[634636346]

I wouldn't be surprised if the author, and a large segment of HNers agreeing with her, did a swift about-face when they realized that Tor also provides an end-run around the internet backbone black-holing of IPs that some Tier 1 ISPs did to KiwiFarms last year, during the height of the campaign to deplatform it. More people using Tor in general means more people having the means and know-how to evade censorship, and we can't have that, can we?

[somehnguy]

I don't think anyone would be surprised - what you're describing is pretty obvious to anyone who has ever looked into Tor for more than .1 seconds. It's also pretty well understood that when restrictions can be evaded it will be used for both good & bad purposes, that's just the nature of it.

[tekla]

We want privacy for everyone, except for the people we don't like.

[Sohcahtoa82]

Describing KiwiFarms as "people we don't like" is dishonest.

The people on KiwiFarms are actively harmful and engage in illegal harassment activities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms#Harassment

[tomatotomato37]

Actually wouldn't a move to Tor completely destroy the ability to effectively moderate any sort of community since you have no way of banning spammers/bots? Even a "lawless" place like 8chan or Kiwifarms will have trouble holding discussions if all their forums are filled with copy-pasted CP from some random botnet

[swapfile]

No it wouldn't. You can use difficult to obtain cookies or registration to prevent bots.