The NYT is so pro-establishment it is probably the last site on Earth that would have its domain taken away from them.
Virtue signalling
The New York Times Is Now Available as a Tor Onion Service
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#102The NYT is so pro-establishment it is probably the last site on Earth that would have its domain taken away from them.
Trump would disagree.
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#103The NYT is so pro-establishment it is probably the last site on Earth that would have its domain taken away from them.
Trump would disagree.
I don't think he would disagree they are pro-establishment. He'd love them to be taken down though there is no way he could make this happen.
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#104Comical attempt to give Street cred to the NYT.
Comical how? Check out their tech blog[0]. I'd venture a guess that they are the most technically adventurous news site, if not one of the more open corporations around in regards to trying new technology and writing about the experience. A lot of what they have to say is pretty interesting.
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#105What would be the advantage here?
From the /r/tor thread System33 posted a comment[0] originally by Alec Muffet explaining why Facebook set up a TOR service, which may answer some of your questions:
Why would anyone run a legal onion service?
Thanks Alec Muffett (OP) for the following summary copied from this comment
Understandably folk tend to think "Anonymity!" when talking about Tor Onions, but in rolling out the Facebook onion we established several clear benefits:
1. better and safer experience for people accessing over Tor: no interference by exit nodes, no bandwidth-contention for exit nodes, no use of exit nodes at all.
2. "good neighbour" - reciprocally, popular sites can unload themselves from eating up scarce exit-node bandwidth.
3. "a peace offering" - people (continue to) use Facebook over Tor; 3 years ago we saw 500,000/month, more recently ~1 million. Overwhelmingly we found (through measurement and assessment) that people using Facebook over Tor were ordinary folk wanting to do ordinary things. especially in times of political crisis. Providing a metaphorical "olive branch" showed that we value their use of the site.
4. Discretion & Trust. Onion Sites are considered to be about "Anonymity", but really they offer two more features: Discretion (eg: your employer or ISP cannot see what you are browsing, not even what site) and trust (if you access facebookcorewwwi.onion you are definitely connected to Facebook, because of the nature of Onion addressing; no DNS or CA shenanigans are applicable.)
[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/TOR/comments/792mfr/the_new_york_ti...
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#106What would be the advantage here?
>The New York Times reports on stories all over the world, and our reporting is read by people around the world. Some readers choose to use Tor to access our journalism because they’re technically blocked from accessing our website; or because they worry about local network monitoring; or because they care about online privacy; or simply because that is the method that they prefer.
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#107What would be the advantage here?
Allowing readers to choose which security and privacy advantages they want. If I want privacy and security, I'll choose the onion service. If I want security only, I'll take the HTTPS road only.
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#108What would be the advantage here?
>The New York Times reports on stories all over the world, and our reporting is read by people around the world. Some readers choose to use Tor to access our journalism because they’re technically blocked from accessing our website; or because they worry about local network monitoring; or because they care about online privacy; or simply because that is the method that they prefer.
Yes, but NYT doesn't need an .onion service for people to access it over Tor. Half the point of Tor is that it works with normal sites too.
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#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
I recall that Facebook brute forced their way into having an onion url that was easy to remember, by generating millions of them and then picking one that was simple.
Its something like facebookcorewwwi.onion - that must have taken a lot of cycles to generate..
IIRC they got the "corewwwi" part instead of complete nonsense purely out of luck, when searching for just "facebook*"
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#110Does anyone know why they posted this story through Medium?
TimesOpen is an engineer-driven blog. Its previous incarnation was self-hosted on a WordPress stack (separate from our main CMS), but for various reasons it was decided to re-platform. There were many discussions before settling on Medium and alternatives were considered (such as dogfooding our own CMS). We have a lot of work in-flight to modernize and simplify our publishing stack, and the timing wasn't right to rel…
Could you thank the folks involved in this? The TOS is great news.