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fastpoint
5y ago
Well, that's what the Tor Project claims. It's good marketing, but they're essentially lying by omission here.
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5y ago
Those are all things with extremely broad purposes, used by nearly everyone. Whereas Tor is incredibly niche, being a system explicitly designed to obfuscate network activity to make it difficult to impossible to track back to the originato
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5y ago
The linked study revealed that around 80% of hidden service visits were to paedophile websites. Is 80% of internet traffic child pornography imagery? Are 80% of cars driven by paedophiles? If not, your comparison makes no sense really. Also
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Are the vast majority of knives being used to stab people? The study I linked had the proportion of hidden service visits to paedophile sites at around 80% of the total. It's such an alarming figure, it really should be in the Tor docu
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5y ago
And get myself on a watch list? No thanks. More importantly, Tor has a significant amount of use by child abusers: https://www.wired.com/2014/12/80-percent-dark-web-visits-rel... So there's not really a moral