[Wikinews] — At least six of main UK’s ISPs have implemented monitoring and filtering mechanisms that are causing major problems for UK contributors on websites operated by the Wikimedia Foundation, amongst up to 1200 other websites. The filters, said, are applied because Wikimedia sites are hosting a German rock band’s album covers which some call child pornography.

The band named The Scorpions have used several contentious album covers and are perhaps best known for their song, “Rock You Like a Hurricane“.

The measures applied redirect traffic for a significant portion of the UK’s Internet population through six servers which can log and filter the content that is available to the end user. A serious side-effect of this is the inability of administrators on Wikimedia sites to block vandals and other troublemakers without potentially impacting hundreds of thousands of innocent contributors who are working on the sites in good faith.

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