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Society benefits when people refrain from illegal and immoral activities.
by supportengineer 2y ago
Society benefits when people refrain from illegal and immoral activities.
- barbazoo 2y agoAre you implying that Tor is primarily used for illegal or "immoral" purposes?
- fsckboy 2y agoare you implying that Tor is not used for illegal or immoral purposes? (I took out the primarily that you threw in to make your argument stronger because that made my argument stronger, and I took out your scare quotes because morality doesn't scare me)
- barbazoo 2y agoI have no idea who is using Tor other than that I heard it can be used by people requiring privacy from governments, e.g. whistleblowers. It also seems to have broad support from the tech industry so I'd be surprised if it was in fact primarily used for illegal or "immoral" purposes. That's why I'm asking.
- alt187 2y agoWhat's a scare quote?
- fsckboy 2y agodid your search button break? lmgtfy https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=scare+quotes https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=scare+quotes this is a helpful answer, downvoting it would be extremely bad form
- lukan 2y agoI would assume very likely yes? There definitely are legit use cases for it and in an ideal world, I think all traffic should go over onion routing by default to protect them. But in reality today besides a handful of idealists (like me some years ago), and legitimate users, like protestors under oppressive regimes - I would assume the biggest group with a concrete interest to hide would be indeed pedophiles and other dark net members and therefore use it.
- yupyupyups 2y agoI'm pretty sure many people use Tor for other things than journalism and CP. Tor is a privacy tool. Much of what we do in our lives is on the internet, and privacy is important. Tor helps people enjoy privacy in a medium that they are increasingly dependant on.
- bmicraft 2y agoTor also helps you to increase your average loading time of a webpage to 10x. That's a very good deterrent against using it if you don't need it for some reason
- edm0nd 2y agoYou would assume wrong then. The majority of Tor traffic is just normal people, not illegal stuffs. The regular internet aka clearnet has far more malicious activity and traffic.
- lukan 2y agoCan you link to some data, that proofs this? I have no data, just assumptions.
- BLKNSLVR 2y agoPoliticians and the powers-that-be benefit from slowly adding to the existing pile of what's considered illegal and immoral. They build that pile as a levee against threats to their power; to maintain the status quo. Immoral is as subjective as it gets and is therefore an awful yardstick.