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Tor Project Aims To Eclipse US Government Funding

Posted by timothy on from the not-the-entire-government's-funding dept.

An anonymous reader writes Developed by the U.S. Navy and the recipient of millions of dollars of government grants, the Tor Project is now aiming to ween itself off dependence of U.S. government funds "including setting a goal of 50 percent non-U.S. government funding by 2016." The initiative comes after months of discussion over what some vocal critics deemed a contradiction in funding and purpose.

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  1. Re:Wow, that's a lot of money by Aighearach · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    That's pretty derpy. The government prints the bills, but they don't "print money" except in places like Zimbabwe. I'll admit it is a popular theme in right-wing media, though. So perhaps you've just been overly propagandized.

    It is the banks that "print money" in the sense you meant it, not the government.

    http://www.bankofengland.co.uk... is the document that most of us read last year. It was a bit of a bombshell, mostly because it admits things already known but in the past officially denied. But the old public version of how it works still has the banks creating the money, not the government.

    See also: http://moneymyths.org.uk/pdf/W...