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How exactly does that cater to only one side of the political spectrum?

It sounds like they're complaining about this blog post, where the Tor project disavows use of their software by neo-Nazis, child pornographers, and other assorted deplorable people: https://blog.torproject.org/tor-project-defends-human-rights...

So instead of "one side of the political spectrum" more like, "a few standard deviations away from the center of the political spectrum".

Three standard deviations from center leaves you with just the 0.15% on either end.

If Tor is to remain as an acceptable thing to run and use, the Tor Project can't outwardly espouse ideology that drives away the normal users that allow Tor users to blend together. Those browsing Tumblr over Tor, shitposting on Reddit, watching YouTube, etc are key to retain so as to normalize the use of the Tor Browser Bundle.

They're disavowing 0.15% of users.

And even so, note that that is not the same as blocking 0.15% of users, which is impossible.

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