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I don't think they're that similar. Tor doesn't actually enable harm the way that guns do, and it certainly doesn't do it as specifically as guns do. Guns enabl
by chc 12y ago
I don't think they're that similar. Tor doesn't actually enable harm the way that guns do, and it certainly doesn't do it as specifically as guns do. Guns enable you to shoot things, and that's pretty much all they can do. Tor doesn't enable you to abuse a child, and it's capable of much more. Nobody abuses a child through Tor — they commit the abuse in person. Tor is sometimes used to access the artifacts of that abuse, but the core harm is unrelated to Tor and does not occur through it.
- davidy123 12y agoWhat about child pornography rings that generate "fresh" content within their membership? Reading about busts, that seems fairly common.
- chc 12y agoThey still commit the abuse in person, not via Tor. Tor exists on the periphery of a situation where harm takes place, not as a tool or cause of harm itself. People who do bad things can use Tor to hide better, but the same is true of a hole in the ground. That is not in itself a harmful thing.