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SCORPIONS: 'Virgin Killer' UK Wikipedia Blacklisting Dropped

December 10, 2008

Network World reports that a Wikipedia page blacklisted this weekend in the U.K. over child pornography concerns has been unblocked, a decision that also fully restores the ability of U.K. residents to edit articles in this popular online encyclopedia.

The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF),the nonprofit group that blacklisted the Web page, announced on Tuesday that it has reversed course on the matter, although it still believes the image is potentially illegal in the U.K. The image in question is of a naked and possibly underage female on the cover of a 1976 album from German rock group the SCORPIONS titled "Virgin Killer".

Read the entire story from Network World.

(Thanks: metalblood_)

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