Post #2185768

@grumble209@kolektiva.social I hope so. As you can see from my post I tend by default to think in terms of military rather than legalistic factors. As in "ISP's don't have the POWER to block pro-abortion sites so long as Tor or even one unregulated VPN provider with rotating IP addresses exists." This is a military (what can the enemy physically do) consideration every bit as much as can an enemy get bombers past a defender's air defense network or not. Same basic idea here as "the street is my courtroom." Then there is the interdependence factors on top of the military ones. Some of our assets are depended on by our opponents too. The US cannot attempt to shut down Tor without costing the US Navy the ability of their own sailors to communicate with the US without being monitored by host country governments. Same for the Army and the Air Force too. Even if they tried to replace Tor with an expansion of SIPRNET, they have another problem: the US Navy created Tor but no longer controls it, and the project is now global and in that sense bigger than they are. The code is open-source and the relays exist all over the world. Stopping Tor access to abortion sites would be like trying to prevent abortion pills from being delivered by bicycle messengers. Speaking of that, today unlike 200 years ago, as I mentioned earlier the US mail no longer has a monopoly either.