<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 18.12.2009, at 12:50, Błażej Kaczorowski wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hello,<br><br>We need a little international attencion about one Polish PM and newspaper. He asked out ministry of "Internal Affairs and Administration" about pedofiles that uses TOR networks to get anonymity. Here (<a href="http://www.krzysztofbrejza.pl/?id=209">http://www.krzysztofbrejza.pl/?id=209</a>). He wanted to know if there is some way to forbid to use TOR in Poland fe.<br> <br>This question was published as link on our national digg site (<a href="http://wykop.pl">wykop.pl</a>) - 110k registerd users, 2,5mln users, 33 mln views. This question received a lot on commnets about stupidity of this idea and a lot of sarcastic notes and quips. I've also had written a comment about it using ironic idea to send some pictures to MP is some1 have some. here: (<a href="http://www.wykop.pl/link/270224/uzywasz-tor-a-no-to-po-zrobi-z-ciebie-pedofila">http://www.wykop.pl/link/270224/uzywasz-tor-a-no-to-po-zrobi-z-ciebie-pedofila</a>) - "you use TOR - we will make you PEDOFILE"<br> <br>Yeterday big national newspaper written article that TOR users and <a href="http://wykop.pl">wykop.pl</a> users are threatening PM, wants to kill him and he is afraid of his family security and wants to receive safeguards to protect him. The article is suggestiong that users of <a href="http://wykop.pl">wykop.pl</a> and TOR are pedofiles or support pedofile activities. here (<a href="http://www.rp.pl/artykul/17,407210.html">http://www.rp.pl/artykul/17,407210.html</a>) "PM on a scope of pedofiles". Funny stuff is that one of comments in this article taken by journalist from <a href="http://wykop.pl">wykop.pl</a> is my own :)<br> <br>I have written mail to newspaper to ask them if they realy want to say that my comment has something to do with pedofile activities and why the post articles that accuse (indirectly) 2,5mln polish internet users that they support pedofile.<br> <br>I received an answer that she know better if my comment was sarcastic or not and that it is pedofile frendly comment :P<br></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Hello, </div><br><div>Is'nt it that there is a clarification beeath that article on RP.pl you link to, that states that it is not meant to "go after all wykop.pl users, but just after the three that are cited in the article? In that case it is difficult to say, that they are after 2.5 mln polish internet users...</div><div><br></div><div>As far as I understand the comments cited in the RP article, they suggest to send out some child pornography pictures anonymously (to the mailbox of mr. Krzysztof Brejza ?) - such suggestions are indeed pedophile friendly, and it is difficult to see it in a different light. </div><div><br></div><div>so taken the clarification of RP they are only fighting against TOR - this is bad enough, but since most "digital immigrants" do not know what TOR is and what it can be used for I would suggest to try and educate people about the positive aspects of TOR - like fighting censorship in China and Iran. </div><div><br></div><div>In Germany the Bavarian branch of the Pirate Party is operating a large anonymity JonDonym server similar to TOR - https://piratenpartei-bayern.de/Anonymisierungsserver , the Hesse brach is setting up an TOR-Exit Server <a href="http://wiki.piratenpartei.de/Landesverband_Hessen/Tor_Exit_Node">http://wiki.piratenpartei.de/Landesverband_Hessen/Tor_Exit_Node</a> </div><div>as an important action to support anonymity in internet and to fight censorship. </div><div><br></div><div>I can make contact to the people involving in operations / set up of this servers, if you like.</div><div><br></div><div>best regards, Gregory Engels</div><div>Germany </div><div><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>