Re: IWF "Cleanfeed" ISP-level censoring legitimate sites from UK users

Hmmm, I would dispute your assessment actually, having visited the site.
It's all porn, and a lot of it is hentai - drawn pictures of nude girls.
While it is not entirely clear what their age is, *simulated* child porn
is illegal in most countries.

On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 01:19:13AM +0100, Bob wrote:
> 
> However, it appears they have now blocked 4chan.org's "/b/ - Random"
> imageboard :
> http://img.4chan.org/b/imgboard.html
> It must be admitted that /b/ is psuedononymous, anarchic and populated
> mostly by stupid memes, trolling and deliberately tasteless / offensive
> content. In many ways /b/ is a giant deliberately stupid in-joke not
> meant to be taken seriously, aside from an occassional thread where
> people use /b/'s anonymity to ask questions about private matters they
> feel they cannot discuss elsewhere.
> 
> In any case, /b/ is most definetely a legitimate and legal forum which
> has been running for years, is moderated, and is in full compliance
> with United States law since that's where it's hosted.
> (4chan itself is essentially a western clone of the Japanese 2ch.net /
> 2chan.net, amongst the most popular sites in Japan. 4chan is therefore
> very well known by anime fans etc.)
> 
> It seems that the IWF have blocked /b/ on the basis that it is a child
> porn site. This is clearly not the case. Yes, *very occasionally* some
> moron posts CP  on /b/ ... which typically lasts about 30 seconds
> before it's deleted and they're permabanned. 4chan is no different from
> any other public forum which allows image posting in this regard, it
> does not condone such activity and obviously if there was any evidence
> that it did the US authorities would shut it down instantly.
> 
> At present the blocking, which is being done by URL, is not very well
> implemented and there are ways around it. Furthermore not all UK ISPs
> use Cleanfeed ... yet. However, I hope you will agree that it is very
> worrying that legitimate internet forums appear to be being censored in
> the UK secretly and pretty much unaccountably *right now*. I have to
> wonder how long it will be before our authoritarian government decides
> we should "standardise" on this "industry best-practice" for its own
> ends.
> 
> Further references :
> http://dis.4chan.org/read.php/newpol/1150560346/1-40
> http://dis.4chan.org/read.php/img/1149953763/1-40
> http://www.4chan.org/banned.php  <-- some BT users redirected here
> 
> I suppose all this at least serves as inspiration to continue work on
> freenet :(
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> 
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