When we speak of Internet censorship, we tend to think of China, or any other country where the freedom of speech is not well perceived. But this time, we’re talking about the UK, where users have been denied access to a Wikipedia article containing a cover of The Scorpions’ 1976 album “Virgin Killer.”

The original album cover, which is present in the article, depicts a naked girl who appears to be underage, according to the Internet Watch Foundation. According to a statement released by IFW, the content was considered to be a potentially illegal indecent image of a child under the age of 18.

As a consequence, the URL was blacklisted, and IFW informed ISPs and other companies in the online sector to block it, in what they say was an action to protect customers from “inadvertent exposure to a potentially illegal indecent image of a child.”

A statement by Wikimedia Foundation General Counsel Mike Godwin writes: “We have no reason to believe the article, or the image contained in the article, has been held to be illegal in any jurisdiction anywhere in the world.”

According to the statement, the controversial image is also present on Amazon, where UK residents can purchase the album, and also on thousands of other websites that are accessible from the UK. Furthermore, the IFW did not just block the image, but the access to the entire content of the article.

In addition to that, Wikimedia Foundation also reported UK users have complained about performance issues while trying to access the website, even if the parts they were trying to access or edit had nothing to do with the article mentioned earlier.

The questions on everyone’s mind at this point are: did IFW act in a legal manner? Are they entitled to decide what we should have access to, is this censorship, or is this a normal step toward tackling online child pornography?