[tor-talk] Interesting question on Quora "Tor: Why did the US government create and continue to fund Tor?"

[Juan Garofalo]

--On Saturday, December 28, 2013 8:20 PM +1100 Peter Tonoli
<peter+tor at metaverse.org> wrote:

> There's an interesting question on Quora about Tor at the moment - "Tor:
> Why did the US government create and continue to fund Tor?", which can
> be found at
> <http://www.quora.com/Tor/Why-did-the-US-government-create-and-continue-t
> o-fund-Tor>.
> 
> So far, there are 4 answers including.. ..
> 
> "Bram Cohen, Inventor of BitTorrent -
> Many other countries have countrywide firewalls to limit what their
> citizens/residents can see of the internet. The US State Department
> views this as a bad thing and proactively promotes Tor because it's the
> tool of choice for freely browsing the internet from behind such a
> firewall, which appears to be the main use which Tor is put to."


	" The US State Department views this as a bad thing"

	Right, but that's not because of any concern with freedom of speech - the
only reason the US military see that as 'bad' is because they can't easily
spy on people living in firewalled countries. 

	Hey, aren't firewalls defensive systems?