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University Professor Chastised For Using Tor

Irongeek_ADC writes with a first-person account from the The Chronicle of Higher Education by a university professor who was asked to stop using Tor. University IT and campus security staffers came knocking on Paul Cesarini's door asking why he was using the anonymizing network. They requested that he stop and also that he not teach his students about it. The visitors said it was likely against university policy (a policy they probably were not aware that Cesarini had helped to draft). The professor seems genuinely to appreciate the problems that a campus IT department faces; but in the end he took a stand for academic freedom.

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  1. Re:Bravo by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    People here speak of health care like it's just another commodity to be bought and sold. Will we never advance as a species above this exploitive outlook on life?

    Hahaha! Move to Sweden, then, you hippy! Best healthcare in Europe, I hear. The highest taxes, too! And WHAT does it buy you? Eh? The best healthcare - oh, great! The best education system - feh. People are nice to each other; give me a BREAK. A pleasant place to live? What are you, a faggot? I want to pay NO taxes! NONE! It's MY money, I earned it! And with it, I can BUY all the healthcare I and my family need, AND have money left over for stuff like automatic weponry to defend my house against the people who don't have what I have, and who ought to be left to starve to death, as per the teachings of Jesus Christ. Well, I think he said that. I go to church every Sunday, and my president has a direct line to god. If Jesus has said different, and his own father has a direct line to the President, then surely I would have been informed by now, by the polit^H^H^H^H^H medi^H^H^H^H Republica^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H local preacher.

    You won't find THAT way of life in Sweden, let me tell you!