alecmJan 27

“The UK war on VPNs is an embarrassment” | Jimmy Wales

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The UK war on VPNs is an embarassment.  For child safety, we should be teaching children about Internet safety – including why you should use a VPN to protect your privacy, block malware, etc.

To keep children safe, we are legislating to prevent them being safer online?  Mad.

https://x.com/jimmy_wales/status/2015799679762448515?s=20

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Jimmy Wales (@jimmy_wales) on X

The UK war on VPNs is an embarassment. For child safety, we should be teaching children about Internet safety - including why you should use a VPN to protect your privacy, block malware, etc. To keep children safe, we are legislating to prevent them being safer online? Mad.

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Show threadM. Doucet
@alecm That's pretty rich coming from a guy who's site that "everyone can edit" excludes people who use a VPN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Open_proxies
Wikipedia:Open proxies - Wikipedia

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Show threadalecmJan 27
@mdoucet Speaking as somebody who once set up a Tor Onion proxy for Wikipedia, I can give him a pass on this one. Aside from the fact that sites should be sovereign to create their own acceptable use policies, the freedom to do so includes making assumptions about what kinds of behaviour come from what kinds of system. If a person chooses to edit Wikipedia without logging in, the identity assigned to them is their IP address for at least some manner of reputation management. With VPNs even this model collapses – as opposed to a Tor Onion site which would at least offer some reunification of Tor-based anonymous edit identities. https://wikimedia.org.uk/2017/11/4128/
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Show threadM. DoucetJan 27
@alecm You mention it exactly, as does your article: It's that even VPN users in affected ranges who are logged in are still blocked from editing unless granted an exemption. Did your Tor project allow verified accounts editing access?