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Re: 212.117.165.197 or steinsel.perfect-privacy.com
editHi, I can't find any blocks on that IP, but I still think IPs from that service should be blocked because it acts as an anonymizer by hiding your normal address. If you find yourself blocked again, you can post an unblock request by adding {{unblock|your reason here}} below and request for IP block exemption. Thanks, Spellcast (talk) 16:11, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks for your reply, Spellcast. Every edit page still tells me I'm blocked by you until 05:09, 6 January 2014. I'm appending the unblock request below. Sbstn (talk) 16:22, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
Sbstn (block log • active blocks • global blocks • contribs • deleted contribs • filter log • creation log • change block settings • unblock • checkuser (log))
Request reason:
I would like my IP 212.117.165.197 to be unblocked from editing when logged in for the following reasons: Due to excessive data retention and eavesdropping policies recently implemented by the government of my home country on the one hand, nosy neighbours on the unencrypted WIFI Network I often have to use on the other hand, I heavily depend on privacy services like the one the above IP belongs to. With more and more countries implementing policies as mentioned above worldwide, I believe it is safe to say that privacy services will become much more widespread in the near future. I would love to contribute to Wikipedia more often. Having to disable my VPN connection as well as my Email-Client, Browser, Messaging programms etc, in order to edit each small mistake I find in an article, however, makes it too tedious for me. I do not see the problem with allowing users that are logged in to edit even if they are using a privacy service. If you want to ban them, why not just ban their account instead of their IP? Thanks in advance
Decline reason:
Neither 212.117.165.197 nor Sbstn has ever been blocked on the English Wikipedia. Sbstn clearly is not blocked, as that account edited four minutes after this unblock request was made. I can only suspect that you're using some privacy framework like Tor, which we block by policy, or some other network routing framework, in which case you'd need to place the unblock request using the appropriate IP. But as 212.117.165.197 and Sbstn aren't blocked, we can't unblock that which we didn't block Finlay McWalter • Talk 17:23, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
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