"I should have been clearer as to why I suggested contacting these organization. Obtaining funds is, of course, a good possibility, but even more important: We want to be able to demonstrate why the whole TOR arrangement is rotten and corrupt. Some of the organizations donating to TOR are merely carrying the Feds' water, but a few might not be. Put yourself in their place: Do they currently have an opportunity to support anonymized communication, other than TOR? If they don't, let's give it to them. "
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"What would a 6,000 node replacement for TOR cost? Multiply by one-time cost of about $80 for the node hardware, and that's about $480,000. If we could get a $20 monthly subsidy for Internet service for each node, that's $120,000 per month, or $1.44 million per year. About one third of TOR. (Such a subsidy would pay for an upgrade from a typical 40 Mbits/second node with limited monthly data, to a 1 Gigabit service with unlimited data. Many people would jump on the bandwagon just for this perk.)"
"I want to contact these organizations, more to establish the ones who would FAIL to help us. We can use such a list for fundraising. We can say, "These organizations supported TOR for an unknown reason, but when they were given the opportunity to fund a true competitor to TOR, they punted and wouldn't help us. Doesn't that tell you something about why they support(ed) TOR?" "