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How the IWF blacklist stops you seeing the Scorpions' album cover

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If you needed a flow diagram - and doesn't everyone, at some point? - of how the UK's Internet Watch Foundation/BT CleanFeed system works to prevent you seeing album covers by the Scorpions and other unsavoury content, it's right here.

Thanks to Nocky. As Boing Boing comments,

Translation: a third party now monitors every request made to Wikipedia from the six ISPs that participate in the Great Firewall of Britain.

Flow diagram of how the Internet Watch Foundation/BT CleanFeed net censorship system works in practice



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