Amateur philosopher and artist (IT, Buddhism, health, auDHD, etc).
Anything I say and do are imperfect, incomplete and impermanent. That's OK :)
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New Privacy Guides article 
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by me:
If you are not sure what Tor is,
this article is for you 💜
If you want to tell your friends
how important Tor is,
this article is for them too 💜
If you want to read about how fundamental Tor is not only to the privacy community, but to everyone who needs its protection,
this article is for this as well 💜
Thank you @torproject
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/30/in-praise-of-tor/
You might have heard of Tor in the news a few times, yet never dared to try it yourself. Despite being around for decades, Tor is still a tool too few people know about. Today, Tor is easy to use for anyone. It not only helps journalists and activists, but anybody who seeks greater privacy online or access to information regardless of location. But what is Tor exactly? How can Tor help you? And why is it such an important tool?
Software is political. Open source is completely irrelevant if we allow Nazis, misogynists, abusers, racists, and ableists to thrive while people who believe in human rights and accessibility are made to feel unwelcome and unsafe.
Refusing to use commercial software does not make you a good person.
here is a non-exhaustive list of people who have been defended in open source communities:
– serial rapists. Yes, that's a plural.
– people convicted of possessing child abuse materials.
– people defending lower ages of consent
– a guy with a massive Nazi swastika tattoo on his chest.
– people who have made blatantly dehumanizing statements about people with disabilities.
– people who have made blatantly racist statements in public
– People who are the system administrators for far right terrorist groups.
– people who have doxxed and swatted women for existing in public, developing free video games, or documenting hatred of Black women online
for every one of these cartoonishly evil people, there is an army of "both sides" defenders who oppose the existence of a code of conduct of any kind. For every one of these cartoonishly evil people, there are men (and a fair number of white women) who defended them and kept their jobs in positions in open source communities, while everyone who spoke up for human rights was ostracized.
I don't care about your open-source license unless you get your attitude towards human beings in order.
I read some chapters of 'The Wires of War' just because I wanted to understand the methods of information warfare by any party (state governments, corporations, conspiracy theorists, etc).
It's pretty scary, particularly the attacks on the supply chains and propaganda that exploits recent events such as wildfires.
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