I shall split discussion about Tor into another thread, so we can discuss the verifiability policy and systemic bias in this thread.
2007/8/15, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com:
On 12/08/07, J.L.W.S. The Special One hildanknight@gmail.com wrote:
Could we start a new thread about this issue?
I don't think it's worth blocking over a billion people to stop a few vandals and sockpuppets.
"over a billion people"?
We're not blocking a billion people. The Chinese government, in their infinite wisdom, is blocking a billion people. There are ways for people to evade this block; a tiny fraction of those billion know about them.
Of those ways, some happen to be using systems that we consider a systematic security problem. We block the systematic security problems not because we don't want China to edit, but because experience has shown they get massively abused. Yes, this sucks for all concerned.
But throwng hyperbole around just makes it harder to rationally work out what to do... are there seriously a billion people who would ever be using these kinds of proxies?
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