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What had been brewing up to become another battle between the law and online services, has been resolved sooner than anticipated. The ban put on Wikipedia in the U.K by IWF has been removed after Jimmy Wales threatened to take IWF to the court. IWF pulled back on its decision because it thought the action taken by it invited more attention to the issue and the image itself, stating in its release:

The procedure is now complete and has confirmed that the image in question is potentially in breach of the Protection of Children Act 1978. However, the IWF Board has today (9 December 2008) considered these findings and the contextual issues involved in this specific case and, in light of the length of time the image has existed and its wide availability, the decision has been taken to remove this webpage from our list.

 I guess the pressure that IWF faced with many a ordinary users being impacted by the decision forced the reversal. IWF is going to lose a lot of credibility if it keeps taking decisions and reverses them for any reason what so ever.