I was trying to edit something on Wikipedia, my real IP is banned for some reason. So I tried probably 10 different VPNs (some paid some free), somehow Wikipedia was able to ban all the ones I tried, even the obfuscated servers that are supposedly working in China. It's so interesting that Wikipedia always maintained that anyone can edit it, but in reality the leftists who have control of Wikipedia actually control it quite tightly.

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Wingless wrote on July 8, 2021 at 2:14 PM

It's been true a long time. The ideal was an "encyclopedia anyone could edit" with "the sum of all human knowledge". Now it is 1000000 times more important to leave out what needs to be left out, than to include what needs to be included, so they use unlimited, creepy, secret means to track users, which necessitates blocking proxies. We have no idea what kind of tactics they really use, but what leaks from their vague descriptions of "behavioral characteristics" in their so-called "AN/I" board is that they are probably using (at least) browser fingerprinting tactics. But they also supplant with a strong dose of simply banning anything they're not sure about or don't understand.

Every for-profit is corrupt, every non-profit is corrupt, and a cabal of spies rules over them all.

Strangeways wrote on July 26, 2021 at 10:48 PM

Perhaps regional geo-blocking through a CDN like Cloudflare, or whoever it is they use. Just a guess.

9995Deluxe wrote on July 28, 2021 at 7:33 AM

Sadly, I'm not surprised Wikipedia is doing this. There are many malicious users who use VPNs, Tor, and other anonymity tools to put false information on their platform. By preventing editing of content by people who use these tools, platforms like Wikipedia is able to maintain their credibility.