While this is a very important issue, I think there is just another excuse to get rid of the only way left to achieve anonimity on the Internet, and this can only lead to bad things.
As the author admits, there's lots of good interests in keeping Tor a thing, and nothing good can come out from removing it.
Such people sharing illicit material should be investigated and prosecuted (with severe and appropriate court orders) through the ordinary means, but the author doesn't seem to have a good solution on hand, other than showing provocative questions like "why are we funding these Tor guys".
There's no single solution that they can implement TOR-side without breaking the whole point of the project. They won't implement any backdoor or similar bullshit, no matter what. There's no point in TOR if they do that. May as well disband the project.
The argument being made is: "Bad people are doing bad things. By providing privacy, TOR is enabling bad people to do horrible things."
The exact same thing is true of the US Government: "Bad people are doing bad things behind closed doors. By legalizing privacy in homes (and elsewhere) the United States is enabling bad people to do horrible things."
It is absolutely true that society can stop almost all crime if we would give up our collective rights to privacy.
This is in the same veins as implementing backdoor in every messaging app.
The problem is that no matter what, criminals are going to do crimes and by closing tor (or make it insecure for people that really need it) you will just penalize innocents for nothing.
Imho the efforts are much better invested in infiltrating and dismentling pedohile networks and also raising public awarness about the taboo of incest, because lot of it happens inside the familial circle and that awarness could prevent a lot of harm.
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[ 0.19 ms ] story [ 12.6 ms ] threadAs the author admits, there's lots of good interests in keeping Tor a thing, and nothing good can come out from removing it.
Such people sharing illicit material should be investigated and prosecuted (with severe and appropriate court orders) through the ordinary means, but the author doesn't seem to have a good solution on hand, other than showing provocative questions like "why are we funding these Tor guys".
There's no single solution that they can implement TOR-side without breaking the whole point of the project. They won't implement any backdoor or similar bullshit, no matter what. There's no point in TOR if they do that. May as well disband the project.
The exact same thing is true of the US Government: "Bad people are doing bad things behind closed doors. By legalizing privacy in homes (and elsewhere) the United States is enabling bad people to do horrible things."
It is absolutely true that society can stop almost all crime if we would give up our collective rights to privacy.