Hi, Sorry for my bad English. We live in a country somewhere and teach (and learn) how to use secure tools in events like Cryptoparties. However we have the feeling that there is not a good online community support. Some groups use stuff like Signal, WhatsApp to keep in touch where you need to use real cellphone number, with no anonimity.
So we have this idea of building an online forum hosted on an onion service where you newbies can ask questions in anonymous way. So when you teach someone about online privacy and anonymity tools and they have, at least, a Tor Browser and bookmarked the onion address there would be a place where they can ask questions without revealing their identity. I write this email because there might be people that have done something similar. So we have some ideas and would like to have comments from you guys. We think there should be a minimum set of rules or guidelines: - Stay on topic. - Be nice with others - Do not use your realname (we should remain anonymous) - What about moderation for those who not respect this (or the guidelines we decide to use to join the community). - For instance: someone wants to buy drugs and decide to use the forum to ask the question in anonymouse way. We don't have problem with that, but this is not the purpose of the forum. - Someone post personal info about someone. Should we delete that? How to decide what should be deleted and what not? Does doing the moderation should use real names we should stay anonymous? - There should be no need to register to make a question, however we believe we should encourage people to open anonymous mails to have an account (maybe no need for email I guess it depends on forum software) - We also believe that this is an opportunity to learn how to use pseudonymous and have alternative identities not tight to our real life. To many intelligence agency and corporations getting in our lives. - Any recommendation for forum software? We where thinking something like discourse (https://www.discourse.org/) Any recommendation? - Should those behind the platform should remain anonymous or should reveal their identity? We live in 'democratic' countries where online anonymity is not well understand, but is not illegal. Might not be like this in the future and governments are starting to attack online anonymity. - We want to make a friendly 'dark web', so that we can show that even do anonymity can be abuse, it is important for a free society. Thank You! -- 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