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Your argument sounds a lot like "criminals will always find a way, no point in gun control." The thing is, that argument can be applied to all laws. Why even have laws? Criminals will always find a way.

Look, I agree that anonymity is important. I agree that the world is better if some things are kept absolutely private, from everyone, to whatever extent is possible. But let's not pretend that there aren't trade-offs.

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Of course there are tradeoffs. But the price of a free society is that some people will abuse these freedoms.

I wish these values were more popular.

> "criminals will always find a way, no point in gun control"

You could partially refute this argument by claiming that gun control is hard to ignore or bypass (although not that hard, speaking as someone who knows a fair amount about fabrication and guns).

On the other hand, this argument ported over to Tor doesn't make any sense; if Tor intentionally cripples its functionality, criminals will move over to non-crippled solutions like I2P. The best you can hope for is to mildly and temporarily inconvenience criminals while really hurting innocent people who need Tor.

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