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A comment on Covid-19's Impact on the Tor Project. Parent comment

Re:Covid-19's Impact on the Tor Project by Taek on Saturday April 18, 2020 @08:15AM (#22907190)
The first thing you cut as a business looking to save as many employees as possible is your donations.
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Re:Covid-19's Impact on the Tor Project by freeflight on Saturday April 18, 2020 @09:13AM (#22907479)
Really depends, if you are big enough you can use this as a PR opportunity very similar to the Notre-Dame de Paris fire.

Lot's of news along the lines of "Company XY is doing this to help fight COVID-19!", everybody wanting to manufacture ventilators was just the most visible peak of that.

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Re:Covid-19's Impact on the Tor Project by cwhiz on Saturday April 18, 2020 @12:14PM (#22908686)
Not even the best PR company in the world could spin a donation to the TOR project as helping fight Covid-19.
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Re:Covid-19's Impact on the Tor Project by jeromegv on Saturday April 18, 2020 @10:07AM (#22907819)
Yes but as OP mentioned, if you’re about to cut employees, the PR might not be useful. Those companies getting into ventilators and switching production have lots of capital available.
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