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Wikipedia Blocks Qatar Slashdot - 35 minutes ago GrumpySimon writes "Wikipedia has blocked the entire country of Qatar from editing pages. Whilst the ban is due to spam-abuse coming ...
GrumpySimon writes "Wikipedia has blocked the entire country of Qatar from editing pages. Whilst the ban is due to spam-abuse coming from the IP address in question, the fact that this belongs to the country's sole high-speed internet provider has the unintended consequence of stopping Qatarese from editing the wiki. The ban has raised concerns about impartiality — the majority of Al Jazeera ...
Wikipedia Blocks Qatar Slashdot - 8 minutes ago GrumpySimon writes "Wikipedia has blocked the entire country of Qatar from editing pages. ... Says the guy who uses a Wikipedia link to back up his assertions... ...
Wikipedia Blocks Qatar Slashdot - 4 hours ago GrumpySimon writes "Wikipedia has blocked the entire country of Qatar from editing pages. Whilst the ban is due to spam-abuse coming from the IP address in ...
Wikipedia denies banning Qatar Inquirer, UK - 51 minutes ago Qatar, being a one ISP country, suffered when Wikipedia's bots decided that the ISP's IP address should not be allowed to post because it was used for vandalism ...
Wikipedia Bans Qatar Users Due To Net Vandalism All Headline News - 40 minutes ago West Palm Beach, FL (AHN) - Following repeated incidents of net vandalism, Web encyclopedia Wikipedia banned anonymous posts from users in Qatar. ...
Wikipedia edit blackout for Qatar CNET News.com, CA - 21 minutes ago In an effort to stop "chronic vandalism and spam," Wikipedia administrators issued the block to a specific IP address assigned to Qatari ISP Qtel. ...
Web encyclopaedia Wikipedia has banned anonymous posts to its site from people in Qatar after repeated net vandalism. The ban hits everyone in the country because all web traffic in Qatar is routed through a single net address.
GrumpySimon writes "Wikipedia has blocked the entire country of Qatar from editing pages. Whilst the ban is due to spam-abuse coming from the IP address in question, the fact that this belongs to the country's sole high-speed internet provider has the unintended consequence of stopping Qataris from editing the wiki. The ban has raised concerns about impartiality — the majority of Al Jazeera ...
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I knew a website where the site owner waas kinda a nazi. He blocked all of France from viewing the site for years and years. He also moderated a gaming company's forum and if you expressed a viewpoint of a Democrat, he'd see your IP and ban it from viewing his website. People generally had to use proxies to view it.
Then on IRC before 2000 they always loved to ban all of AOL from their rooms.
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Interesting... I've heard stories like that too, though they were mostly about my Aunt Betty's Coffee Klatsch.
Maybe this is of less relevance to this news story than I think it is, but I've always been struck by the eagerness of WP'ers to cry "censorship" when someone wants an article or category deleted, and yet that word is rarely used in conjunction with banning people. And they've been slow to enable more sophisticated controls WRT blocking of users and IP's... I should think that blocks 'n' bans are a far more serious act of censorship than simply deleting an article or two. (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/huh.gif)
After a spate of article vandalism, the Wikipedia online encyclopedia effectively blocked anonymous posts from all Qatar just by banning a single IP address.
Wikipedia denies Qatar users subject to ban CBC Nova Scotia, Canada - 21 minutes ago The founder of Wikipedia denied reports the online encyclopedia had banned users in Qatar from editing entries, saying users there were temporarily blocked ...
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