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New York Times shut down Tor Onion service

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Re: New York Times shut down Tor Onion service

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Post by keepamovin »

aspenmayer wrote: post #140
keepamovin wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Lol it is not hard to create a hidden service: Prerequisites: - Linux: You may need `sudo` privileges to install Tor and modify system files. - macOS: Homebrew must be installed (`brew`) to manage Tor. - A web server must already be running on the specified local port (e.g., 8080). - Firewall: This function does not configure the firewall. Ensure that: - Tor’s default port (9050) is allowed. - Your web server’s port…

> Mining for a nice vanity hostname might be more difficult tho! How would that be done? https://community.torproject.org/onion-services/advanced/van...

Nice, this is cool, too: Onionmine hahaha :)

https://onionservices.torproject.org/apps/web/onionmine/

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Post by thinkingemote »

notepad0x90 wrote: post #86

Isn't it a paywalled service? How do people use it? they access it anonymously and then pay with a card?

First pay for the service (on non-tor system if the payments provider doesnt like Tor), then on Tor you can input your username and password like you would as normal.

Tor doesn't stop people users voluntarily de-anonymising themselves for specific sites. It does stop curious entities on the network from seeing what people do.

Re: New York Times shut down Tor Onion service

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Post by impossiblefork »

ants_everywhere wrote: post #81
spyspy wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Disclaimer I worked at NYT but this is just unsubstantiated garbage. Say what you will about the company and journalism as a whole but you’d be hard pressed to find a better group of truth-seekers out there. waves hands at every other “news” outlet

The propaganda outlets have really been pushing hard the line that you can't trust professional journalists, and people who get their news from influencers just seem to accept it uncritically.

The actual solution is the Swish journalist, who you yourself pay directly for his stories.

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Post by owenversteeg »

Lammy wrote: post #15
luma wrote: post #4

Journalists speak truth to power, meanwhile the NYT aligns itself with power at every opportunity. For example, they knew the NSA was spying on us but never ran the story to protect GW's chances at reelection. Presumably they didn't want to be seen as anti-establishment with the new powers and are reverting to their time-proven behavior. NYT will lick the boot when presented, same as ever.

https://www.carlbernstein.com/the-cia-and-the-media-rolling-... “The Agency’s relationship with the Times was by far its most valuable among newspapers, according to CIA officials. From 1950 to 1966, about ten CIA employees were provided Times cover under arrangements approved by the newspaper’s late publisher, Arthur Hays Sulzberger. The cover arrangements were part of a general Times policy—set by Sulzberger—to pro…

Indeed. The Times is the mouthpiece of power. The event referenced in the GP comment [1] was a classic example of the NYT playbook when they get some information that goes against their narrative: 1) delay publication until they are absolutely forced to publish, 2) edit to play down the story, and 3) bury it as well as they can. They famously did this with the Holocaust [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_New_York_Times_con...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_New_York_Times_con...

Re: New York Times shut down Tor Onion service

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Post by user3939382 »

luma wrote: post #4

Journalists speak truth to power, meanwhile the NYT aligns itself with power at every opportunity. For example, they knew the NSA was spying on us but never ran the story to protect GW's chances at reelection. Presumably they didn't want to be seen as anti-establishment with the new powers and are reverting to their time-proven behavior. NYT will lick the boot when presented, same as ever.

I definitely see it as a mouthpiece for the establishment and three letter agencies, my interest and trust in it is pretty much 0.

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Post by blitzar »

bee_rider wrote: post #72
chneu wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not saying I disagree, but please see how dangerous your thinking can be. That basically takes away a major tool of journalists and allows you to paint whoever you disagree with as wrong simply because they don't wish to go public. Very, very dangerous way of thinking. Allowing sourcesto stay anonymous is a major tool for journalists.

The word of anonymous sources should be taken with a pretty big grain of salt, but they can point to verifiable information.

That is why the standard is two (or more) independent sources.

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Post by agubelu »

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #124
yawnxyz wrote: post #8

> deepened our understanding of reaching audiences that might otherwise be blocked from accessing our journalism > Users who wish to continue reading Times journalism where their access to the main website may be blocked can do so through WhatsApp or Telegram. https://archive.is/ is still the de-facto way to read NYT articles...

" https://archive.is is still the de-facto way to read NYT articles..." It's popular on HN for sure, but archive.is only works where the NYT article is archived Lighter weight, open source, local solutions like Bypass Paywalls Clean work on any NYT article regardless of whether archived archive.is may be blocked for some internet subscribers in some countries archive.is webpages are quite large and contain telemetry…

The fact that Bypass Paywalls Clean works for so many websites is kinda baffling to me. Are there any reasons why they choose to implement paywalls in front-end only, or is it just technical incompetence?

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Post by oniony »

nextts wrote: post #111
bolognafairy wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would at the very least be hesitant to provide such a service, and I’ve gotta imagine that I’m far from alone :)

Why? It is the archivey bit that gets you in trouble, not the oniony bit.

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Post by milesrout »

mmooss wrote: post #118
milesrout wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It wasn't a rapid decline. The media ignored it and covered it up but there were signs of serious cognitive decline even before he was elected.

The conclusion of the research linked earlier in the thread is that the NYT covered it too much.

The mainstream media essentially didn't cover it at all until halfway through the election.
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