Living in a Western democracy doesn't necessarily mean that you can surf the web or use internet services freely, look at all those blocks for Bittorrent, the dozens of blocks for Nazi hosters, and especially the German court decision about YouPorn, which actually led to >2 million websites being invisible by Arcor customers; they can only be helped through proxys (though I don't think watching porn via proxys is good).
Marco
Most ISPs and indeed most places generally, even workplaces, don't block Wikipedia. "Argumentum ad YouPorn" won't really apply.
FT2
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 8:38 PM, FT2 ft2.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Most ISPs and indeed most places generally, even workplaces, don't block Wikipedia. "Argumentum ad YouPorn" won't really apply.
And if they did (I'm sure some workplaces do), I don't think there's any particular reason we need to give people tools to violate the terms of service of their ISP. If a workplace blocks Wikipedia, they probably do it for the perfectly sensible reason that they're paying employees to work, not to edit Wikipedia.
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