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Writing on FB using Tor kind of defeats the purpose, no?



Maybe you are trying to hide your physical location.


This. And perhaps even your whole identity.

The world is so different place in unsafe countries, people might be playing with their lives(and lives of their close ones) for doing this stuff. It's not unlikely for a totalitarian government to assassinate opposition, to physically kill activists. You say that's wrong, but I ask whatcha gonna do about it?

Lets let them use TOR.


If you're on facebook under a false identity you can and will be kicked off more-or-less at random whenever you happen to trip the right flags.


Sure, and this is most probably an expected possibility, but also the only way to operate safely. Exposing your name and your political stance along with activism can get you killed.

Of course the reliance on US based(of all Western countries) company through which all the stuff gets organized and through which the communications happen might have to be questioned -- but the status quo is that there are no viable alternatives and it's very unlikely to change due to the nature of the market.




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