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The virgin killer wikipedia page is what exposed the IWF's internet censorship about 15 years ago, since it was causing all UK wikipedia access to go via a transparent proxy to 'seamlessly' remove that page from the site. After a short outcry they had to remove the wikipedia block for the page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Uni...




The thing that scares me is that although the iwf backed down. They aren't saying it's legal. I'm genuinely concerned some sort of ISP level monitoring could red flag me for visiting that page.


At this point millions of people have probably visited that page, red flagging them all would just render the flag as useless.


That's a good point. Thanks




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