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by elcapitan 3627 days ago
How is a scheduled shutdown (2016-08-31) a "torpedoing"?
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The Register, in the tradition of British rags, uses somewhat hyperbolic/clickbaity headlines. You'll note that torpedoing isn't used in the copy, just the heading.

I agree, though; for someone who (a) is a volunteer and (b) is doing it because he dislikes the direction of the organization, this is a remarkably civil disentangling.

Yeah, people need to keep in mind that the sites slogan is "biting the hand that feeds IT". After all, it is the current home of the BOFH series.
It is Alliterative

  Tor Torpedoes Tonga
Perhaps they could've even gone further

  Top Torian Torpedoes Tonga Tech
"VoilĂ ! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate."
I'm afraid I read this in the voice of Pontius Pilate from the Life of Brian...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ik0cqxJElqA

In Timultaneous Texit?
It's the Register, they're a tabloid. Though giving one month's notice of shutting down a major and as far as I can tell unique part of the Tor infrastructure is pretty major.