Internet Watch Foundation and Wikipedia

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On 5 December 2008, the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), a British watchdog group, blacklisted content on the English Wikipedia related to Scorpions' 1976 studio album Virgin Killer, due to the presence of its controversial cover artwork, depicting a ten-year-old girl posing nude, with a faux shattered-glass effect obscuring her genitalia.

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