The point is that this group goes around preventing other people from accessing this or that, and neither the website nor the visitors get a fair notification. The way they handled this one was loopy, and if Wikipedia didn't have such heavy traffic it probably would have gone unnoticed.
So what else *does* go unnoticed? -Durova On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Thomas Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > 2008/12/8 Gregory Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Thomas Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> 2008/12/8 Durova <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>> Overall, good. I'll also be blunt: the 'experiment' speculation at the > end > >>> handed her a very strong close for the end of the interview. > Everyone's a > >>> critic (and these things are so much easier to second guess after the > fact), > >>> yet if another interview such as this comes up it would make a stronger > >>> finish to wonder how many other websites had been blocked by this > >>> organization's dubious assessments without appeal, and ask whether > they're > >>> really qualified to play nanny to the public. > >> > >> Apparently there is a way to appeal, but from I can tell nobody wants > >> to tell us what it is. > > > > How do we appeal whatever else they might be blocking? For all we > > know there could be dozens of other articles blocked now or in the > > future. > > > > We only know that this page is being blocked because the traffic > > hijacking caused collateral damage and someone took a lucky guess. > > True, right of appeal doesn't help much with the right to know what > you are charged with. > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > -- http://durova.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
