[xophe]

>> Suing a revenge porn site. Fair, next.

Oh wait there's more.

From https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq-abuse.html.en

>> Tor aims to provide protection for ordinary people who want to follow the law. Only criminals have privacy right now, and we need to fix that.

True, but distribution has always been the hard part in any kind of scalable criminal activity, and Tor is unwittingly facilitating this.

There's definitely a case here against PinkMeth.com. Revenge porn sites don't really receive protection under fair use.

So here's the sticky part.

Here's Tor's hidden services overview: https://www.torproject.org/docs/hidden-services.html.en

Since the hidden services are themselves run over Tor, it looks to me like the only thing Tor can do is refuse to serve PinkMeth.com without identifying the agents. Which might be good for privacy precedent on the one hand, but bad if Tor as a result receives all the flack for all criminal activity run over Tor -- that means Tor relays (who are identifiable) are next.

Ideas to save Tor?

[wcummings]

"Blocking" sites, were this feisible, would be the death of Tor, not its savior.