[Foundation-l] and what if...

[Anthony]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>wrote:

> 2008/12/12 Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>:
> > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 5:52 AM, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> If tomorrow, a really illegal-in-UK image is reported to the IWF, they
> >> will block it for real. And they will block again editing.
> >
> >
> > "They" didn't block editing.  "You" did.
>
> Technically, yes, but they made it impossible for us to do anything else.
>

I think at this point you have to describe what you mean by "block editing",
then.

> On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 6:44 AM, Dan Collins <en.wp.st47 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Do you have a suggestion? Not everyone uses XFF, certainly not ISPs
> >> with dynamic IPs, how would you suggest we block anonymous users?
> >
> >
> > If you want to block anonymous users, block anonymous users.  If you want
> to
> > allow anonymous users to edit, then understand that you can't block
> anyone.
> >
> > If someone is anonymous, then you don't know who they are, so you don't
> know
> > whether or not they're blocked.
>
> That's nonsense. In the vast majority of cases there is a one-to-one
> correspondence between IP addresses and users (at least over the short
> term) and blocking by IP address works very well.


If there is a one-to-one correspondence between IP addresses and users, then
there isn't any anonymity, is there?