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Comments on: U.K. Internet watchdog backtracks on Wikipedia ban

The online encyclopedia's editing tools became inaccessible to Brits after the U.K.'s Internet censor took issue with a rock band's album cover.

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by Fherghaile December 9, 2008 6:48 PM PST
What else would anyone expect, it's England.
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by ddesy December 10, 2008 5:59 AM PST
The IWF sounds like what they have in China...
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by robvme December 10, 2008 6:00 AM PST
Wow, if they censored something like that I have to wonder what else the Brits are missing on the Net. If they were going to censor Wikipedia, they should do it on the basis that much of the info is incorrect and misleading, not for an 80's album cover.
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