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Anonymity is directly related to the concept of obscurantism or pseudonymity, where an artist or a group attempts to remain anonymous, for various reasons such as adding an element of mystique to themselves or their work, attempting to avoid what is known as the "cult of personality" or hero worship (in which the charisma, good looks, wealth or ...
Anonymous is the first internet-based super-consciousness. Anonymous is a group, in the sense that a flock of birds is a group. How do you know they’re a group? Because they’re travelling in the same direction. At any given moment, more birds could join, leave, peel off in another direction entirely. [61]
But in general, IP editing is less anonymous than registering a username. IP addresses in many cases can be traced to an exact location. IP addresses in many cases can be traced to an exact location. On the other hand, if you create an account and edit under that, your IP address will be hidden from most users (though it can be obtained by a ...
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The Tor Project, Inc. was founded on December 22, 2006 [5] by computer scientists Roger Dingledine, Nick Mathewson and five others. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) acted as the Tor Project's fiscal sponsor in its early years, and early financial supporters of the Tor Project included the U.S. International Broadcasting Bureau, Internews, Human Rights Watch, the University of Cambridge ...
Wikipedia withholds certain "buttons" from most users. These "buttons" are, for example, the ability to delete an article or block a user. In nearly all cases, it is the Wikipedia community that decides who may have access to these "buttons". The community decides whether a user can have these privileges based on evidence that they are ...
Tor is an anonymity and censorship circumvention network. Due to abuse by vandals, Tor exit nodes are usually blocked from editing Wikipedia. Tor users who wish to edit Wikipedia have to request IP block exemption. No restrictions are placed on reading Wikipedia through Tor.
As Wikipedia has grown to become one of the most popular websites on the internet, accessed daily by millions, numerous attempts have been made to develop a consistent way of protecting the private personal information [1] of those who create and develop its content, while at the same time protecting the encyclopedia from abusive editing practices.