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The administrator who blocked you may contribute, but any decision will be made by the reviewing administrator who takes all points made into account. If the reviewing administrator thinks it is necessary, or it is required by policy (such as community bans or equivalent ), the reviewing administrator may open a thread at the administrative ...
Internet censorship circumvention is the use of various methods and tools to bypass internet censorship. There are many different techniques to bypass such censorship, each with unique challenges regarding ease of use, speed, and security risks.
MediaWiki, the wiki software that powers Wikipedia, depends on IP addresses for administrator intervention against abuse, especially by unregistered users. Open proxies allow malicious users to change IP addresses rapidly, causing continuous disruption that cannot easily be stopped by administrators.
Hundreds of US news websites are not globally accessible as they have blocked visitors from the EU due to the GDPR. [1] [2] Some workarounds are listed here to allow those who are affected by this to access those sites anyway.
The outgoing administration intends to launch an ICE Portal app starting in early December in New York City that will allow migrants to bypass in-person check-ins to their local ICE office.
A blocked administrator can block the blocking administrator, but should only do so in exceptional circumstances where there is a clear and immediate need, such as in the case of a compromised account. Use of the block tool to further a dispute or retaliate against the original blocking administrator is not allowed.
Meta's Threads platform started blocking users from the European Union who used VPNs to bypass the access restriction to the service stemming from the privacy concerns of the app. [27] However, as of December 14, 2023, [needs update] the platform was accessible to users in the European Union.
A1: A block prevents a user account, an IP address, or a range of IP addresses from editing Wikipedia, either partially or entirely. Blocked users can still open, access, and read any article or page on Wikipedia; they just cannot modify or edit any pages that are restricted by the block.