2008/12/9 Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com:
Right now we're just talking politely. At best you can say we're not being instantly cowed by demands by some private organization, over material which as far as we can tell both contributes to our mission (in however minor a way) and which is not illegal. I think this is good because if we were to do otherwise there would be no clear place to stop.
Explaining factual information in detail is what we're good at and what we basically do. So far, it's working quite well :-D
The editing problems are purely from the technical incompetence in the manner in which the UK censorship is being performed, and not from the censorship itself. So long as the UK networks use censorship run in a technically broken way we can have no safety no matter what we host. Your dichotomy is a false one. (2) All of the proxies should be sending the XFF header to avoid the collateral damage. (a few did, and we we accept the header from them now)
In the case of Virgin Media, we spent months a few years ago getting them to get their XFF headers in a reliable and sensible condition so not all NTL/Virgin users appeared to be coming from their huge city-wide proxies, but from their individual IPs. Virgin switched that off on Saturday and are making out that the resulting breakage is somehow our doing and not theirs. This is more than a little obnoxious of them.
- d.