Barry Shein wrote:
On November 30, 2012 at 08:18 joa...@aronius.se (Joakim Aronius) wrote:
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> I am all for being anonymous on the net but I seriously believe that we
still need to enforce the law when it comes to serious felonies like child pr0n,
organized crime etc, we can't give them a free pass just by using Tor. I dont
think it should be illegal to operate a Tor exit node but what just happened could
be a consequence of doing it.
Yeah, next they'll let just anyone walk down the sidewalk without
identifying themselves. And those are public sidewalks paid for by tax
dollars!
Or drop a few coins in a public telephone (I know, a little dated, but
they exist) w/o id and commit some crime!
I think some here need to reflect on what they're saying.
Sure, it'd be better to stop bad guys, but this has always been the
problem in a free society, you can't just put draconian rules on
everyone else because otherwise some bad guy might not be immediately
and easily identified.
Well put Barry. Or, as Ben Franklin put it: "They who can give up
essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither
liberty nor safety."
Miles Fidelman*
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
