# Talk:Internet Watch Foundation and Wikipedia

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Most school filtering has started to filter Wikipedia, even HTTPS is enabled. They doing the same to other pages. For example in UK (at least), UK schools is filtering Wikipedia and forced into own school servers, which will replace Wikipedia SSL with own web filters. Then, it scan for some terms, and it will block pages with words under "bad" lists. Why? 2A02:C7F:963F:BA00:3928:4259:986C:BDA5 (talk) 21:04, 8 March 2018 (UTC)

Source number 40 has not this information on page 12 in the PDF document. I do not understand French and can not find in this long document, which page is the right, where this text is included and used for source. If someone can help, please. Thanks. Станислав Николаев (talk) 10:00, 20 January 2023 (UTC)

Did we not learn from Brooke Shields? 
I looked up the IWF for the first time to learn more about modern efforts to take down CSAM (especially when self-uploaded by minors) and make sure it's a good org to donate to. 
And I'm met with…. CSAM. I don't care if it's an album cover. This is extremely jarring and difficult for those of us who have experienced this type of SA. 
On mobile, this image is at the top and much bigger than if viewing in a sidebar on desktop web.  Ieditthethings (talk) 20:56, 4 August 2025 (UTC)

How do you plan to explain to readers then that IWF has blocked Wikipedia because of this image? Without showing the image? Read WP:CENSORED. It says that "Wikipedia may contain content that some readers consider objectionable or offensive‍—‌even exceedingly so." Nemoralis (talk) 10:49, 11 August 2025 (UTC)
It does not need to be the page cover. This puts enlarged CSAM at the very top of the article. this is regarding something that happened nearly 20 years ago and has been reversed.
Wiki doesn't need to fully censor itself but get real, it doesn't need to be the COVER. Wiki has plenty of ways to expand images once clicked.  Ieditthethings (talk) 15:02, 11 August 2025 (UTC)
Wiki has plenty of ways to expand images once clickedI would appreciate it if you did this instead of deleting the image completely. Nemoralis (talk) 15:09, 11 August 2025 (UTC)
Not everyone on here knows formatting templates/techniques on Wiki.
Please fix it yourself or link a resource on how to do this. Thx.  Ieditthethings (talk) 16:57, 11 August 2025 (UTC)