Re: [tor-talk] In which places is using Tor dangerous?

[mirimir <mirimir@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 08/02/2013 11:49 AM, krishna e bera wrote:

> On 13-08-02 12:50 AM, mirimir wrote:
>> On 08/02/2013 03:36 AM, grarpamp wrote:
>>
>>>> I've seen lines along "using Tor is dangerous" a lot.
>>>> Are there any stories on news pages that I could read on the topic?
>>>
>>> Foremost is often at your employer. Silly and unfortunate to mention,
>>> but true... even during some formal break and access room.
>>
>> In recent years, I've seen articles about Tor being blocked in China,
>> Ethiopia, Iran, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. But I don't recall anything
>> specific about people being prosecuted for using Tor. I suspect that
>> active persecution is most likely in fundamentalist Islamic nations.
>>
>> Although Tor is certainly not illegal in the US, Yahoo! Answers has
>> deleted a question about the issue
>> <http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130502043112AA9dl8z> ;)
> 
> Do you have evidence that question was about Tor?
> I did find it on archive.org or google's cache.

A Duckduckgo search for "tor illegal us yahoo" yields this as the first
result:

Is tor browser illegal in the US? - Yahoo! Answers
Best Answer: Tor is perfectly legal in the US. Don't worry. ... I do not
think that it is illegal because most of people are using it for their
business. If you think that it ...
answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130502043112AA9dl8z   More from
answers.yahoo.com

Visiting that link yields:

This question has been deleted

Questions on Yahoo! Answers are sometimes deleted according to our
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