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It doesn't matter why.
by hawleyal 13y ago
It doesn't matter why.
- mooism2 13y agoIn an immediate sense, no, it doesn't matter why. But in a broader sense, it does. If it's a temporary automatic block, that has different implications for who you protest against than if it is a manual block put in at the behest of the House of Saud, say, or at the request of America's NSA.
- raverbashing 13y agoWriting on FB using Tor kind of defeats the purpose, no?
- betterunix 13y agoMaybe you are trying to hide your physical location.
- zxcdw 13y agoThis. And perhaps even your whole identity. The world is so different place in unsafe countries, people might be playing with their lives(and lives of their close ones) for doing this stuff. It's not unlikely for a totalitarian government to assassinate opposition, to physically kill activists. You say that's wrong, but I ask whatcha gonna do about it? Lets let them use TOR.
- lmm 13y agoIf you're on facebook under a false identity you can and will be kicked off more-or-less at random whenever you happen to trip the right flags.
- zxcdw 13y agoSure, and this is most probably an expected possibility, but also the only way to operate safely. Exposing your name and your political stance along with activism can get you killed. Of course the reliance on US based(of all Western countries) company through which all the stuff gets organized and through which the communications happen might have to be questioned -- but the status quo is that there are no viable alternatives and it's very unlikely to change due to the nature of the market.
- untog 13y agoOf course it does. It might be a short-term block to prevent a spam attack, for example.