Your idea has sound logic - but doesn't the current TBB support this use case? (Without attracting negative media attention?)
If you are suggesting a Flash-enabled TBB to allow these youths to view videos, that could end badly - Flash can be used to deanonymize users. If said users are so oppressed that viewing erotica could get them arrested, that's a serious problem. -- Greg Norcie (g...@norcie.com) GPG key: 0x1B873635 On 10/21/12 3:48 AM, Fabio Pietrosanti (naif) wrote: > Hi, > > i've been at internet governance forum (in italy) yesterday and > starteddiscussing a topic with several internet freedom/policy activists: > > "porn make the world more free" > > It seems a joke, but it maybe an important consideration. > > A teenager (12-18 yo) in 2012 use internet porn websites for masturbation. > That's a real facts, i expect, almost everywhere. > > In places like Saudi, a 14th years old young have a strong need of > masturbate like in any other place in the world. > But he don't have access to internet porn with his broadband internet > access. > > In the Saudi example there are already now people providing paid (and > risky) access to porn for masturbation's needs: > http://arabnews.com/jailed-facilitating-porn-site-access > This as an example of a real need that stimulate people in finding > circumvention methods. > > So, when a teenager in Saudi need to masturbate he have to find out a > censorship circumvention tool. > > From a marketing perspective this is a clearly definable "need" . > > Ok, how can we think to make out of it (masturbation and porn) something > good for freedom of speech? > > Imho we may think to create something like "Tor Porn Bundle": A version > of TBB specifically designed to provide easy access to Porn. > Then promote it trough custom targeted campaigns across all Arab World > (and language/countries where internet porn is censored). > > Which would be the main result in mid-term? > > That most teenagers (and also non teenagers, but probably in minor part) > in that closed-society will learn, understand and start using censorship > circumvention tool for an important, basic need: Masturbate! > > We should not underestimate the relevance of this need because it fit > along with the "Basic" human needs, like eating. > So the effort and perceived rewards that a person have working on the > path to satisfy that need is very high. > > In that hypothetical Torn Porn Bundle, we may deliver a pre-populated > in-language list of porn websites. > But also some "free" "in language" media website and other free / non > censored information sources and social networking tools. > > That way, after masturbation, the user will be able to have a clear and > simple path to start accessing the web in a free way. > > As a side node i would like to remind that the "porn industry" is valued > billion of USD. > If porn industry would became partners of freedom of speech players, it > could means a lot of money for investment in campaigning and technology > development, because it would means opening new markets to them. > Opening a new market means having new consumer that means they would be > able to calculate the economic ROI of an investment. > > * Porn supported the development of internet backbone > * Porn developed early internet multimedia streaming technologies > * Porn may make the world more free > > -naif > _______________________________________________ > tor-talk mailing list > tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
