>> Actually, you don’t have to imagine it. In 2011, two years after >> President Obama’s town hall meeting with future Chinese leaders in >> Shanghai, the state-run newspaper China People’s Daily editorialized >> about the United States’ deployment of shadow networks in authoritarian >> countries: “The US State Department has carefully framed its support of >> such projects as promoting free speech and human rights, but it is clear >> that the policy is aimed at destabilizing national governments.” It >> called Tor—software that helps people mask their location—“a weapon in a >> covert cyber war intended to maintain the US’ global dominance.” >> " > > LOL teaching to population that the tool that helps them is in fact the > enemy, classic. the us funded tor cus a sub department needed such a > tool too. while other departments hate it :)
Yeah. I think this speaks to just how hard it is to see different perspectives, even on the internet where there are (in theory) no borders. As a US citizen it's clear to me that politicians here are wary of privacy-preserving technologies like Tor. (And PGP and OTR - hello crypto wars!) Overseas maybe that's less apparent. Of course this could all be the result of complex plots within the US government and foreign governments, but I tend to believe that it's more just a lack of exposure to different cultural values. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to arm-netb...@files.phcomp.co.uk