> can have online discussion without moderation

That's a big negatory.

>you publish on your site,

And your site gets a takedown for illegal content, or cops show up at your door and drag you out while beating you.

Life is heavily moderated in a million different ways. What we're talking about this point is just moderation or unjust moderation.

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Gareth321 4 hours ago | parent [-]

It’s hard to take down sites on Tor. Usually impossible without the full weight of the FBI/CIA. I agree with the user above: we can do decentralised communication without censorship. Of course if you start from the faulty premise that online discourse needs to occur on one of a handful of censored platforms then that’s impossible.

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cowlevel 4 hours ago | parent [-]

And so tor has a reputation of mainly being used for illegal things - because it is - and several countries just block the entire thing.

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privacyishuman 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Illegal, meaning There's laws against it, like being gay in many countries. Not morally wrong, although there is a lot of that.

	▲	ckx 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, but using Tor actually can have negative effects, such as buying illegal things, like drugs, and other things that you would want to be anonymous while buying...

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sterlind 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

even in countries where it's blocked there are ways in. Chinese users are given unlisted bridges which camouflage their traffic signal.