[BBC] 'Banning Tor unwise', MPs told

[Discover]

'Banning Tor unwise', MPs told

Advice given to MPs on the dark web says it can be used in the public interest and that banning it in the UK would be difficult technically.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-318...hannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

[Ninja^F.U.B.A.R.]

The government hates what they can't control though. It grew very big very quickly and not easy to police it all, but I see it just a matter of time before governments "catch up" and lay the smack down.

[WuddaWaste]

It's an interesting thing to have a network which transcends the reach of traditional law enforcement. We've seen this time and time again. How does one create a jurisdiction which transcends international borders? Everyone wants power. Everyone wants control.

The old, traditional mentality is still focused on a physical model. They can't even grasp the idea of a global mesh network, how it's decentralized, and how it is so self-healing with multiple circumventing paths and loopholes.

I know it's a power struggle with both governments and big businesses scrambling for control. But what makes the Internet so beautiful is the very lack of that. I hope the net stays free for long enough for generations to understand that, to see the value in defending and keeping it that way, and eventually for the total expanse of human knowledge to transcend the pettiness of distrust, greed, and control.