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Should they make Tor illegal too then because it helps you stay anonymous? Should they make it illegal for people to sign-up with a fake name to social networks
by nextparadigms 15y ago
Should they make Tor illegal too then because it helps you stay anonymous? Should they make it illegal for people to sign-up with a fake name to social networks, websites and commenting systems?
Just because something is anonymous doesn't make it inherently bad. It's how you use it that can make it bad. If hackers can hack into sites anonymously, it doesn't mean we should ban all anonymity.
- oelewapperke 15y agoOf course it doesn't. But you must see the other end of the stick. With Bitcoin in operation ... all the bad of governments disappears ... and so does all the good. Just a few things truly anonymous money makes untouchable : you're reintroducing slavery, including child and sexual slavery and making it much more intractable to fight you're giving up the war on drugs. Not just soft drugs but every drug. you're making fraud, not just tax fraud, impossible to detect (especially for purely financial firms where money is both the input and the output) The control governments have is there for a reason. Do you think the freedom bitcoin provides (although bitcoin is not really anonymous enough I think) is worth causing the above mentioned problems ?
- redthrowaway 15y agoTor is a case of one hand not knowing what the other was doing, in that LEAs hate it but it was developed by navy intelligence, and a lot of people had to use it in order for it to be effective. When law enforcement goes up against the military, law enforcement loses. That's not the case with bitcoin.