cleanfeed and wikipedia

[Ian Batten]

On 16 Dec 2008, at 20:37, Roland Perry wrote:
> People don't just type in urls at random, they have to be sent to  
> most pages/images they view. That might be a search engine, but also  
> bloggers, urls in emails and usenet postings [spam or otherwise],  
> web pages that say "here's a collection of links to rather odd  
> pictures I've found", and so on.
>
> Blocking these links by "pretending" the destinations don't exist  
> will stop the casual surfer from stumbling over the images, without  
> troubling them with the news that they've had a "near miss".

Although on the other hand, one could argue that informing the  
innocent that the web page they are clicking on links from is in fact  
linking to child porn might put people on notice that they're straying  
where it's unwise.  A page containing ten links, five of which elicit  
IWF blocks, is itself arguably illegal (advertising of content) and  
it's a fair chance that the other five links won't be to pictures of  
puppies taken by vicars' wives.

ian