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Re: BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror

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Post by class4behavior »

Since no one posted that, yet: Tor relies on the size the of its network to counteract blocks, prevent take overs, and naturally ensure stability as well as performance.

You can either donate to various groups running Tor servers, the developers, or take part on your own.

https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Tor

https://www.torservers.net/

https://www.dfri.se/donera/

https://nos-oignons.net/

https://donate.torproject.org/

Also, as a side note, in countries where Tor access is actively inhibited, users may need to rely on bridges.

https://bridges.torproject.org/

https://blog.torproject.org/how-use-meek-pluggable-transport

https://snowflake.torproject.org/

Re: BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror

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Post by oarsinsync »

oskenevd wrote: post #10
nyolfen wrote: post #4

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.

This very BBC news article is delivered as HTTPS, and if you try to reach it as HTTP, you'll be redirected to HTTPS.

Re: BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror

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Post by Phlogi »

elagost wrote: post #43
andrewaylett wrote: post #37

I know there are good reasons why it's not fully secure, but I'd really like to be able to access `.onion` addresses in my regular browser over TOR and everything else directly as usual. In _this_ I'm not over-worried about the risk of deanonymisation as my aim is on one hand access to resources I don't have access to now and on the other hand legitimisation of TOR as something that anyone could reasonably use, even…

The way to do that is just to use Tor Browser as your regular browser.

No, because the Tor Browser sends all traffic through the tor network and exit nodes.

Re: BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror

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Post by rvz »

jonplackett wrote: post #2

Finally a good use for my license fee! (Aside from David Attenborough documentaries, they’ve always been worth it)

> Finally a good use for my license fee!

While I agree that no news corporation should ever be censored and should be accessible to all including the "dark-web", the level of clickbait / fake-news level content on the BBC website is getting ridiculous in some areas and contradicts with their duty to be fair, impartial and balanced as the only UK state broadcaster privileged with a royal charter.

Apart from the actual World News section, the front page + newsbeat section is completely littered with frivolous cringe-worthy content and memes that isn't worth paying attention to, neither is purchasing the TV license for.

Re: BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror

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Post by JackeJR »

andrewaylett wrote: post #37

I know there are good reasons why it's not fully secure, but I'd really like to be able to access `.onion` addresses in my regular browser over TOR and everything else directly as usual. In _this_ I'm not over-worried about the risk of deanonymisation as my aim is on one hand access to resources I don't have access to now and on the other hand legitimisation of TOR as something that anyone could reasonably use, even…

If you have installed tor on your local machine, you can use an add on like proxyswitch omega (firefox and chrome) to redirect all onion websites.

For a network wide approach, you will need to set up PAC and a network accessible tor proxy. The PAC would have a rule that redirects all .onion hosts to the network accessible tor proxy.

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Post by rahuldottech »

andrewaylett wrote: post #37

I know there are good reasons why it's not fully secure, but I'd really like to be able to access `.onion` addresses in my regular browser over TOR and everything else directly as usual. In _this_ I'm not over-worried about the risk of deanonymisation as my aim is on one hand access to resources I don't have access to now and on the other hand legitimisation of TOR as something that anyone could reasonably use, even…

You can do this! There exist several tor2web proxies that allow you to do this. Simply go to tor_url.onion.ws in a regular browser.

Keep in mind that this only protects publishers, not those accessing the website.

More info: https://www.tor2web.org/

Re: BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror

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Post by Zenst »

ArchieLeach wrote: post #48
Zenst wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/bbc/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/history/story/2007/02/0701...

The BBC is quite subtle. It's not fake news and what they report is factual, but the choice of what facts to report makes it crystal clear that they do have an agenda. A current example: Hongkong. They have headline reporting every time there is a protest while other protests in other countries, and arguably much more significant protests, barely get a mention. This is not a coincidence. Edit: A lot of the replies to…

Hasn't the HongKong protests been going on for a while and with changing dynamics in protests and response. BBC reported many protests, is there one in particular that should of been more reported upon that springs to mind - for me, nope.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=protests

Sure choice of facts and style can and does show a middle-left bias, but as for agenda. If it is that crystal clear, then what is it!

I will say though, the trend of media outlets to report opinions of interviewers as news and for the populus to take those avenues of news and run with them as facts, has been something that plays out upon social media. This then as we have seen, is used by news outlets as sources of news (ala Tweets have becomes news sources now). This does create the potential for massive feedback loops. But then, no media outlet seems immune to that.

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Post by have_faith »

ArchieLeach wrote: post #48
Zenst wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/bbc/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/history/story/2007/02/0701...

The BBC is quite subtle. It's not fake news and what they report is factual, but the choice of what facts to report makes it crystal clear that they do have an agenda. A current example: Hongkong. They have headline reporting every time there is a protest while other protests in other countries, and arguably much more significant protests, barely get a mention. This is not a coincidence. Edit: A lot of the replies to…

Hong Kong is a very recent former British colony, the nature of the protests are unique and there's a large public interest in the Hong Kong protests specifically. This doesn't mean the BBC isn't biased, but the number of articles isn't an indication of bias in the way that people would normally use the term I think. How are you measuring the significance of protests against each other to figure out which deserve more or less attention?

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Post by spoovy »

ArchieLeach wrote: post #48
Zenst wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/bbc/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/history/story/2007/02/0701...

The BBC is quite subtle. It's not fake news and what they report is factual, but the choice of what facts to report makes it crystal clear that they do have an agenda. A current example: Hongkong. They have headline reporting every time there is a protest while other protests in other countries, and arguably much more significant protests, barely get a mention. This is not a coincidence. Edit: A lot of the replies to…

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