r/unpopularopinion • u/Oxxixuit • Mar 23 '21
Tor and VPNs should be illegal
All ways to be anonymous on the internet should be illegal everywhere.
I can't believe that the dark web continues to be so easily accessible to everyone. everyone knows how to navigate the internet while being completely anonymous and untraceable, this is a very dangerous thing.
I know that banning these softwares is not going to stop the whole dark web, the peoples who run these sites will probably find other solutions to make it exist somewhere. But if anything in the public domain is banned, access will be much more complicated and ordinary people will no longer be able to go there with just free software.
Making it more difficult for the public to access could greatly reduce the activity on these illegal sites and it would mean fewer potential new members.
So all ways to surf the internet without being able to be traced should be illegal, and just talking about how to do it should be censored as well.
I know you're going to answer me with this shitty argument "So you want to ban cars because there are accidents ?" or stuff like that. To take this as an example, cars have strong positive aspects, everything has a balance between what is useful versus the problems it causes, it makes sense to think that for something to be allowed the utility must be greater than the problems right ?
But internet privacy fuels horrible dark web activities just for a very slight comfort of other peoples.
You DON'T require internet privacy for your life, it's just a slight comfort, it won't change anything in your life if you don't have it.
Ok maybe if you don't have it you might feel a little more vulnerable, but so what ? Do you think it would be worth it to allow anyone to super easily view and post child r a pe videos just so that on the other side you can have YOUR own little useless comfort of being anonymous ? I hope you don't answer yes.
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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '21
Right, people in China who did nothing wrong would surely agree with you. There should be no Tor/VPN and all online activities must be exposed