On 15 Jun 2007 at 23:45, "Joe Szilagyi" szilagyi@gmail.com wrote:

Is it appropriate for a CheckUser to disclose on someone's RFA the methods of *how* they connect to edit Wikipedia? Here, Jayjg disclosed that CharlotteWeb edited from Tor previously:

An interesting aspect to the whole issue is the fact that it appears that the same group of people who is so fervently in favor of banning all links to so-called "attack sites" -- supposedly for the purpose of protecting the privacy of editors "outed" there (said "outings" being done by those sites with the supposed justification of imposing "accountability" on those editors) -- is also fervently in favor of maintaining the ban on editing through open proxies (the users of which are doing so in order to protect their privacy, but opponents of which claim gets in the way of "accountability"). In both cases, they demand rigid, draconian enforcement "on sight", without discretion.