Archive for the ‘freedom’ tag
Uncensored
Further to my previous rant on censorship, it seems the IWF has decided it may have dropped a clanger in its decision to block (most) UK Internet access to a particular web page.
The statement on their website implies the decision to unblock the web page was theirs alone, and makes no mention of the global outcry caused by their initial action.
Surely, the backtracking thought process that went on at the IWF is one that should have happened before blocking the web page in the first place..?
Censorship
Well, it seems the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), an independent UK-based Internet watchdog, has got itself into what could be a major publicity debacle; one from which it simply cannot emerge without losing a lot of face.
