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..?
Well, contrary to my expectations, Google continued working as normal today, with no strange or spurious results. This is either due to Google’s relevancy algorithms, or Blog Action Day (BAD) not being used to boost website traffic to otherwise irrelevant sites.
I just found out from StatCounter.com that tomorrow is Blog Action Day ’08, a well-meaning attempt to turn the online community’s attention to the topic for this year: global poverty.
Bad Behavior has blocked 236 access attempts in the last 7 days.