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Originally Posted by sjfan
Please don't equate Tor with piracy or say that it is not good.
Tor is designed to protect anonymous free speech, which is one of the lynchpins of democracy (see: Publius and the Federalist Papers). Its core algorithm was developed by the US Naval Research Lab, and it was largely funded by Human Rights Watch and the Electronic Frontier Foundation to protect political dissidents in oppressed nations. It is used by the New York Times, the Guardian, and other journalism outlets to protect whistleblowers and dissidents, and it is endorsed by the Internet Watch Foundation.
It can be used for illicit reasons as well, but that is not its reason for existing at all. |
Amen. I don't use Tor, but I'm glad it exists.