cleanfeed and wikipedia

[Richard Clayton]

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In article <4948FEAF.6567.1000E0C@davidh.spidacom.co.uk>, David Hansen
<davidh@spidacom.co.uk> writes

>On 17 Dec 2008 at 12:58, Richard Clayton wrote:
>
>> The search engines, as a matter of standard practice, remove items which
>> are on the IWF list from their search results (arguably having more
>> impact than all the blocking systems put together!)
>
>Really. I haven't noticed IWF stating this on their web site,

There's a list of recipients of the blocking list at

        http://www.iwf.org.uk/public/page.148.438.htm

this includes

        Ask.com
        Google UK
        MSN
        Yahoo! UK and Ireland

and there's probably more I don't immediately associate with search
engines (since there's more of them than you'd think)

> though I 
>have not looked thoroughly.

they've been working with the search engine community for 5 years plus

>How do they differentiate between the Mickey Mouse places with 
>censorship? 

I expect Disney run corporate filters ... some of the companies that
take the IWF list build it into enterprise systems (the sort of thing
that lots of Fortune 500 sites use)

>Could the Scorpions image be accessed via Google in China?

I never tried to find out ... someone tells me it was easy to access via
Wikipedia in Finland -- but it's pretty clear that the IWF didn't make
any attempt whatsoever to locate all possible copies of this particular
image (though sources suggest that they had a lot of helpful reports
which would have assisted them going forward).

But there's still no news of arrests at HMV!

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richard                                              Richard Clayton

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.         Benjamin Franklin

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