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Activists Call For General Strike On the Tor Network (vice.com)
Reader derekmead writes: Some Tor users are very unhappy with the way the project has been run in recent months, and are calling for a blackout on September 1st. They are asking users to not use Tor, for developers to stop working on Tor, and for those who run parts of the network's infrastructure to shut it down. The disgruntled users feel that Tor can no longer be fully trusted after a brief hiring of an ex-CIA official and the internal sexual misconduct investigation against activist Jacob Appelbaum.
This same soap opera was just posted 11 hours ago. Is it really necessary to repost?
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For some reason these dupes do make me feel at home here. The world is changing rapidly, but Slashdot stays just the way it is, with 15-year old layout and editors that cant even read their own front page.
If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.
SJWs just heard a buzzword and started a twitter campaign
Well, you just failed the interview. Two entire sentences without grammatical or spelling errors?
No way, dude.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
We live in the age of buzzwords and catchphrases which can be quickly used to categorize people without actually having to give thought to what they're saying. Words like "neocon", "fascist", "SJW", and "neo-liberal" all have very little meaning, but assist the simple mind, though sadly it is often to assist them in creating a faulty model of the world around them.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Shit. I had so many great ideas to improve the site, like a Google Translate module that automatically converts TFS into a car analogy.
Cease and desist. I've already written that module. As proof, I just ran your last comment through it, and here's the result:
Fix engine light. I had so many great camshafts to improve the wheelbase, like an OnStar transmission that stickshiftally coverts the Owner's Manual into a [ERR: Stack overflow].
See?
Indeed, according to their graphic they want anyone who "supported or aided the investigation" to sever all ties with Tor.
It's the "rally around the founder no matter what" effect; I've seen it in many, many projects. That said, most people forget about it with time. Who here ever spares a second thought for Martin Eberhard these days when they think of Tesla, rather than Elon Musk? Back in the day, in the Tesla community Musk was the devil for firing Eberhard when it turned out that Eberhard had grossly understated the cost to build the Roadster, had gotten the company bogged down in contracts that were going to get it hit with penalties, and was accused of hiding negative information from the board. Martin was beloved as the founder, and thus anything negative about him was clearly just vicious smear. But since Tesla has been such a big success, who ever hears the name Martin Eberhard anymore?
"99 dead duelists of Dios on the wall. 99 dead duelists of Dios! Take one's ring, pass it around..."
The argument against this "strike" is that it would shutdown TOR for a day, and would force journalists and dissidents to use a different (more risky) communication method instead.
Do the strikers in the TOR group actually have the power to turn off TOR itself, or are they just threatening to shut down their personal nodes?
If they really do have the power to completely turn off TOR worldwide, what is to stop that power being co-opted (or hacked) by a government?
The way the Internet has been devolving into just one big surveillance/spying/malware platform, and now with ICANN ceding control over to someone else, the TOR network may become the last bastion of a truly free and open Internet. Yes, it's the Wild West inside there to be sure, but you do have a higher degree of anonymity and a lesser degree of being spied on and surveilled. I can see a possible future where onion routing networks, with sites operating within them, are the only relatively safe places you could go. Let's not start artillery barrages against TOR, okay?
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
That reads like a gross oversimplification. For what it's worth, SJWs were responsible for the Magna Carta, various freedom leaning constitutions, women's suffrage, and the end of wide scale slavery, among many other things.
Fair enough. All of that was working for freedom, more power to them.
But at least some of modern SJWism is devoted to censorship. Rather than work for freedom, they seek to twist government power to oppress and carve out space for their favored factions.
It is terrifying a whole generation is being raised to think offending people is damaging, and therefore government may censor. It may take another 40 years before this gets approved by a more sympathetic supreme court. But there goes freedom as protecting the people, used as justification for censorship in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, will be enshrined as a valued principle in the United States.
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
So Tor project did nothing wrong. Well, they did publish alleged misconduct of an employee all over the internet and the media. Perfectly normal amiright?
Words like "neocon", "fascist", "SJW", and "neo-liberal" all have very little meaning, ...
I'm pretty sure the people of 1939-1945 Italy and Germany understood a pretty serious meaning of the word "fascist".
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Some people are convinced that all sexual assault/rape allegations are false, unless there is a video and a signed confession.
Yes, and some people are convinced that all sexual assault/rape allegations are true, unless there is unassailable evidence to the contrary.
See the "rape victims have the right to be believed" idea for this whole debacle. For example, the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case, the Rolling Stone rape article ("A Rape on Campus"), the Scottsboro Boys, the Tawana Brawley rape allegations, etc. All of these sensational cases turned out to be 100% bullshit. Those "victims" turned out to be perpetrators, but their stories were believed without any critical examination.
NO ONE has the "right to be believed" about anything without some actual evidence supporting their claim.
Yes, rape happens, there are plenty of examples of it that are absolutely genuine. BUT, there are false rape reports too, and taking the stance that "rape victims have the right to be believed" is setting the scene for a travesty of justice.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
It doesn't sound like they're getting played by the intelligence agencies AT ALL.
Don't just stand there, get that other dog!
Shari Steele fired and replaced Tor's entire board of directors. ioerror's accusers tried to get him fired from an academic program outside of Tor and they are trying to expel Daniel J. Bernstein (yes, that djb) from the security community. They have been going on a witch hunt against everybody who suggests they might be handling this too aggressively. Anyone who dissents is kicked out of Tor.
I'm looking forward to seeing the developers quit en masse and start the Shallot Router. Or everyone can go to i2p.