On 03/11/11 04:23, toruser@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > so far it has me wondering if tor is really used for the humanitarian > purposes the technology has the potential of aiding. i would really > appreciate hearing real stories and highlights of how has helped in the > use cases torproject lists. I'm willing to speak up, although I'm not going to be very specific. As Roger has already implied, it kind of defeats the point of Tor if you then broadcast to the world what traffic you're pushing through it. I am a part time political activist in the United Kingdom. Due to disability and chronic illness I don't manage to do much work "on the ground". Instead I work online to motivate and inform other activists, and increase awareness of issues that our mostly state-supporting media chooses not to report. Things are not good here at the moment. Although we are by no means China or Syria (thank G-d), we are not a free country either. There is much to be challenged and the establishment has a strong interest in further restrictions of liberty. Many people, myself included, have been spuriously arrested over the past few years and police brutality has become an everyday occurrence. The ethnic cleansing which we thought was consigned to history is back, and many of us now live in genuine fear. I assume the rest of the world is seeing very little of this. I don't hide the fact that I'm against the government. It's pretty hard to do what I do without being noticed. But that doesn't mean I want everything to be public. That would be pretty dangerous. Like in the USA, people are being badly beaten by the police simply for engaging in legitimate protest. I am more likely than most to die from a beating because I don't heal properly. If I don't have to publicise what I'm doing and where I'm doing it, I don't intend to. I'm not engaging in criminal activity, but I am fighting for my kids' rights and would like to stay alive. The UK is one of the most watched countries in the world. Tor allows people like me to be selective in what we allow the authorities to know. When the guys with the big sticks and guns are looking for any excuse to have some fun, and the government is happy to increase their power, we all have something to hide. Julian -- 3072D/D2DE707D Julian Yon (2011 General Use) <pgp.2011@xxxxxx>
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