Re: Tor limitation

[nile <nile@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 04:14:53PM -0800, ADB wrote:
> Yeah. Go I2p and tor rendezvous! Seriously though, someone on EFF or 
> IETF's payroll has got to be willing and able to go over there and check 
> it out. If these orgs REALLY want to know what's going on over there and 
> help people, they need current, reliable information, right?
> 
Isn't the EFF more geared toward defending digital rights in the US?
Sure, the slogan is "Defending Freedom in the Digital World," but most
of their activities are obviously US-centric. Things like the "How to
Blog Safely" (http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Anonymity/blog-anonymously.php)
document are "exportable" (at least for English readers), but I don't
believe they've gotten involved with foreign governments like they have
with the US government, right?

Anyway, for a bit of perspective on the "Chinese version of the
internet", so to speak, check out this post from EastSouthWestNorth:
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20051110_1.htm

Choice quote:
"Since people in China have never been free to express their political
views in public, not being able to do so in cyberspace isn't actually
viewed as a sacrifice. People don't feel like they're giving anything
up. On the contrary, they feel that blogs and other forms of online
social media have given them a great deal more freedom of expression
than they ever had before."

As for China exit nodes and Tor, it'd be fine to have middleman/entry
nodes as well as directory servers AFAICT. I'm hoping anyone in China
considering running a Tor server would recognize that people on the
network wouldn't appreciate exiting from a node in China...