Tier 1's filtering web content?

Ricky · 7th December 2008

Hearing reports that one of more of the Tier 1's have started filtering web-content - this true?

ccomley: No-one expects the spanish inquisition.

Ricky · 7th December 2008

More here also

UK ISPs switch on mass Wikipedia censorship - Mixed Signals - Rupert Goodwins's Blog at ZDNet.co.uk Community

Karl · 7th December 2008

Not Tier-1s thought is it? It's ISPs not transit providers, big difference

Ricky · 7th December 2008

Dunno, you boys are the experts, I'm just the messenger

Karl · 7th December 2008

I very much doubt you'll see transit providers ever filtering content as it endangers their common carrier status - As it does for ISPs, but the govt. likes IWF even if they are somewhat shady and secretive IMHO, so it's unlikely to be so much of an issue. Besides which, for transit providers it'd be a nightmare, especially for the Tier-1s that deal with multiple countries and laws.

Schumie · 7th December 2008

This started to kick off quite heavily yesterday.

I have been in touch with both Wikipedia and the IWF over this incident as well as a number of the ISP's involved.

All I can say is that the listing IMO was done without true investigation, as the image in question (an album cover from a band called the Scorpions) is also shown on sites such as Amazon and images.google.com

If the IWF had listed google.com for filtering, I suspect that most of the proxies would have fallen over by now (by the sounds of it, many of them are struggling).

Karl · 7th December 2008

Yup, patently ridiculous. I've seen the image in question and lets be fair, our parents have pictures "worse" (for want of a better word) of most of us in their photo albums - but that's Daily Wail PC "won't someone think of the children" society we live in these days. As for the IWF, not fit for purpose would be about right IMHO.

Ricky · 7th December 2008

Virgin Killer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Blocked for me on Be*

midnightsoftwar · 7th December 2008

Me neither on Virgin.

Real-Hosts · 7th December 2008

Strange - works here on Virgin/Telewest.

midnightsoftwar · 7th December 2008

Definitely can't get it here. Blank page in Firefox, and 'Operation couldn't be completed' in Safari.

danfoster · 7th December 2008

Yep can't get it from home on be broadband, but can when vpn'd into the office. I may be naive but I didn't realise there was any filtering of this nature going on with ISPs.

Schumie · 7th December 2008

I'm on VM; the filtering has been intermitent over the last 24 hours.

Sometimes you can't access the full size image page, or sometimes the article at all.

All throughout though, the thumbnail has been able to be downloaded.

Schumie · 7th December 2008

Oh, and some articles to boot..

FBI investigates 'Wikipedophilia'
Is Wikipedia wicked porn?

danfoster · 7th December 2008

Lol I can get this page though British ISPs restrict access to Wikipedia amid child pornography allegations - Wikinews, the free news source which has the same image on it...