Paolo Cardullo: > On 15/11/14 08:42, Katya Titov wrote: >> I opened a lengthy discussion about this in January: >> >> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-January/thread.html#31863 >> >> No real outcome. >> >> The name is what it is, and I think it's stuck. > > Katia, thanks very much for pointing to the discussion, which is > simply fascinating. I will read it more attentively. > > Let me say that meanings are never fixed or 'stuck' and that the > struggle to shift them is always open. So between cosmic space, > night/day, hidden/open, there are plenty of shades and personalities > coming out. > > I think the use of 'dark' is not neutral and it hides a moral > geography of the Net, which might appeal to some of the 'insiders' > too. I also think that the anti-terrorism, anti-immigrants, > anti-whatever symbols (all 'dark' of course) are serious attacks to > Internet freedom too.
Thanks Paolo. I agree with everything you said, but the big issue I see is that the media is already using the term 'dark', and my impression is that once they think they are on to a good thing they will stick with it. It's hard to change these things. Think "hacker" -- the original term is lost to the greater public. I would be *very* happy to be proven wrong! -- kat -- tor-talk mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
