Cyber Bullying or a Paradox?
Is there a paradoxical element to this being a Tor member that I have completely missed or is this just another cyber bullying article. I can't quite catch the drift of the article, I am having a slow morning.
The Tor project has revealed that one of its team has been subjected to “a sustained campaign of harassment for the past several months” and declared it will no longer tolerate such activity on the Tor network. In a strongly-worded post, Tor's “arma”, aka Roger Dingledine, says the female staffer “is not alone and her …
""'Women who work on Tor endure serious threats'"
Just get a coffee vending machine instead then..."
I know you'll be needing a few coffees to keep you going with all the code and bug fixes you're no doubt continually contributing to the Tor project, in between bouts of recreational sexist trolling.
I really deserve a slap in order to wake up, I didn't even understand what the original AC was actually referring to... I honestly thought he was referring to coffee in order that I wake myself up....
I just re-read the comment and undersood what he really meant, "facepalm for me"....
I gave you an UpVote for being mature enough to admit when you had made the mistake. The trolling AC deserves a swift application of HVAC via alligator clamps across the earlobes, but since the site hasn't implemented the functionality yet to deliver electric shocks instead of mere DownVotes, I'll UpVote you & give Kudo's for your admission.
*Hands over a large tankard of coffee & a pastry*
"....“devise ways to concretely support people who suffer from online harassment” and hopes the post sparks “ larger public conversation about online harassment” that moves more organisations to act."
So they (Tor) are going to do what? Give the affected people a group hug and say "There there. It's not as bad as you think". I'm sure that'll greatly help to change trolling habits. NOT.
How about banning? Naming and shaming? Publishing IP addresses? (maybe Anon could do something useful for a change with that information?)
"How about banning? Naming and shaming? Publishing IP addresses? (maybe Anon could do something useful for a change with that information?)"
Your solution to the problem of someone getting their feelings hurt online is for the 'harassers' personally identifiable information to be posted publicly? By a company whose mission is to provide 'absolute anonymity'? You're hilarious.
Your solution to the problem of someone getting their feelings hurt online is for the 'harassers' personally identifiable information to be posted publicly? By a company whose mission is to provide 'absolute anonymity'? You're hilarious.
Actually it makes sense. How many people do you know who'd willing act like your typical troll if they didn't have anonymity? The tactic works. Case in point: google Curtis Woodhouse Twitter Troll.
"Actually it makes sense. How many people do you know who'd willing act like your typical troll if they didn't have anonymity? The tactic works. Case in point: google Curtis Woodhouse Twitter Troll."
Except that it undermines everything TOR is about. They might as well close up shop and go home.
the TerminaTor!
Strange that it's "only" women who work on the Tor project that get harassed
With all this "anonymity" that Tor offers, you'd expect anyone associated with the Tor Project to be a little lower profile about what they do/contribute to this project, after all many authoritarian governments see Tor as major threat to their control and monitoring of all things Internet..
Shouldn't more Tor developers contribute anonymously (like Truecrypt, Freenet, or whatevercoin) regardless of whether they are men or women? Since there are no details about the harassment in this article, I wonder why this campaign happened anyway. It's not abuse at the workplace, which is what I expected when I clicked on the article. Is it an attempt to smear or criticise Tor? This isn't systemd flamewars, it's probably more like a GCHQ disinformation campaign. Is there a specific reason why a Tor woman would be targeted? More context is needed.
I assume it's more likely a TOR woman would be targeted because the world is full of misogynist arseholes.
And why should a TOR developer contribute anonymously if they don't wish to? Why shouldn't people be allowed to take pride in their work and have their name attached to it?
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"....None of this would have been a problem if the lady in question had used a 'handle' that wouldn't have aroused any suspicion......something like.....er.....'Thors Jockstrap' or 'I Like Bitches',etc."
Or I suppose she could really throw them off the scent by anonymously posting attention-seeking and infantile crap on online forums like this one. If I pull off that Guy Fawkes mask will you actually prove to be the lady in question, hiding in plain sight? I'm guessing Occam's Razor provides a simpler explanation.
"....None of this would have been a problem if the lady in question had used a 'handle' that wouldn't have aroused any suspicion."
So, to avoid harassment, women should have to pretend to be men, and if they let slip that they're a women, it's all their fault?
Fucking pathetic, aren't you?
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From down voting the moron AC with the coffee machine remark, having such a tiny dick and an intellect to go with it has made him crave attention even if it's only down votes.
Perhaps he has no idea how to operate a coffee machine and too stupid to learn.
Some woman or women must have seriously affected his self esteem, he must have deserved it.
We really need to see some of these abusive posts to tell if this was a GCHQ op, trolling, or something else. Compared to other tech groups that have been shit on by trolls lately, what has the Tor Project done to piss off a portion of the userbase? Is it the supposed security issues? The downfall of Freedom House and Silk Road clones? Very few of the users should be interested in interacting with the developers anyway.