On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 3:17 AM, Griffin Boyce <[email protected]> wrote: > Has anyone asked Tim Berners-Lee about child pornography lately? Cell > phones are used by drug dealers, and my dicing knife doubles as a deadly > weapon. There's a world of difference between the inventor's intended > use and those secondary uses.
How are these ramifications in any way relevant to the conflict of interest analogy I have made? Pointing out the obvious fact that Tor hidden services are most popular in drug dealing and pedophilia circles gets someone's panties in a twist, and the supposedly factual “Tor users” page containing mostly upgraded old promotional writeup [1] conflicts with the official party line? Fine, let's look at something recent and authoritative, Thus spake Mike Perry [2]: > I am deeply opposed to shipping an always-on universal adblocker with > the default TBB. I think it would be political suicide in terms of > accomplishing our goals with acceptance of Tor users by sites, lobbying > for private browsing origin changes, and convincing the world that > privacy by design is possible without resorting to filtering schemes > and/or DNT-style begging. So here you have it: an employee of the non-profit Tor project admits to producing an inferior product due to political reasons. No drugs, CP, or other forbidden subjects are involved either, so Americans among us can breathe a sigh of relief. [1] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2012-August/025151.html [2] https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2012-November/026354.html -- Maxim Kammerer Liberté Linux: http://dee.su/liberte -- Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password at: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech
