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by ultramancool 3656 days ago
Last I checked the Tor developers don't own the entire privacy community.

That said, yes, they do lend a lot of legitimacy to this claim, but it just concerns me that no one has publicly put their name on a rape allegation and nothing has been taken up legally.
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mordocai 3656 days ago
Why is a rape allegation needed? A history of sexual harassment, rape or not, is enough for me to kick someone out of any community I'm a part of.

There's the problem of false accusations, but I think there is enough "evidence" with this many coming forward (and many non-anonymously) and that Tor kicked him out too.

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ultramancool 3656 days ago
I certainly agree with your basic grounds, but there's a rape allegation needed when people are willing to spray paint "a rapist lives here" on your home.
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mordocai 3656 days ago
Which I don't see anyone doing? Maybe in some other article/blog post but in the one here I see accusations of harassment and brief mentions that others are accusing of rape.
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ultramancool 3656 days ago
Someone literally did that.

https://contraspin.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/mc1.png

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mordocai 3656 days ago
I wasn't aware of that, and that was wrong.

However, the blog post discussed here nor anyone in the thread has suggested that that should be done so I'm confused why you are fixated on it.

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chaz72 3656 days ago
I find the way you argue very frustrating. I respond to "This is a great way to make sure you have an unjust community wherein no one has the opportunity to defend themselves and speaking ill of someone is enough to evict them." by saying "It's a community they lead, they get to decide who is welcome." but then you shift the goalposts.

You slide right past my assertion that the Tor community must be able to decide who is welcome in the Tor community and refer to a nebulous "privacy community" now. Is the "privacy community" even at issue? I don't know what that is. If there is a group called the "privacy community", then yes, I agree, they should decide who is welcome in their club.

As far as I know, he's not being prosecuted. The only rights he acquires from not being prosecuted are that he won't go to jail. Right? He doesn't have any automatic right to join my club, your club, or the Tor community's club.

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pyrale 3655 days ago
What Isis Lovecruft describes in her piece very much looks like rape to me.
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