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I would throw some money each month at Tor if all the project did was provide a way to access the Internet anonymously, but I find it very difficult to support

I would throw some money each month at Tor if all the project did was provide a way to access the Internet anonymously, but I find it very difficult to support it, given that .onions are a thing and we all know what gets hosted there. I'll never run a node for the same reason, I don't want computers of mine to be used for CSAM distribution. The ability to connect to the Internet anonymously is invaluable, but I consider the server obfuscation part of the project straight up evil. Which is unfortunate, they could've easily stopped at the good thing.

mnmalst 1y ago
What's the point of having free access to the internet if there is no free internet? Seeing in what direction the world goes, access to a space where content can be distributed freely becomes more important than it ever was.
crtasm 1y ago
.onions also power tools such as https://securedrop.org/ https://securedrop.org/ from https://freedom.press/ https://freedom.press/
Hizonner 1y ago
Your admirably narrow obsession has been noted with approval. Congratulations on your usefulness. We look forward to manipulating you further.
atomic128 1y ago
There is a wide variety of activity in the Tor hidden service ecosystem. I publish up-to-date HTTP response dumps from all the major hidden services here: https://rnsaffn.com/zg4/ https://rnsaffn.com/zg4/ Much of it, but not all of it, is illegal activity.
bigbadfeline 1y ago
You've got some snarky replies here but TOR policies, inadvertently or deliberately, push TOR into being exclusively a crime tool.
- Hizonner 1y ago
  Like what policies? And how have they failed, since in fact Tor is not exclusively a crime tool? But, yeah, Tor is often a crime tool. It's a crime to be actively gay, or to support anybody in that, in a surprising amount of the world. It's a crime to have the wrong religion, or no religion, in a roughly similar amount of the world, at least if you dare to talk about it. It's a crime to criticize the government, or plan even the most peaceful action to undermine its policies, in an even more surprising amount of the world. It's a crime, in a lot of places, to talk about embarrassing war crimes. It's a crime almost everywhere to talk about classified war crimes... which is awfully convenient if you're in a position to classify your embarrassing war crimes. The Party claims it's a crime to for US citizens to tell US other citizens what US federal officers are up to. Oh, and the nonexistent "Antifa" is now a designated terrorist group, and you can absolutely expect them to try to treat planning totally peaceful protests as "material support for terrorism". Not real crimes? They're lying pieces of shit? That's nice, but the security measures you need are the same even so. Anything that can support things that need to be supported is also going to be useful for things that are illegal, and even for things that are truly evil. That's part of the price. The technical needs are inseparable. You don't want a world where it's totally impossible to get away with breaking laws under any circumstances whatsoever. Or at least you shouldn't. Right now, especially, is a hell of a bad time for people on this US-dominated site to be trying to make things easier for police states.

mnmalst 1y ago

What's the point of having free access to the internet if there is no free internet? Seeing in what direction the world goes, access to a space where content can be distributed freely becomes more important than it ever was.

crtasm 1y ago

.onions also power tools such as https://securedrop.org/ https://securedrop.org/ from https://freedom.press/ https://freedom.press/

Hizonner 1y ago

Your admirably narrow obsession has been noted with approval. Congratulations on your usefulness. We look forward to manipulating you further.

atomic128 1y ago

There is a wide variety of activity in the Tor hidden service ecosystem. I publish up-to-date HTTP response dumps from all the major hidden services here: https://rnsaffn.com/zg4/ https://rnsaffn.com/zg4/ Much of it, but not all of it, is illegal activity.

bigbadfeline 1y ago

You've got some snarky replies here but TOR policies, inadvertently or deliberately, push TOR into being exclusively a crime tool.

Hizonner 1y ago
Like what policies? And how have they failed, since in fact Tor is not exclusively a crime tool? But, yeah, Tor is often a crime tool. It's a crime to be actively gay, or to support anybody in that, in a surprising amount of the world. It's a crime to have the wrong religion, or no religion, in a roughly similar amount of the world, at least if you dare to talk about it. It's a crime to criticize the government, or plan even the most peaceful action to undermine its policies, in an even more surprising amount of the world. It's a crime, in a lot of places, to talk about embarrassing war crimes. It's a crime almost everywhere to talk about classified war crimes... which is awfully convenient if you're in a position to classify your embarrassing war crimes. The Party claims it's a crime to for US citizens to tell US other citizens what US federal officers are up to. Oh, and the nonexistent "Antifa" is now a designated terrorist group, and you can absolutely expect them to try to treat planning totally peaceful protests as "material support for terrorism". Not real crimes? They're lying pieces of shit? That's nice, but the security measures you need are the same even so. Anything that can support things that need to be supported is also going to be useful for things that are illegal, and even for things that are truly evil. That's part of the price. The technical needs are inseparable. You don't want a world where it's totally impossible to get away with breaking laws under any circumstances whatsoever. Or at least you shouldn't. Right now, especially, is a hell of a bad time for people on this US-dominated site to be trying to make things easier for police states.