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Dec. 9th, 2008
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Dec. 9th, 2008 07:31 amWikipedia's UK blacklisting brings out a bunch of issues around the problem of what to do about online child pornography, a current hot topic in Australia. The cover of the Scorpions' 1976 album Virgin Killer is certainly child porn - a sexual photograph of a naked prepubescent girl with overtones of rape and murder. When it appeared on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bad_album_art, I was so pissed off that I threw my newly purchased best of Scorpions album in the rubbish. If anything should be censored, that should. But no matter what your opinion on censorship, getting child porn off the net is a lot more complicated than just adding sites to a blacklist. There are weird side effects: only one page is blocked, but that necessitates banning Brits from anonymously editing anything on Wikipedia. Plus it's conspicuously ineffective: quoth Wiki's lawyer, "We believe it's worth noting that the image is currently visible on Amazon, where the album can be freely purchased by UK residents. It is available on thousands of websites that are accessible to the UK public."
bad_album_art, I was so pissed off that I threw my newly purchased best of Scorpions album in the rubbish. If anything should be censored, that should. But no matter what your opinion on censorship, getting child porn off the net is a lot more complicated than just adding sites to a blacklist. There are weird side effects: only one page is blocked, but that necessitates banning Brits from anonymously editing anything on Wikipedia. Plus it's conspicuously ineffective: quoth Wiki's lawyer, "We believe it's worth noting that the image is currently visible on Amazon, where the album can be freely purchased by UK residents. It is available on thousands of websites that are accessible to the UK public."(no subject)
Dec. 9th, 2008 03:38 pm1000 words of short story The Sign, which looks like it'll be maybe 2500 words.