On 7/21/07, Ron Wireman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Unfortunately, this 'separation of concerns' you're a proponent of doesn't work in the real world. In the same way that you can't insert a piece of metal into someone with a high calibre rifle without grievously injuring then, you can't run a completely open anonymous router network without being a conduit for child abuse and other evils. For any action, there may be many possible results, and it seems to me that if one of the evils is overwhelming, it is artificially hedging the issue to say you have no responsibility for it. If tor can't be designed in a way that strongly discourages or prevents people from using it for evil, it shouldn't exist.
You're injecting morality into something that does not have it, and badly at that By your arguments, cameras should not exist. They allow someone to take a possibly offensive picture of someone else and then do whatever they want with it. The overwhelming evil of someone using a camera means that since camera makers don't design cameras in a way that stronger discourages or prevents people from using them for evil, we should not have cameras at all. By your logic, we should throw away all of the technology that we currently have. Most technologies are not designed to prevent evil use of itself. There are laws and other preventions in place to prevent this evil. The technology itself is not designed for evil. Content filtering has no place in Tor code.
