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Announcing the Tor University Challenge
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this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2023
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I love me some privacy but have always been skeptical of Tor because I am afraid that I am acting as a relay for CSAM, which, even if encrypted I am not okay with.
Is that fear unfounded? To be honest I don’t really know how Tor works aside from some broad strokes.
No, by running a relay or exit node you are opting in to routing traffic that could contain CSAM. This is a problem with all anonymous unmoderated distributed systems like Tor. With Freenet, for example, you're even opting in to storing it (pieces of it in encrypted form that can't be accessed without the content hash key).
Privacy is good but so is censorship (moderation). The censorship just needs to be implemented by an accountable group of people that share the same interests of the users. Tor is trying to solve a problem that can only be solved through social struggle with institutions of power.