Call me pessimistic if you will but unfortunately censorship is something the heavy weights that run the joint want, and since they own the media and make the laws is something that isnt going to go away.
We dont own the internet either its theres, they created it, they paid for it, we are just borrowing it which will soon become apparent, when they want to block us all off the internet they will, but that aint gonna happen for a while yet (I hope). It has nothing to do with what we want, never has, never will, I dont imagine having large numbers of us will change things either, take when they made laws requiring all home growers to pesticide there vegtables for example, they didnt care that it made half the country outlaws, and they didnt care some of them disobeyed and got fined either, they where quite happy to throw them in jail. The only reason they are not publicly agreeing with censorship at the moment is because public opinion is against them and they just got publicly humiliated by the Snowden scandal, but once everyone's forgotten about that and they figure out how to sell censorship as some amazing cure all they will, until then all there nefarious activity's will just be done in secret putting blocks in software and in routers by default and other under handed tactics. Having said that... 1) Many of us can slow the tide and make things very difficult for them, something they would rather avoid, sometimes but not often to the point of them giving up, but at the end of the day these people have all the power, money and make the laws ultimately they get there way. Remember there is a lot at steak, there ability to lie to the masses and maintain propaganda superiority is a powerful tool (which is what this is really all about) they aint just going to throw away because we want privacy. 2) Business's have no interest in stopping Tor anyway persay as pointed out it loses them money from potential interested customers, so an open recommendation of good practice from a reputable group like the EFF could work wonders. You should just treat anonymous people as anonymous people and restrict there ability to cause damage accordingly, if they want more access rights get an account and login. 3) We cannot stop them doing censorship its a pretty forgone conclusion it isnt going away, but what we can do is change it from the government choosing to the community standard (us) choosing. Not particularly easy but there are ways of doing distributed voting systems. ~Shadowman -- ~TheMindwareGroup [email protected] PGP: 0xf4b6586f -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
