[tor-talk] Hidden services mostly contains legal content

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Wed Jun 19 08:25:44 UTC 2013


> I wrote a blog post about the content published in the Tor network:
>
> http://torrorists.wordpress.com/2013/06/19/tor-network-provides-almost-only-legal-content/

>From similar statistical work, I concur with this general assesment.
I do see about 20% more onions online. Though the actual content
of onionland is not within scope, I would guesstimate a somewhat
higher 'have [ever] shared ... on purpose' count. And mixed in with
the recent influx of drug/bitcoin/product scam splashpages are a
few historically legitimate non-marketplace-based merchants (a now
antique model). Though a lot of the content is technically legal
(the lens of free speech or subject to jurisdictional variation /
reach), there are few free speech zones on the clearnet that would
put up with the complaints.


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