[tor-talk] Why corrupt government officials are strongly opposed to this Tor project (a Gestapo government run amok!)

[andre76 at fastmail.fm]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015, at 07:01 AM, Ben Tasker wrote:
> > Just because certain government agencies, such as the U.S. State
> > Department that supply funding for Tor to help protect dissidents, does
> > not mean everyone affiliated with the U.S. government approve of this
> > Tor project.
> 
> That is almost certainly true, there will be those who frown on Tor for a
> variety of reasons
> 
> > When referring to "corrupt government officials", this includes a
> > handful who are abusing the NSA's Internet, phone, and email monitoring
> > PRISM program for their own personal profit and gain. This includes News
> > Corp and 21st Century Fox.
> 
> If true, that'd mean that some of Fox News' output is based on fact?
> Shaken
> to my core :)
> 
> Seriously though, as others have pointed out, the Government has much
> cheaper, much more effective ways of silencing opponents. Methods that
> are
> used to great effect in many other countries.
> 
> I don't doubt that someone somewhere in an agency has probably looked at
> whether advertising can be subverted, though I suspect it's far more
> likely
> that they were interested in payload delivery and not attempts at mind
> control.
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 12:15 AM, Travis Biehn <tbiehn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > TAO.. Tailored Advertising Operations!! Got it. :)
> >
> > -Travis
> >  On Mar 3, 2015 7:11 PM, "Travis Bean" <tlbean at tlbean.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On 03/03/2015 02:51 PM, z9wahqvh wrote:
> > > > if the corrupt Gestapo government is so opposed to Tor, why do it and
> > its
> > > > subsidiary agencies provide (and have provided for all of its history)
> > > > between 50 and 80% of the project's entire funding, a pattern which
> > > > continues to this day?
> > > >
> > >
> > > Just because certain government agencies, such as the U.S. State
> > > Department that supply funding for Tor to help protect dissidents, does
> > > not mean everyone affiliated with the U.S. government approve of this
> > > Tor project.
> > >
> > > When referring to "corrupt government officials", this includes a
> > > handful who are abusing the NSA's Internet, phone, and email monitoring
> > > PRISM program for their own personal profit and gain. This includes News
> > > Corp and 21st Century Fox. This abuse of power goes one step beyond
> > > using the NSA's PRISM program for unlawful, tailored advertising.
> > >
Even cheaper than that- when the House of (corporate) Representatives
has a bill before it to fund or reduce funding for the DHS then the
entire world is flooded with the idiotic "what color is this dress"
distraction. What a strange coincidence.




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