xdsoftware
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The problem with OP's argument is that Tor has been used for legitimate purposes such as communicating with dissidents in authoritarian countries. Also, the US government actually has an interest far as I remember in keeping Tor alive. The argument overrelies on the negative elements of Tor rather than the positive usages of such and is therefore biased.This whole anti-privacy sentiment isn't anything new. It just seems that the movement is picking again with the Restrict Act. Although the arguments are different, the post from 5 years and the RA overlap in that "security" and "child safety" are used to make it sound much more beneficial than it actually is.
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What makes it really cringe aside from the arguments presented and OP's replies, is that it was posted to r/TOR...
(OP may have been a troll based on some of replies left that weren't deleted by a >R*ddit mod. And the original petition writier is a Normalfag that had no idea what they were writing, Tor is useless if a small minority in law enforcement/goverment are the only ones that are using it.)
The other problem with this argument is that it's contradictory. He says that there should be a government permit required for those who use Tor, yet then he goes ahead and says that "we should report users and operators of Tor to federal authorities."
And all of this assuming the guy does not himself has a problem with Tor that he is keeping in private.