[WikiEN-l] Blocking of Tor exit nodes

[David Gerard]

On 02/06/07, Charlotte Webb <charlottethewebb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/2/07, Slowking Man <slowkingman at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Blaming Wikipedia for denying access to Chinese users strikes me as
> > rather fallacious, since we're not the ones doing the blocking. A more
> > appropriate target for criticism would be the Chinese government.

> It's not fallacious, given the common belief that (unlike the Chinese
> government) Wikipedia is run by reasonable and amenable people.


It is. The trouble is that in practice, almost everyone using Tor
nodes on Wikipedia are vandals and trolls working through them.
Really.


- d.