The result is that those internet service providers which are members of IWF have blocked their users from accessing that page.Ī host of Wikipedians is on the warpath, suggesting that this is censorship by a self-appointed body which has no right to decide what we can look at on the web. Now the Internet Watch Foundation - which has been Britain's leading online child abuse watchdog for the past 12 years - has put that Wikipedia page on its banned list. That cover shows a naked child, and even back in the 70s it proved too distasteful for many, and was withdrawn in a number of countries. The page that they cannot view is about a relatively obscure 70s heavy metal band, Scorpions, and it has been blocked because it includes an image of a controversial album cover.
And it's not just any website - it's Wikipedia. But recently I’ve been thinking, ‘What if I wasn’t OK with my freaking penis being shown to everybody?’ I didn’t really have a choice.Is the internet censored in the UK? Well, no, most of us would say - you can get to any site you want, as long as it isn't breaking the law - and even then, the authorities are unlikely to intervene.īut now customers of several big internet service providers are finding that they cannot access one page of a website. The same month he told Australian GQ Magazine (opens in new tab), "I’ve been going through it my whole life. It’s cool but weird to be part of something so important that I don’t even remember." It’s strange that I did this for five minutes when I was four months old and it became this really iconic image. He told the newspaper, "The anniversary means something to me. In 2016 Elden hooked up with the New York Post to recreate the iconic photo on its 25th anniversary. The cover remained unstickered, but it has continued to ruffle feathers: Back in 2011, the Nevermind artwork was briefly banned by Facebook (opens in new tab).
Upon its release in 1991, several major US record chains refused to stock Nevermind, and frontman Kurt Cobain only agreed to the artwork being censored if any covering sticker read: ‘If you’re offended by this, you must be a closet paedophile’.
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