David Gerard wrote:
Tim Starling wrote:
At least my proposal serves to highlight our differences in viewpoint. Tor supporters like to justify their existence from the moral high ground of protection against government persecution or industrial espionage. But what the bulk of Tor users are really interested in is obscuring their identity server administrators, and that carries with it a different set of ethical implications.
I can see the place of anonymity on Wikinews, for example - reporting about something you don't want your name linked to as yet. But I really cannot see that a case has been made for Tor-level anonymity if the mission statement is "We're here to write an encyclopedia." Even for regular open proxy anonymity.
You have a point, but I like to think of people in mainland China being able to edit [[Falun Gong]] without feeling a cloud of worry. Even NPOV editing might be misconstrued by some authority somewhere, and people have kids, jobs, families, and might prefer to just stay away rather than take a risk.
--Jimbo