Tuesday 9 December 2008

UK Thought Police

George Orwell's Thought Police (from his novel 1984) are alive and well and living in the UK. They call themselves the Internet Watch Foundation. They've persuaded UK ISP's to block a Wikipedia page which shows the cover of an old Scorpions album: Virgin Killer (1976). They reckon the picture of a naked girl on the cover is a "potentially illegal child sexual abuse image"! So how come nobody noticed this "crime" for 32 years? The ban has also had the effect of blocking UK users from editing articles on Wikipedia. (Coxsoft is one of these users.) Care to bet that the next album cover banned by the UK Thought Police will be this haunting and mystical image for Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy (1973)?

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