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Don't really see the point of this and am tbh slightly irked at a wastage of my licence fee.
This allows anyone that has access to TOR to read BBC. Many countries might block outside news organizations.
1 - Can the same not be achieved via VPN usage?
2 - Can TOR browsers not already access the BBC in the "clearnet"?
3 - Why do I, as a UK resident, have to provide money so that someone in Vietnam can access our state news?
i’m not sure why. if someone is already using the tor network, presumably they could use it to bypass censorship to access the clearnet bbc site.
Because so much of the bbc website is http, today, in 2019. At least you now get TLS between the browser and the bbc server. Accessing bbc over Tor normally leaks cleartext http to the exit nodes.
The only other parts that remain HTTP (that I've seen) are certain archived content, e.g. the older Learning[0] and Languages[1] portals.
You can also visit facebookcorewwwi.onion.
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Straight away in the article they spell it out and make the link between Tor and the dark web: > The Tor browser is privacy-focused software used to access the dark web Yes it is. But that's the worst thing it's used for. It's like saying 12-gauge shotguns are used for bank robberies... Ok, I'm stretching the point but it's needlessly putting the association of privacy focused browsing using Tor with the nasty shit t…
But you're using 'dark web' as if it necessarily implies "the worst thing[s]" and "the nasty shit" on Tor. The term 'dark web' doesn't refer to anything nefarious in itself — it simply means content accessible only via Tor (or some other software or network). Sure, many so-called Hidden Services offer illegal and immoral content, but the dark web is enormous . There are many more such sites offering ebooks and other…
Not a fan of the clickbait title... Seems a bit unfair to equate wanting to protect privacy with the dark web where people associate it with drugs and paedophiles and whatnot. Very clickbaity from the BBC.
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This allows anyone that has access to TOR to read BBC. Many countries might block outside news organizations.
Yes I understand that. 1 - Can the same not be achieved via VPN usage? 2 - Can TOR browsers not already access the BBC in the "clearnet"? 3 - Why do I, as a UK resident, have to provide money so that someone in Vietnam can access our state news?
BBC World News has a similar purpose as Voice of America (VOA) and Russia Today (RT). The purpose is to deliver the viewpoint of the UK to other countries, such as Iran, Russia, China.