On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Martijn Hoekstra <[email protected]> wrote: > On Aug 21, 2013 8:56 AM, "Peter Gervai" <[email protected]> wrote:
> The account and/or underlying IP is > blocked. That is the technical impediment. The action that is now a federal > offense, it seems, is to defy the warning, by circumventing the block by > changing IP and/or account to do what you were told not to do on the > warning. Technicalities aside if I follow you right then it is a federal offense to edit Wikipedia when you were told not to (eg. banned but _not_ blocked). If that's the case the IP part of the discussion is mainly irrelevant as one does not have to evade a block to violate the ban. > The central issue though, that it > seems block evasion is a federal offense, is not affected by the difficulty > in proving evidence for it. It is the question whether the evasion is a > crime that bothers me. [insert meetoo here] g _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
