Your policy of indiscriminate blocking of edits from IP addresses of the TOR anonymous network is a serious violation of individual privacy. At the moment you generate a "User is blocked" page as tor is classified as "open proxy". OK, I understand that you want to prevent abuse from open proxies when the use is not logged in, but WHY BLOCK LOGGED IN USERS who use the Tor network only because they don't want everyone (and any government agencies) to be able to track what they are personally interested in.
Please block only users who are not logged in from open proxies. Abuse from logged in users can be dealt with by blocking the user rather than the IP of the open proxy. Please don't be indiscriminate, please don't block innocent users who prefer privacy.
This is very important. I realized I cannot edit Wikipedia any more if anyone can check everything I am interested in. Thanks!
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Because that would allow trolls and vandals and other evil items to make accounts using a tor, and freely evade any ban. I really don't see why any government would care what you're doing..
On 8/1/05, Tor Ville tor_ville@yahoo.com wrote:
Your policy of indiscriminate blocking of edits from IP addresses of the TOR anonymous network is a serious violation of individual privacy. At the moment you generate a "User is blocked" page as tor is classified as "open proxy". OK, I understand that you want to prevent abuse from open proxies when the use is not logged in, but WHY BLOCK LOGGED IN USERS who use the Tor network only because they don't want everyone (and any government agencies) to be able to track what they are personally interested in.
Please block only users who are not logged in from open proxies. Abuse from logged in users can be dealt with by blocking the user rather than the IP of the open proxy. Please don't be indiscriminate, please don't block innocent users who prefer privacy.
This is very important. I realized I cannot edit Wikipedia any more if anyone can check everything I am interested in. Thanks!
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On 8/1/05, Tor Ville tor_ville@yahoo.com wrote:
Your policy of indiscriminate blocking of edits from IP addresses of the TOR anonymous network is a serious violation of individual privacy.
The blocking of open proxies would only be violating your privacy if we were also forcing you to edit. You can choose not to.
OK, I understand that you want to prevent abuse from open proxies when the use is not logged in, but WHY BLOCK LOGGED IN USERS who use the Tor network
We currently have no method of blocking only unregistered users or only logged in users. If a registered user is blocked, it blocks their name and IP. If an unregistered user is blocked, their IP and any names they attempt to create during the blocking period will be blocked.
See http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=550
Angela.