--On Saturday, December 28, 2013 8:20 PM +1100 Peter Tonoli <[email protected]> wrote:
> There's an interesting question on Quora about Tor at the moment - "Tor: > Why did the US government create and continue to fund Tor?", which can > be found at > <http://www.quora.com/Tor/Why-did-the-US-government-create-and-continue-t > o-fund-Tor>. > > So far, there are 4 answers including.. .. > > "Bram Cohen, Inventor of BitTorrent - > Many other countries have countrywide firewalls to limit what their > citizens/residents can see of the internet. The US State Department > views this as a bad thing and proactively promotes Tor because it's the > tool of choice for freely browsing the internet from behind such a > firewall, which appears to be the main use which Tor is put to." " The US State Department views this as a bad thing" Right, but that's not because of any concern with freedom of speech - the only reason the US military see that as 'bad' is because they can't easily spy on people living in firewalled countries. Hey, aren't firewalls defensive systems? -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
