On 2012-12-02 22:44, Michael Painter wrote:
Joel jaeggli wrote:
The internet is potentially quite a useful tool for getting your message out so long as using it isn't holding a gun to your own head. While we site here with the convenient idea of some legal arbitrage which allows me to do something which isn't illegal in my own domain to facilitate something that is quite illegal elsewhere, the fact of the matter is if you run a service like this you don't get to pick and choose.
In your opinion, would it make *any* kind of semse to engage in child pron AND run an exit node?
It makes a little. Last I checked (granted: years ago), a user can steer their traffic to a given exit node; by doing so, they could pick one that they know to have no internal scrutiny (i.e., by the person managing the exit node), while maintaining plausible deniability as to whether the traffic originating from that exit node was theirs, in the event of external scrutiny (as was the case here). I suspect running a middle node (not an exit, not an entrance) would provide a similar or greater degree of plausible deniability, albeit without the assurance of no internal scrutiny of the exit node. Jima