On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 14:54 +0000, Julian Yon wrote: > On Wed, 05 Dec 2012 09:19:20 -0500 > Ted Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2012-12-05 at 04:42 -0700, Jim wrote: > > > (A lot > > > of the NANOG discussion seems to imply that he himself must have > > > been doing something illegal.) > > > > As far as I can tell, most of those accusations come from one person, > > and have no base in reality. > > Yes, and personally I wish Eugen would stop forwarding his messages. > Reading them makes me want to break things.
I think it's incredibly valuable to see how people outside the Tor circle perceive Tor. I knew of the nanog list before this, and had I been offered the opportunity, I would have bet money that they would have been overwhelmingly in support of Tor and William in this situation. I would have lost. It's easy to get trapped in a filter bubble, even if you never use Google. > > It's a common cognitive bias to assume that bad things happen to bad > > people, and good things happen to good people. This is called the Just > > World Fallacy, and it's so powerful it can make otherwise intelligent > > technologists accuse their colleagues of being secret kiddie-porn > > mafioso. > > What we've been witnessing here is more than simply Just World - he's > gone from that onto a flight of fancy where he is some sort of guardian > of all that is pure and true, and talking rubbish about how various > legal jurisdictions operate. Despite it being tangentially related to > Tor, I'd call that off-topic. Well, now he's started arguing with other people, and his arguments have become soldiers -- to admit any flaw in them would be an attack on his comrades. But I still think it's on topic, for the reason stated above. -- Sent from Ubuntu _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
