Erik Moeller writes:
We need knowledgeable people in countries like China to be able to
write about the facts without fear of ending up in a labor camp.
I think if a repressive regime wants to track the Internet writings of people living there, an anonymous web proxy is not going to stop them.
If I had ever once seen an anonymizer used in such a manner on Wikipedia, I would agree with Erik that it is worth putting up with the extra vandalism. However, I never have.
-Hephaestos
On 02/14/04 at 11:14 PM, John Robinson john@freeq.com said:
I think if a repressive regime wants to track the Internet writings of people living there, an anonymous web proxy is not going to stop them.
If I had ever once seen an anonymizer used in such a manner on Wikipedia, I would agree with Erik that it is worth putting up with the extra vandalism. However, I never have.
But how would one know? Would it be possible, for example, to analyze the server logs to determine whether there are people making useful edits via anon proxies? Has this ever been done?
V.
--- John Robinson john@freeq.com wrote:
Erik Moeller writes:
We need knowledgeable people in countries like China to be able to
write about the facts without fear of ending up in a labor camp.
I think if a repressive regime wants to track the Internet writings of people living there, an anonymous web proxy is not going to stop them.
If I had ever once seen an anonymizer used in such a manner on Wikipedia, I would agree with Erik that it is worth putting up with the extra vandalism. However, I never have.
Please explain how you would have noticed an anonymizer being used in such a fashion.
Zero.
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