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#::::Using and hosting open proxies on personal computers is a practice that is legal in most of the world — and does not require you to use compromised or misconfigured hardware. All it requires is that you connect to a server hosting an open proxy.
#::::Your argument amounts to wafting away a gardener from his job while cutting the rose-bushes, because: "his garden-scissors could be stolen — and he might be an illegal immigrant too". '''Just because you don't happened to like what he did doesn't mean it was illegal!''' [[User:CFCF|<span style="color:#014225;font-family: Copperplate Gothic Bold;text-shadow:0px -1px 0px #014225;">Carl Fredik</span>]]<span style="font-size: .90em;">[[User talk:CFCF| 💌]] [[Special:EmailUser/CFCF|📧]]</span> 10:02, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
#:::::Anyway, the legality of the mechanism isn't something relevant to us. WMF didn't do anything that you mention, so it's not liable, and regardless of the mechanism used, the action was stopped because it was in violation of our policies, so WMF isn't liable for countenancing something illegal. Both of them are unrelated to the issue of continuing to prevent people from using it through legal means. [[User:Nyttend|Nyttend]] ([[User talk:Nyttend|talk]]) 15:21, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
#:{{rto|David Gerard}} ".. way too useful to encyclopedic purposes", yet in the 2 1/2 years that this was monitored, you felt only [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:AbuseLog?wpSearchUser=David+Gerard&wpSearchTitle=&wpSearchFilter=559 once] to use the site and apparently have found alternatives in all other cases where these encyclopedic purposes needed to be met. --[[User:Beetstra|Dirk Beetstra]] <sup>[[User_Talk:Beetstra|<span style="color:#0000FF;">T</span>]] [[Special:Contributions/Beetstra|<span style="color:#0000FF;">C</span>]]</sup> 05:29, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
#:Whatever you're measuring is incorrect - I have preferred archive.org links, but (e.g. when h-online took down its entire archive) had to resort to archive.is several times when there was no other copy I could find.
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