IWF now blocking Internet Archive's Wayback Machine?

[Richard Clayton]

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In article <4ef11ebf0901140119h1001bcccv5145515db15fc834@mail.gmail.com>
, Andy M Smith <andy.smith@netprojects.org.uk> writes

>2009/1/14 Paul Vigay <ukcrypto@vigay.com>:
>> I get the same results as when checking from the ISP I work for (Orpheus).
>
>I'm not sure why this happens, but I'm on Zen, and after searching for
>'www.bbc.co.uk' in the Wayback Machine, the links are redirected to
>one of Thus's proxies (i.e. the URL is
>http://iwfwebfilter.thus.net/web/20020124121058/http://www.bbc.co.uk/)

That suggests to me that archive.org has configured its copy of squid in
an interesting manner :(    and that is what is probably causing access
via Demon's cache to fail (rather than have it pass through the requests
that do not lead to what the IWF deem to be illegal material).

Once again, of course, we see the IWF's model of blocking-rather-than-
trying-to-remove causing problems rather than solving them :(

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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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