Both UK ISPs PlusNet and Virgin Media have now furnished us with comments on the current Wikipedia blocking fiasco that, through use of the Internet Watch Foundation's (IWF) block list, has prevented untold numbers of UK Internet users from altering Wiki content (original news). We've pasted the statements below:



Neither ISP comments on the resultant inability of blocked UK Internet users to alter content on Wikipedia itself. It will be interesting to see whether providers are able to resolve the situation without breaking the block.

UPDATE - 1:10pm:

PlusNet informs us that the problem, at least for them, should now be solved as they have always passed the "X-Forwarded-For" header for IP addresses and Wikipedia has now added the ISP to their trusted proxies list.