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Just a note for those who weren't keeping track back in 'the day'
and think a project's funding source itself affects project
outcomes. Abbie Hoffman got the funding for the Cooper Square Free
Store, where Yippie!'s plans to disrupt the 1968 Democratic National
Convention were hatched, from a YMCA grant for "Youth Services".<br>
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If you're a 'revolutionary', you're a dead man on furlough anyway
and the more people use tor, the more cost-prohibitive it becomes
for 'da feds' to stalk them. I consider anti-tor sentiments to
intrinsically play into the hands of [insert evil gubmint name here]
intel agencies.<br>
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RR
"Freedom is the capacity to pause between stimulus and response." ~Rollo May</pre>
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Tor Project raises over $200,000 in attempt to “diversify” its
funding<br>
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<i>Activist group took in about $2.5M in 2014, mostly from US
government sources.</i><br>
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As a result of its recent crowdfunding campaign, the Tor Project <a
href="https://blog.torproject.org/blog/transparency-openness-and-our-2014-financials">announced</a>
Thursday that it had raised over $200,000 from more than 5,000
individuals over nearly two months.
<p>The organization also <a
href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2696858-2014-TorProject-Combined-Form990-PC-Audit-Results.html">released
its 2014 Form 990</a>, the financial document that all
nonprofits must file with the IRS.</p>
<p>As of 2014, the organization took in about <a
href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2696858-2014-TorProject-Combined-Form990-PC-Audit-Results.html#document/p17/a272897">$2.5
million</a> annually, roughly 75 percent of that coming from
grants from US government institutions such as Radio Free Asia and
the State Department.</p>
<p>Shari Steele, the new head of the Tor Project, <a
href="http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/01/going-forward-the-tor-project-wants-to-be-less-reliant-on-us-govt-funding/">told
Ars recently</a> that the organization wants to diversify its
funding and, over time, become less reliant on government sources
of income. <br>
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<blockquote type="cite">"I can't deny that there are lots of
people within the Tor community and lots of people who either
are users of Tor or would be users of Tor who are concerned
about the fact that so much of the money—or any of the money—is
coming from US government sources," she said. "But the reality
is that is where the money is coming from. And the organization
needs money in order to survive. So we're going to take this
step by step and try to expand the funding sources and then
there might be conversation about how we do things. But we're
very, very grateful for our current funding sources."</blockquote>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/01/tor-project-raises-over-200000-in-attempt-to-diversify-its-funding/">http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/01/tor-project-raises-over-200000-in-attempt-to-diversify-its-funding/</a><br>
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