On 20/02/07, Mark E mark@edwards.org wrote:
I see. Block Tor exit nodes. Translated: "Punish 10's of thousands of college students, business users, and ISP customers, because of the actions of one or two people." Uh, ya. Blocking open proxies is one thing. No wonder one of the settings in the Tor client was called "Fascist Firewall" -- if you catch my drift.
The reason they're blocked is the practical problem: despite theoretically being sources of valuable content, in practice they're a firehose of sewage.
Even Freenode blocked all Tor users for quite a while.
<Tony_Sidaway> "WHY DO YOU HATE FREEDOM?" nearly always translates to "WHY DO YOU HATE PEOPLE COMING AND SPRAYING PISS ALL OVER YOUR LIVING ROOM?"
- d.