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Wikipedia Could Block 67 Million Verizon Customers

An anonymous reader writes "A particularly nasty Wikipedia vandal has forced a discussion to take place over whether to block edits from an address range used by over 67 million Verizon customers. Verizon has not responded to abusive Wikipedia users on their network before, even though the abusive Verizon users have released private information (phone numbers, etc.) of numerous individuals, and made countless threats that have also been reported to law enforcement. Wikipedia has done something similar in the past with users on the AOL network, which used proxy servers and thus allowed vandals to continue disrupting the site. Discussion is also taking place on alternate solutions to deal with abuse from this Verizon user, named 'Zsfgseg' on Wikipedia. If a block of millions is enacted, Verizon could potentially change how they assign IP addresses, or be forced at least to address a PR nightmare."

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  1. Re:Misleading title by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    People tend to think that Pedophilia is somewhat connected or in relation to homosexuality, however this of course is false. With Pedophilia comes a rather unnerving list of other disorders commonly associated with it (as they do not with homosexuality, in simple terms - A pedo is an insane sociopath, while a fag is just a normal person who likes the same sex), research suggests that pedophilia may be correlated with several different neurological abnormalities, and often co-exists with other personality disorders and psychological pathologies.

    I am not saying that OP is a pedophile (having a liking to girls with small breasts hardly classifies as pedophilia), however he is clearly either a troll (most likely) or just ignorant, as the practices he describes indeed happened, however he fails to mention that these practices only happened to developed females, i.e adults (physically speaking) and not girls/children. To claim this is to claim that massive groups of people were neurologically damaged, seeing the amount of people willing to have sex with children today, this is just false.

  2. Re:Misleading title by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    brb, applying for a job in the TSA.

  3. slashdot utilizes the same practice of IP bans by MichaelKristopeit179 · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    slashdot utilizes the same asinine practice of banning individuals through the process of blocking all access from the last IP address they used.

    the processes is automated and rob malda claims an audit trail does not exist. once, when i reset my modem, i was denied access... i requested the ban be removed and rob malda claimed they didn't know why the IP address had been banned, and that the ban would not be lifted... so i reset my modem again so the next subscriber of the country's largest ISP would be arbitrarily blocked with no appeal by an automated system with no audit trail.

    the slashdot's and wikipedia's system administrators and system architects should be ashamed. they are lazy and ignorant.

    slashdot = stagnated

  4. Re:Misleading title by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    so why u jelly? :3

  5. Re:Misleading title by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A dumbass. Now stop feeding the trolls.

  6. Re:Misleading title by MichaelKristopeit0 · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    i like to suck big nigger cock

    I AM MICHAEL KRISTOPEIT