Paolo Cardullo: > This was an interesting discussion. > > I was just thinking of starting a thread on why people use the > appellative 'dark' as for 'dark net'. I found it quite disturbing and > offensive, also in a racialised way. > > [...] > > I strongly disagree and I suggest to drop 'dark' from TOR services. > Funny enough, only the day after the chief of London MET declared: > 'internet has become a “dark and ungoverned” space populated by > paedophiles, murderers and terrorists'. This also can be seen with a > shade of racism.
I opened a lengthy discussion about this in January: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-January/thread.html#31863 No real outcome. The name is what it is, and I think it's stuck. -- kat -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
