On 6/16/14, grarpamp grarpamp@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Jeroen Massar jeroen@massar.ch wrote:
If an operator does not want you on their site, do not circumvent it. You are thus stating: I want to circumvent a site's decision to block me.
No, you are still not understanding a (not so delicate, yet very important) distinction...
- IP blocking is NOT blocking a particular single user context (ie:
'you', 'me', joe, jane, anonuser1543), it is blocking whoever happens to be using that IP [1].
In my opinion, that is wrong because it takes out innocent users and thus I'm happy to suggest any number of ways to push back against it until this effectively 'anti-innocent' model changes.
This is foundational I say - some of us are willing to give up a little (or a lot) of convenience, for the long term benefits/ freedoms which we anticipate and strive for.
Today we have an abundance of libre/free software. When Richard Stallman, and later others, sacrificed their time and their statutory proprietary-ownership possibilities, for the long term vision, they did not have the abundance that has since been created - their sacrifice was MUCH greater than ours today.
Yet the spirit of sacrifice/inconvenience for the longer term greater good, lives strongly in some of us.
I wholeheartedly support those who live this principle.
Rock on! Zenaan