Tor needs two things: more publicity and a public fund. I think many people would donate if they would find up about Tor and why it is important.
Covid-19’s impact on Tor
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Re: Covid-19’s impact on Tor
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
It doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing. Imagine if your company was going through a financially difficult time, and firing becomes the only path forward. This can greatly impact the team's moral and trust in management. Using the crisis as a scapegoat makes it easier to accept the event.
I’m not saying that it is necessarily a bad thing, just that blaming a few months of decreased donations for laying off 37% of your employees doesn’t pass my sniff test. Why not state the real reason?
Wait, because you didn't fully understand their reasons, you are now assuming that there is a "real reason" that was deliberately not stated?
Re: Covid-19’s impact on Tor
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
Woah, took me some time to digest this -- "contextualize liberties" must be the most Orwellian phrase in existence, only thing that might come close is another phrase you used, "civil rights absolutism."
It really is not. Right to physical assembly is something that should be restricted in the middle of a global pandemic , since that right cannot trump the right of life of hundreds of thousands of people. Same for the right to travel. Rights such as free speech or right to private property may be broken in more extreme cases such as war. Pretending that nuanced reality doesn't exist is the definition of "rights absol…
No. Because tin-pot shitholes -- and the people trying to make them -- have, can, and will always find some new "threat" with which to justify taking away civil liberties. Things similar to what you have said here about "nuanced reality" with respect to civil liberties have always been for me a pretty good smell test for underlying authoritarian beliefs. In ANY context, it's possible to point to something as justification for taking away civil liberties in the name of safety and security. Yesterday it was internet death threats and human trafficking, today the pandemic, tomorrow who knows, but I promise there will be one.
Re: Covid-19’s impact on Tor
#124Tor needs two things: more publicity and a public fund. I think many people would donate if they would find up about Tor and why it is important.
I use Amazon Smile to donate to Tor. It's not much, but it's something.
Re: Covid-19’s impact on Tor
#125I feel for the people at Tor who were let go. My company was in the same position and I was unfortunately on the list of people who had their position terminated. While I am upset that I am now unemployed I also can understand how a company can be put in a difficult position during this time. I will survive, and I hope they do too.
Re: Covid-19’s impact on Tor
#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well it's far more important to have the ACLU working on advocacy and rights for LGBTQ+ where there are demonstrable acts of violence and systemic oppression rather than waste time hand holding individuals who think they should be able purchase an Arsenal of firearms and spread Covid by not obeying and respecting their fellow citizens through their non compliance. I'd say they are definitely where they need to be.. I…
>Well it's far more important to have the ACLU working on advocacy and rights for LGBTQ+ Important for who, may I ask? Aren't there many groups fighting for that? How many groups are working to promote civil rights?
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Re: Covid-19’s impact on Tor
#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
They've made it a point to not change, which is frankly refreshing. It works perfectly fine as is for what 99% of people use it for
You mean something so popular did not migrate to React and Serverless yet? HOW DOES IT EVEN WORK?!!!
Come on, everyone knows only MongoDB is web scale!
Re: Covid-19’s impact on Tor
#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
It really is not. Right to physical assembly is something that should be restricted in the middle of a global pandemic , since that right cannot trump the right of life of hundreds of thousands of people. Same for the right to travel. Rights such as free speech or right to private property may be broken in more extreme cases such as war. Pretending that nuanced reality doesn't exist is the definition of "rights absol…
No. Because tin-pot shitholes -- and the people trying to make them -- have, can, and will always find some new "threat" with which to justify taking away civil liberties. Things similar to what you have said here about "nuanced reality" with respect to civil liberties have always been for me a pretty good smell test for underlying authoritarian beliefs. In ANY context, it's possible to point to something as justific…
I'm not familiar with the concept of "tin-pot shithole".
>have, can, and will always find some new "threat" with which to justify taking away civil liberties.
So slippery slope, is what you're arguing? "First they make a completely reasonable and temporary restriction of right of physical assembly, next we'll be off to the gulags." Isn't really an interesting argument, is it?
Re: Covid-19’s impact on Tor
#129I feel for the people at Tor who were let go. My company was in the same position and I was unfortunately on the list of people who had their position terminated. While I am upset that I am now unemployed I also can understand how a company can be put in a difficult position during this time. I will survive, and I hope they do too.
I feel bad for the spiral here. We're now seeing the second-order of the depression spiral.
* First step was laying off people without jobs which could be done remotely.
* Second step is laying off people who could still be productive from home, but where there's less demand.
Unless we act with boldness and resoluteness, this will just continue to feed in on itself as the nation collapses.
Re: Covid-19’s impact on Tor
#130This announcement makes no sense.
You do not have 35 employees without some sort of stable budget. Seems very unlikely the budget changed so much in the past few months that you have to reduce your headcount by 40%!
Then they even mention that they expect Tor to be even more relevant in the coming period. Well, now would be a good time to keep the people, work on the product and show how relevant it is.
Very little specific detail considering they are a non-profit. Why not post the numbers?