-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This was an interesting discussion.
I was just thinking of starting a thread on why people use the appellative 'dark' as for 'dark net'. I found it quite disturbing and offensive, also in a racialised way. For example I have recently had this argument on Twitter with the author of this journal article: Gehl, Robert W. 2014. “Power/freedom on the Dark Web: A Digital Ethnography of the Dark Web Social Network.” New Media & Society, October, 1461444814554900. doi:10.1177/1461444814554900. His reply was that 'dark' only means 'out of light', where 'light' is obviously monitoring Google & co. I strongly disagree and I suggest to drop 'dark' from TOR services. Funny enough, only the day after the chief of London MET declared: 'internet has become a “dark and ungoverned” space populated by paedophiles, murderers and terrorists'. This also can be seen with a shade of racism. The full report of this is here: http://tiny.cc/i4ybpx (sorry for the ranting) P On 13/11/14 17:26, Mike Tigas wrote: > I already often refer to www hidden services as “onion sites” when > introducing people to Tor, since that coincides with the one > user-facing attribute they have: the .onion TLD. Much less jargony > for non-technical users, and (as already noted) less ambiguous > about what exactly is "hidden". > > Still not sure how I feel about non-www hidden services. For XMPP, > IRC, SSH, and other uses, I still generally say "hidden service". > > But +1 for "onion site" or something like it. > > Mike Tigas News Applications Developer, ProPublica > http://www.propublica.org/ @mtigas | https://mike.tig.as/ | > 0x6E0E9923 > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJUZoNMAAoJEKSEncKClt5gRt4QAMY8fHuwaUJnzdG7bCcvhThW 65v93oqKDWCDAxJbNJZY1znh5f5b7289Css599DCwBVszXi1g2JeVOL0yYTdZe7S 5L8WUb81zseVRRfiBJjAYpOTd/ZIaarz7G/nIto45ByUd+ubv3UVnMljBEfaWs64 E6Wi21WXaofu5aoOpd7gh/LeAy6IGhz2zyLOAkUYDSs+LjIjKefw6TW5KDBNb8OT J6mTjUo72p4Wh7iZOYLN17AQqkJM2QJjfi+nXmkKiyPa30Q/Wyu/FTmCvGTddnUD vXYMmqx0LDGIl9iEsVktzuRRMiWFKYAp9BKdABmJqqOe14k0MWOI5RsiPIrH8DS+ y3iWpgtdgbNxr/ZHe8jKFf/cPEtvXREN1ZnMmhonBlQcAFpFACvfuDKOpSPESyRq sNL9yVf3633QnKzO6Rn/JppYkuERn1vnl6D5yQvDZfCvVE3pQETaga71vFdc0O4A xBuZoe+13nGqr+3MUTs+xYhdb18z02rB7BKXD+SNxJ2W318UNWaLTg15dymXal5i oeZMIuImUi7VMUY1kmsLoHbY+s072bbHUGA/Xknr9xFhnreEKr+rG6stwV1tD5tp 1MUzQ2YhNq6tOg6R38kMs2jywv6DODB7xU8VqtFqqOCRD+pso0I3wQmJv7nlLLHu 8rrbD1tRdwc9jwUGol/+ =Vmqr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk