[WikiEN-l] Re: Tor horror stories

Tue Sep 27 18:45:44 UTC 2005

On 9/27/05, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> David Gerard wrote:

> > I can see the place of anonymity on Wikinews, for example - reporting
> > about something you don't want your name linked to as yet. But I
> > really cannot see that a case has been made for Tor-level anonymity if
> > the mission statement is "We're here to write an encyclopedia." Even
> > for regular open proxy anonymity.

> You have a point, but I like to think of people in mainland China being
> able to edit [[Falun Gong]] without feeling a cloud of worry.  Even NPOV
> editing might be misconstrued by some authority somewhere, and people
> have kids, jobs, families, and might prefer to just stay away rather
> than take a risk.

Yeah. I'll see if I can gather actual data, not just an impression.

- d.