Author: phobos Date: 2011-10-21 17:41:02 +0000 (Fri, 21 Oct 2011) New Revision: 25179
Modified: website/trunk/about/en/torusers.wml Log: remove the VISTA text from the tor users page, as that app was pending, and never granted.
Modified: website/trunk/about/en/torusers.wml =================================================================== --- website/trunk/about/en/torusers.wml 2011-10-21 03:55:40 UTC (rev 25178) +++ website/trunk/about/en/torusers.wml 2011-10-21 17:41:02 UTC (rev 25179) @@ -227,17 +227,15 @@ write were to get back to your boss, would you lose your job? If your social worker read about your opinion of the system, would she treat you differently? Anonymity gives a voice to the voiceless. - To support this, <strong>Tor currently has an open Americorps/VISTA position</strong> pending. This - government grant will cover a full time stipend for a volunteer to create - curricula to <strong>show low-income populations how to use anonymity online for - safer civic engagement</strong>. Although it's often said that the poor do not use - online access for civic engagement, failing to act in their self-interests, - it is our hypothesis (based on personal conversations and anecdotal - information) that it is precisely the “permanent record ” - left online that keeps many of the poor from speaking out on the Internet. - We hope to show people how to engage more safely online, and then at - the end of the year, evaluate how online and offline civic engagement has - changed, and how the population sees this continuing into the future. + Although it's often said that the poor do not use online access + for civic engagement, failing to act in their self-interests, it + is our hypothesis (based on personal conversations and anecdotal + information) that it is precisely the “permanent record + ” left online that keeps many of the poor from speaking out + on the Internet. We hope to show people how to engage more safely + online, and then at the end of the year, evaluate how online and + offline civic engagement has changed, and how the population sees + this continuing into the future. </li> </ul>