cleanfeed and wikipedia

[Ian Batten]

On 9 Dec 2008, at 20:31, Roland Perry wrote:

> In article <1662E328-ED8F-4E04-978D-4AE81F6D770B@batten.eu.org>, Ian  
> Batten <igb@batten.eu.org> writes
>> either the iwf have been playing in this space undetected,  or this  
>> marks the beginning of a move into this space because public  web  
>> access to child porn (as opposed to p2p and im and so on) is a   
>> small and nearly solved problem.
>
> Does it make a mockery of the idea that the IWF could start to  
> filter material of other kinds (criticism of the Government, or  
> whatever) from the web without anyone noticing?

There's a difference between being stupid and blocking Wikipedia and  
blocking random leftie site X.  Especially as it so happens that  
Wikipedia's security mechanisms to guard against sock-puppets are  
sensitive to queries coming from a small range of IP numbers: would  
other sites notice?

Does anyone know how the precise Wikipedia page that was being blocked  
was found?  It's a low-traffic page worldwide.

ian