{"id":147,"date":"2008-12-10T20:00:41","date_gmt":"2008-12-10T20:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/?p=147"},"modified":"2011-06-22T15:45:55","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T15:45:55","slug":"what-a-pip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2008\/12\/10\/what-a-pip\/","title":{"rendered":"WHAT A PIP."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/newstechnica.com\/2008\/12\/07\/uk-citizens-protected-from-wikifilth-by-iwf\/\">UK citizens protected from Wikifilth by IWF<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/newstechnica.com\/2008\/12\/09\/internet-watch-foundation-crapland-closes-down\/\">Internet Watch Foundation &#8220;Crapland&#8221; closes down<\/a>.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Channel 4 was fun. I recorded a sequence of soundbites for them to pick&#8217;n&#8217;choose from. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/articles\/science_technology\/censors+anger+wikipedia+users\/2876007\">News story with video<\/a> &mdash; their Flash player is crappy, crappy, crappy shit and doesn&#8217;t buffer. I look <i>dead<\/i>. &#8220;UNBLOCK WIKIPEDIA OR TEH INTARWEB ZOMBIES WILL EAT YOUR BRAINS.&#8221; The IWF head came across as a curtain-twitching weasel.<\/p>\n<p>A small amount of gleeful dancing on the skulls of the IWF today. Next trick is to get a better UK press corps together for Wikimedia. Mostly it&#8217;s reserve duty. I&#8217;m really annoyed we didn&#8217;t have someone spare for Sky News (I was doing Channel 4 at the same time) as the reporter was actually technically clueful. Any Wikipedia editors here who think they could talk in soundbites on telly if needed?<\/p>\n<p>By the way, the really massive IWF fail, which didn&#8217;t come out in the press coverage: they blocked the page about the album, and they blocked the page for the image, but they <i>didn&#8217;t<\/i> block the image itself.<\/p>\n<p>The next question is what happens next. The filtering infrastructure melted when faced with filtering a top 10 site; they&#8217;re not going to give up and go away, so I expect them to (a) beef it up (b) make it less evident &mdash; we spotted this by the collateral damage.<\/p>\n<p>I also predict a flood of helpful citizenry going to the IWF <a href=\"http:\/\/iwf.org.uk\/reporting.htm\">reporting<\/a> page and entering any image on any top 10 website that might be &#8220;potentially illegal.&#8221; Much as the head of the IWF is &#8220;potentially a fabulous drag queen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t aware before going on it just how important <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Today_programme\">Radio 4 Today<\/a> is. In fact, I&#8217;d barely heard of it. Do I get deported now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK citizens protected from Wikifilth by IWF. Internet Watch Foundation &#8220;Crapland&#8221; closes down. Channel 4 was fun. I recorded a sequence of soundbites for them to pick&#8217;n&#8217;choose from. News story with video &mdash; their Flash player is crappy, crappy, crappy shit and doesn&#8217;t buffer. I look dead. &#8220;UNBLOCK WIKIPEDIA OR TEH INTARWEB ZOMBIES WILL EAT &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/2008\/12\/10\/what-a-pip\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WHAT A PIP.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wiki"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4FmVR-2n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidgerard.co.uk\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}