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1/ If you want to do one little thing to support @torproject - one tiny thing - you can help shape how people think about Tor.

Here's how:
2/ About 5 years ago I was editing a blogpost* for Facebook, announcing the Facebook onion, and I realised that I had written a negative sentence - which is *bad* comms style - so I changed it to be a positive one instead:

"[ NOTE: link will only work in Tor-enabled browsers ]"
3/ The converse is far more prevalent - a form of "othering", it trips off the keyboards of journalists far too easily, including (I regret) my friends @BBCNews regarding their own shiny, new Onion:

"…this web address will not work in a regular web browser."
4/ If we want the security value proposition of Onion Networking to become widely available, we must politely correct people who treat it as "weird" rather than "special" or "advanced" or "more powerful than usual".

In other words: correct people who think like this:
5/ Words matter; so tell your friends:

- Tor is an advanced capability.

- Other browsers are catching up with it.

- Maybe someday most browsers will be able to use Tor.

- After all, that's how HTTPS got started.
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