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		prophesi 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Many countries that said no to ChatControl in 2024... Wasn't TOR originally funded by the CIA as well?

hollerith 7 months ago [–]

No, the Naval Research Laboratory. The Navy wanted to give its researchers and strategists a way to look stuff up on the web without anyone's being able to see what they were looking up.

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