Since Edward Snowden stepped into the limelight from a hotel room in Hong Kong three years ago, use of the Tor anonymity network has grown massively. Journalists and activists have embraced the anonymity the network provides as a way to evade the mass surveillance under which we all now live, while citizens in countries with restrictive Internet censorship, like Turkey or Saudi Arabia, have turned to Tor in order to circumvent national firewalls. Law enforcement has been less enthusiastic, worrying that online anonymity also enables criminal activity...
For a dissident or journalist worried about a visit from the secret police, de-anonymisation could mean arrest, torture, or death.
Without anonymity, democracy crumbles-source arstechnica
Anonymity is the basis of true freedom of speech, if technologies to facilitate it improve freedom can be protected from those who would seek to curtail it. That is, freedom of expression can be guaranteed without the possibility of hostile reprisal. And it is this the free exchange of ideas that guides the evolution of human culture towards a higher state of being. The few corrupt and unfit leaders attempting to derail the process of man's ascent into a more perfect society, they are like malignant cancer cells, they're a threat towards human society and human well-being.
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