Tor project information wars

Concerning Yasha Levine’s ‘Fact-checking the Tor Project’s Government Ties’


Please understand that this subject is far, far outside my wheelhouse, as I wouldn’t be able to parse a TorOnion (althoough I've been trying to take a crash course) from a Linux anonymizing tool, but it seems to me in these days of the current almost total lack of online privacy, this Tor information war is crucial, as in: potentially a Very Big Deal.   Given how many days it’s taken me to dig into it, I was ready several time to give it all up in surrender.  So Consider this another PSA, if you will; and feel free to weigh in with your opinions and expertise.  I’ll bring links to Levine’s detractors, all written before he’d received his FOIAed documents; so yes, he must have called out ‘Tor’s deeply conflicted ties to the regime change wing of the U.S. government’ many times earlier.  Both are long, long reads, and as this is so long already, I won’t feature what seem to be the pithiest parts, but invite you to read them instead.  Levine’s invited journalists and historians to dig into the documents to see what they find documented in them.