Yeah, one of the complete bullshit things. I get around 200 emails per day like this one:

Protocol: BITTORRENT

This should tend to diminish when you begin creating and showing people how to use filesharing and distributed storage protocols operating entirely within the various encrypted anonymous overlay and storage networks that exist out there. Talking "Privacy" and "Freedom" is hardly enough to get any percentage of various communities migrating inside and safely using these networks, nor to get much change in the world, you have to show them how to use real world apps over those nets. The *years* of anti speech and dis enablement from Tor about agnostic Bittorrent in particular has no doubt hindered some onionification et al of same. So you get that many more bullshit emails and leave lots of unprotected non private and un free peoples still out hanging using clearnet.

I run into this all the time whilst proselytizing for Tor, as for example at a local non-profit makerspace recently. "Kiddie porn! FBI raids!" was the hue and cry, whereupon people's brains shut down. But this is very much a public relations issue

Jacob Appelbaum has some great presentations and arguments made very much in the public free speech space mentioning and addressing some of what you speak of. You should look them up on youtube. Move to tor-talk to discuss more. Obligatory PJDU... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW3PFC86UNI

I mentioned [Tor] to a parent.

The conversation quickly devolved into worry and fear advising me to stop running it, to be honest now that I think about it from her perspective I can't blame her for thinking like this. However the responses and explanations from my end never hit the mark, I know why I'm doing it I know their might be risks but that I'm doing something that I believe in.

Have you guys/gals ever faced situations similar to this? How did you handle it?

Secondly she also raised the following question: 'if you don't do it somebody else will, so why do you put yourself at risk?

Thirdly she detected from the conversation that a [node] might not be free from legal issues and I can't say that this is not the case, but I do think her view of these issues is utmost grim bringing up my future and employment opportunities. How would do you view/explain the severity of these legal issues?