Internet watchdog backs down over naked girl image

December 10, 2008
The photograph on Wikipedia was of a record sleeve for an album by German rock band 'The Scorpions' (pictured)

Rudolf Schenker (right) and Matthias Jabs of German hard rock band 'The Scorpions' perform live at Mediterraneo's Palace in Almeria, southern Spain, May 2008. An Internet watchdog has reversed a decision to block users from viewing a Wikipedia page showing a picture of a naked girl, after protests that the image is widely available on a record sleeve of one of 'The Scorpions' album covers.

An Internet watchdog has reversed a decision to block users from viewing a Wikipedia page showing a picture of a naked girl, after protests that the image is widely available on a rock band record sleeve.



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Child porn is quite heinous, yes, but child porn constitutes somewhere in the area of less than 0.00001% of all internet traffic, so it is used by control freaks and their associated corporations as a method of rousing up the general populace---so draconian controls on the internet can be instituted--and thus allow the stated control freaks and their associated corporations to block information that might show the public the depth of control that the control freaks and their associated corporations have in the lives of the general population.

It isn't the kiddie porn they are after, it is the willingness of the public to protect them selves from the fundamental truths in their lives of who is doing what to who -and exactly how.

That is the information they want blocked and they want the public to believe it is good for them. So hate crimes and kiddie porn are dragged out of the closest as justification for blocking information flow to the general public. But only select information. That is the real and true target of 'control freaks and their associated corporations'.

The larger group of the public is, let's face it- a bit dense- on the best days. So slipping such things by their intellectual and awareness levels..is not such a difficult thing.

There are layers within layers, even within your given partner's true internal feelings of/on/about you, vs what you imagine. So imagine how simple it it is for something as remote as this to have many hidden layers.

Think about that for a while.
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