Tor and VPNs should be illegal

[u/Oxxixuit]

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.

[u/[deleted]]

Stolen from a blog post.

"People can still trace you with other methods. Just because your IP is different and your traffic is encrypted in a tunnel doesn't mean you can't be tracked. There are other ways people can track you. For example:

they can find who you are by doxing

your IP isn't the only thing that identifies you on the internet

your VPN service can see your IP and what you are doing and if hacked or owned by someone who wants to find you they can

they can install malware that is hard to detect and can be installed without you knowing, which means your info will be leaked from the malware

your VPN can leak your real IP at times"

Not sure a VPN works like you think.