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Re:Our statement on the results of the Jacob Appelbaum inves... by geofft on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @01:37PM (#12174860)
There are no torch-wielding mobs here. Nobody is attacking his physical person. They're excluding him from an organization.

What you are arguing is that, in the absence of a trial by a government, people have the active right to participate in an organization that doesn't want them. That goes against every bit of the ethos of a project like Tor. (And if you won't believe any other argument, keep in mind that it's not fair to him: why would the state be inclined to treat him fairly, for everything he's done to oppose the state?)

https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence

You claim there are problems among us that you need to solve. You use this claim as an excuse to invade our precincts. Many of these problems don't exist. Where there are real conflicts, where there are wrongs, we will identify them and address them by our means. We are forming our own Social Contract. This governance will arise according to the conditions of our world, not yours. Our world is different.

Re:Our statement on the results of the Jacob Appelbaum inves... by forgotpwtomain on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @01:55PM (#12175074)
> There are no torch-wielding mobs here. Nobody is attacking his physical person. They're excluding him from an organization.

I think you may have missed what the front-page of HN looked like when this was first happening. I won't bother re-quoting/linking things beyond previous discussions (since those contain the information) but your comment is entirely out-of-sync with what was happening.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11845338 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11837901

Re:Our statement on the results of the Jacob Appelbaum inves... by geofft on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @02:53PM (#12175555)
Can you be more precise about where you saw someone attack or attempt to attack his physical person?

If you're referring to the "DieJakeDie" account, I acknowledge that it existed, but it was very clear that it had no involvement with victims or (as far as anyone can tell) anyone involved in the Tor community. The integrity of the Tor process was not compromised by its existence, any more than the integrity of a government trial is compromised by protesters outside calling for blood.

Re:Our statement on the results of the Jacob Appelbaum inves... by metaphorm on Wednesday July 27, 2016 @02:26PM (#12175332)
I think you're having a pretty regrettable case of tunnel vision on this.