am in
> charge of 25K plus internet users in Australia and have decided to block the
> Wikipedia site through our routers." His reasons include a legal need to
> protect his customers from the net (yes, folks, WP is that sinister...).
> 
> (The background to this is that this user was blocked a couple of weeks back
> for posting a user's personal information and insinuating threats (legal and
> otherwise) in a dispute about the [[Potter's House Christian Fellowship]]
> article. Presumably sour grapes -- and bluff, in all likelihood.)
> 
> Matt
> -- [[User:Matt Crypto]]
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