The Tor Project today put out a statement against online harassment, in particular the singling out of women: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/solidarity-against-online-harassment
It's worth a read, and I'm sure they would welcome comments from other communities.
SJ
On 12/11/2014 6:33 PM, Samuel Klein wrote:
The Tor Project today put out a statement against online harassment, in particular the singling out of women: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/solidarity-against-online-harassment
It's worth a read, and I'm sure they would welcome comments from other communities.
SJ
Because of the recent possibility someone faked an IP to get an editor in trouble as a sock, I've been investigating how the heck they do it. I went to the Tor page and read enough to know I didn't have days and days to figure it all out. (Or to figure out if some banned editors or socks were paying $6.00 a month to use it to fake different IPs and fool the check user program.)
Reading the editorial I had to wonder if they actually are saying: "If we think you are using Tor to harass people, we will stop you?"
I'm sure lots of people would leave if they were. So I guess it was only a moral statement - and a great one!! - but just wondering...
CM
On 12/12/2014 08:47 AM, Joseph Reagle wrote:
On 12/11/2014 08:55 PM, Carol Moore dc wrote:
Reading the editorial I had to wonder if they actually are saying: "If we think you are using Tor to harass people, we will stop you?"
Yea, I read it too and don't know what they are actually saying they will do....
I don't think that's what they're saying at all, actually.
The statement is responding to online harassment generally and about the harassment of Tor Project staff who are women, specifically. That people use Tor to harass people online is both somewhat ironic and in this instance being used as leverage to speak out against it.
-Mallory