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(a)gmail.com>om>:
On 12/08/07, J.L.W.S. The Special One <hildanknight(a)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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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
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