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I'd just like to mention that Be* filter it 
Wikipedia Censorship
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Still, it remains their website and they can do whatever they wish regardless.
Personally id want to know why the xxxx are they looking in my internet cache in the first place....
Discovering images in the cache is something that you can only find if you deliberately go looking for it.
Surely they would be breaking the law themselves???.
Ah, thanks for that Dolph. I clearly didn't read the story, sorry.
It looks like some users may have gone in and edited the wiki page afterwards, but that's the real issue, it's not wiki censoring anything.
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I'd just like to mention that Be* filter it
I can't access it from work. The rest of the Wikipedia is fine but our BlueCoat box comes up with a IWF Blocked Content for that one page. I also cannot access it from my iPhone (O2) as I get a 403 Forbidden.
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Its getting silly, why not the Nirvana Nevermind album cover as well.
I can't access it from work. The rest of the Wikipedia is fine but our BlueCoat box comes up with a IWF Blocked Content for that one page. I also cannot access it from my iPhone (O2) as I get a 403 Forbidden.
Are you connecting via WiFi?
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No. Edge baby!
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The pic is edited in the same style as Pamela Anderson at Hefner's birthday party anyway.
Looking for the purposes of law enforcement isn't illegal.
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It is in the UK if your not a officer for a law enforcement agency
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As I see it, everyone was wrong in this case.
The image shouldn't have been on the Wikki, the replacement cover and a description of the initial cover would have provided the same value to a reader seeking information.
The censorship by that company and the ISPs should only be used where the company/owner of the site either cannot be identified, or lives in some sort of law haven. Otherwise legal action could take the image down, if legal action cannot take it down you shouldn't filter it.
The method used to block things on the list is bad too, I'm with Be*, so I was blocked from editing Wikipedia yesterday.
And It didn't stop me looking at what all the fuss was about, It took me 2 minutes to find a public proxy which could view it. Ironically, the same method used to block it.
The image shouldn't have been on the Wikki, the replacement cover and a description of the initial cover would have provided the same value to a reader seeking information.
The censorship by that company and the ISPs should only be used where the company/owner of the site either cannot be identified, or lives in some sort of law haven. Otherwise legal action could take the image down, if legal action cannot take it down you shouldn't filter it.
The method used to block things on the list is bad too, I'm with Be*, so I was blocked from editing Wikipedia yesterday.
And It didn't stop me looking at what all the fuss was about, It took me 2 minutes to find a public proxy which could view it. Ironically, the same method used to block it.
You went behind a proxy? What the hell are you scared of?
Well yeah, but if you're not working for law enforcement then you're probably not enforcing the law...
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It's was impossible to view it without doing so.